Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

My wood guy dumped off our cord of winter wood a couple of weeks ago so I spent this beautiful Vermont Saturday morning performing the annual ritual of moving the wood pile from the side of the house to the back, then stacking it into 2 rows.  Below ... [More]

I was wondering why it was so quiet this week and no one was speaking to me, but now I know the answer. I discovered tonight when I updated my blog to BlogEngine.NET 1.4 on returning from the beach Sunday I forgot to restore an essential Community Server ... [More]

Another year, another week at Holden Beach, North Carolina comes to an end.  I was unexpectedly able to remain in touch with the world from our beachfront rental through the kindness of a friendly motorola router somewhere on the block.  As in a... [More]

I read and talk about online social networks, but when you're in a difficult situation, like, say, when you drive your car into a ditch at 10 o'clock at night, you appreciate the wonder of real world social support networks.  Tonight my little girl a... [More]

In case there was anyone out there other than me who enjoys scrolling through the Stylin screen pics and wants another way to quickly get there, I added a second access point to them tonight.  (I blogged about the BE.NET particulars of the Stylin scr... [More]

Another cool Associates widget from Amazon, Product Preview Popups.  It's the first Amazon script I've used on my blog.  You can see the Preview Popups in action on my "Amazon Burst Buy" post.  Mouseover popups have several obvious advantag... [More]

I buy books from Amazon in burst mode. I sprinkle my wish list with interesting books over the span of a few months and then I usually buy between 6 and 8 of them. It was about time for another purchase.  And besides, I've been spending a lot of qual... [More]

One of the photo feeds that has replaced the Flickr Donuts feed that I had to drop is \\Static.  I particularly enjoy their "Misc Pics of the Day" series.  I have no idea where they come up with their photos.  Some aren't exactly rated "G" ... [More]

I am very happy to announce the release of DBVT2008, the dawn of a new era at dbvt.com.  The biggest difference you'll find in DBVT2008 is no "Powered by [anything Telligent]" logos anywhere.  That's right.  No Community Server.  No Gr... [More]

I'm putting a web site up for my sister who makes beautiful quilts.  I decided to use Expression Web and for her blog, BlogEngine.Net.  I've got more to say about BlogEngine.Net (the more I use it, the more I like it!), but that's another post. ... [More]