Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

Man, I've been getting so tired of those losers who try to boost their SEO rating by squirting their comments on my blogs like some disgusting bodily function.  You know the ones, "I was very interested to know this information about you, and I ... [More]

I started working on something else in Sueetie this fine Sunday morning when observing the lack of integrated BlogEngine.NET Avatars bugged me enough to get it out of the way.  YetAnotherForum.NET avatars are integrated into the Sueetie framework, so... [More]

Nothing like a substantial upgrade of your website to lift your spirits.  This afternoon I put an upgraded version of DBVT.COM online that is now running BlogEngine.NET 1.5 and Gallery Server Pro 2.2.3402.  I also wrapped the site in the latest ... [More]

Sueetie Member Following is complete for BlogEngine.NET post authors and commenters.  While implementation of member following for, say, YetAnotherForum.NET will be somewhat different than member following for BlogEngine.NET, I like to write up the d... [More]

I announced Sueetie Friends and Favorites yesterday, demonstrating how members will be able to follow blog post authors and commenters as well as tag posts and comments as favorites.  Thinking ahead to displaying and managing BlogEngine.NET blog favo... [More]

As I said before, I don’t get spam with BlogEngine.NET.  Never have.  Yet lately I’ve been starting to see Busby SEO comments popping up.  Deleting them gets old fast so I decided to get Chris Blankenship’s Comment Blacklist Extension for B... [More]

The BlogEngine.NET integration DIFF Source is now on CodePlex and setup documentation on the Sueetie Wiki.  BlogEngine.NET’s flexible configuration options made Sueetie Community integration a simple affair.  What was interesting about integrati... [More]

I've been asked about the Social Bookmarking widget I added to my BlogEngine.NET blog.  I wanted to give this to you along with a few instructions.  To be clear, very little of the widget is mine, so I'm more like passing it along instead of giv... [More]

Supporting Multiple Master Pages in BlogEngine.NET is quite simple.  An example of a master page at dbvt.com different from my primary master page, i.e. with a different sidebar, is the Contact Page. To get started we're going to make a couple of cha... [More]

It was important for me to upgrade DBVT.COM/BLOG from BlogEngine.NET 1.4 to 1.45 as soon as possible so I could focus on other Open Source Online Community application pursuits in the queue.  This weekend presented a window of opportunity to upgrade ... [More]