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About Drew Meyers
Drew Meyers currently runs ESM Exec Designs, a design shop specializing in corporate and personal blog design. Travel addict managing Oh Hey World, a travel blog focused on generation X & Y, and real estate technology enthusiast. In his free time, Drew enjoys reading, traveling the world, spending time with passionate people, and is active member of the microfinance community.
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
My Blog is Undergoing a Facelift
This blog design by Cory Miller has served me well for the past 4 years, but it’s time for a total facelift. Site redesign in process…forgive the errors over the next couple hours. And leave a comment here with whatever bugs you find if you wish.
Automatic Location Suggestions & Tagging — a Genius Strategic Move by Facebook
We all know Facebook is the largest photo site on the internet. Why? Because they figured out how to tag photos with the people in those photos. The other, and next, holy grail of photos is tagging every photo with the location it was taken with. Why? Because it’s makes them infinitely more findable/browsable, and usable in other applications via an API. It gives those photos added context. Facebook has pulled location tagging off marvelously — they’ve figured out how to suggest locations to tag photos to. Look at the following screen shot. Uploaded with Skitch! The absolute genius move they made? It’s ONE CLICK to say either yes or no to tag an entire … Continue reading
Uncovering Your “Hidden” Inbox in Facebook
Katie Lance at Inman Next put together a great video showing you how to uncover your “hidden” inbox in Facebook. In addition to messages directed at only you, there may be “hidden” messages posted on your business pages to uncover as well. For agents, hidden messages mean potential leads that you are missing out on. I checked my own hidden inbox and found a few legitimate messages that I just responded to, in addition to a whole bunch of other messages that were indeed SPAM. … Read More » Continue reading
Music Makes a Difference with Our Youth
Music can indeed make a difference in the lives of our youth. This baby’s actions say Notorious BIG rocks. [via Dominic Morrocco at M Squared Real Estate]
#retechchat Transcript – Building the Perfect Landing Page
The topic of last night’s #retechchat was Building the Perfect Landing Page. Here is the text transcript that I saved for those who want to read through the entire discussion: Download it HERE (best to use TextEdit on a Mac from what I hear).
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Step 2 of Custom Website Redesign – The Design Mock Up
Step 2 of a custom website redesign (or brand new design) is for a graphic designer to turn the wireframe into a finished design file that looks exactly like the finished site. Since my good friend Brandon Matson at BizGarden redesigned my site for me, we spent considerable time over the past few days going back [...] Continue reading
Zillow Mortgage Data Live on AOL Real Estate
Having championing distribution of Zillow Mortgage Marketplace heavily while I was working there, THIS NEWS that mortgage rates on AOL real estate are now powered by Zillow makes me very happy. Congrats to the team for getting this deal done. I know Nate Moch is one happy camper right now. Safe to say, I still bleed green and blue — and speaking of that, I think need a REALLY sweet ass Z t shirt, or a “Z” patch for my backpack *hint hint*.
