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Mike is a former Mortgage Banker, Mortgage Broker turned "Tech Geek" who specializes in Social Media Consulting. He is a builder of engaging Custom Facebook Business Pages, blogs and social media engagement plans for his clients. Mike writes AreWeConnected.com, a blog dealing with social media and technology as it pertains towards real estate. He publishes articles in the San Francisco Examiner and the BusinessWeek Exchange. AreWeConnected is listed in Alltop and ranked by AdAge. He has been interviewed and quoted in articles for BankRate, Scripps, the San Jose Mercury News and others, (including the front page of The Wall Street Journal for writing mortgage related Haikus)

Thesis broke my WP 3.0!

by Mike Mueller on 8:21 am June 21, 2010

Or was it the other way around? photo credit: thisisbossi Ether way if you clicked that highly seductive “automatic upgrade” and installed 3.0 over your Thesis theme you may now have issues. Ive seen some where the blog won’t load. I’ve seen some where various dashboard items won’t load. The culprit seems to be this thing called “codepress” that still lives in certain files. Here’s an actual error code one of my thesis sites had undefined function use_codepress() in /public_html/wp-content/themes/thesis_16/lib/admin/admin.php  on line 42 And here’s … Read More »

REBarCamp in a Wine Bar?

by Mike Mueller on 11:53 pm June 9, 2010

That’s where REBarCamp Sacramento was held. When Tamara Dorris reached out to me asking if it was possible to put together a REBarCamp in a month I said sure!  I told he I would be happy to build and host the Blog, build the Facebook Page and handle all the technical details.  (she thought I was doing all the hard stuff!) My friend Jeremy at 210 Consulting donated the artwork for the logo and we were off to the races!  All she had to do … Read More »

Facebook throws a scare at the small business owner

by Mike Mueller on 5:00 am May 21, 2010

Once upon a time…  as in yesterday The mighty Facebook decided in it’s infinite wisdom to eliminate the ability for a Facebook Page to set a landing tab for new visitors.  This is critical to many page owners as the preferred landing tab can convert the casual visitor to what was formerly called Fans, now called “Like”. This was not the case for every page, if you happened to have over 10,000 “likes” (fans) you could still set your tabs… <yeah, right> Upon hearing the … Read More »

REBarCamp Phoenix and Foursquare

by Mike Mueller on 7:30 am April 7, 2010

photo credit: Sirinyay If you are coming to REBarCamp/Phoenix, (and why not?) here’s your chance to connect with others on the increasingly popular social network http://foursquare.com Personally, I joined a while back and then didn’t do anything with it.  Since SXSW I’ve been experimenting with different ways to use it and connect to people I know and those I haven’t met yet.  I can’t wait for the 4sq session at BarCamp! Like any good social network they make it easy to find those using the service … Read More »

How to AutoFollow Everyone and still pay attention

by Mike Mueller on 7:27 pm April 1, 2010

The following is just my personal opinion.  How you use Twitter is entirely up to you and as far as I’m concerned, you are right. With that said, assuming you are in sales, or in the “engagement” business I believe in the AutoFollow.  I set mine up in using SocialOomph.com so that anytime someone follows me I automatically follow them back. I know what your going to say… Are you crazy?  Won’t you get a ton of spam?  Aren’t you worried about those nutjobs?  Don’t … Read More »

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