We are Mike Giese and Don Cornelius. We have been friends and computer partners since 1983. We wrote some mortgage tracking software which is used by companies in Bay County. That was written in 'C' programming language. We sold the source code to that software years ago but the company that bought it still sells it today. We have taken classes in Fortran, Cobal, dBase III Plus, Basic, Assembly, MS Excel, MS Access and more. We have been involved with online computer usage since each of us were running Computer BBSes in the early 80s. We have been on the Internet almost since the beginning.

Don has been involved with mortgage companies and real estate since the late 1980s. He became a REALTOR® in 1994 but was already consulting with a local real estate company in 1992 when the Bay County Association of REALTORS® took it's first steps into using computers for the MLS. That first system was called Request. He first served on the MLS Committee in 1998 when BCAR switched to an Internet based MLS database. Two years later he became the MLS Chairman as the Committee took on the task of finding and eventually switching to a new MLS vendor. That vendor is Solid Earth Geographics. BCAR is nearing the end of that 3 year contract. Don is still on the MLS Committee for his 6th year and serving his 3rd year on the BCAR Board of Directors.

Mike started working for a large grocery chain here in Bay County, right out of high school. Over 20 years later he has earned the respect of his company by being the Store Director of many stores in many cities. He came back to Panama City to be closer to his home town and family but still works for the same company. Over the years the passion for computers has given him the desire to take many computer classes and driven him to find many ways to use the computer in his business. Most recently he started DM Webhosting and is the Founder and President. The first products he offered were web sites for churches, so that he could help his own church to get on the web. It didn't take long though to make real estate sites the company focus.

Other services DM Webhosting provides to BCAR is the hosting, design and upkeep of Bay.FLRealtor.Net; Postal Porter email service; Occassional onsite computer services such as upgrading system operating systems. Our next task will be to design the online database interface for BCAR members to sign up for all Continuing Education Classes. This will allow for 24 hour sign up as well as making it easier for the Career Development Chairman and other BCAR Staff to maintain a record of who has attended what classes, how well each class was attended and how many are signed up for an upcoming class. All of this will be able to be accomplished through the internet.