Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

Competition For One. Excellent ideas in this New York Times piece on PayPal founder Peter Thiel in The Creative Monopoly. We often shouldn’t seek to be really good competitors. We should seek to be really good monopolists. Instead of being slightly b... [More]

Is Facebook making us all the same? That's the lead in a Six Pixels of Separation article which includes other choice sound bites like "It's a Facebook world, and we're all just living in it," and "There's the Internet... and there's the Fa... [More]

After nearly six months away, I am back in Big Everyman mode to share links I find interesting and of value. Some of the links may seem a bit dated as we catch up, but hopefully you’ll find that they are still worthy of Everyman reflection. Influencers... [More]

Where a Website Fits. MarketingProfs post on website development myths, like web hosting should cost $5, maintaining a website is simple, and traffic is king. The most insightful statement to me was, “Web developers must not only know how to create the si... [More]

Death by Facebook. Jay Baer describes three ways Facebook is killing your website. This is definitely something affecting my business of building and customizing online communities, especially in this tough economy. Small businesses aren’t investing in th... [More]

Your Own Race. An Illuminated Mind post on lessons learned from one year of self employment. “Effectiveness is the name of the game when you’re self employed.” I couldn’t agree more. Quality is a given, but productivity is Job #1.  There’s too much t... [More]

Website Do-overs. Excellent MarketingProfs article on things to consider on your next website, but also worth considering for existing websites that should be thinking “do-over.” Points to consider include looking at your customers’ needs more than what y... [More]

Micro magazines for a fast and specific world. Seth Godin discusses the allure of micro magazines, describing weeklies like Time and Newsweek as being slow and general, while in contrast the world is fast and specific. Godin lists why micro magazines refl... [More]

Bill Knew Better. I’m sure you found all of the press about Steve Jobs killing off non-Apple development platforms like Flash and MonoTouch on Apple OS4 devices as interesting as I have. Two of the most educational articles (along with their many good com... [More]

The Holistic Web. One of those must-read-all-the-way-through Smashing Magazine articles, Holistic Web Browsing Trends of the Future. Its four major themes are 1) web browsers approaching operating systems in sophistication, 2) functionally-limited mo... [More]