Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

Sinofsky does Windows 8. This is probably the seminole article to date on why Windows 8 Metro was born and Microsoft’s goals for the Metro user experience.  From Steven Sinofsky, the President of Windows and Windows Live Division. A number of both hi... [More]

Second Screening. Another new term to describe how we’re using mobile technologies.  Second screening.  Love that. Not too long ago, consumers had one screen in front of them at a time, and it was either a PC, or a standard television set. Now, ... [More]

Mobile and Web as One. A title worth remembering from We Are Social. "Mobile is not a Separate Platform." Exciting possibilities, making our lives as app developers both more interesting and complicated. One barrier is that mobile is still seen ... [More]

Future Social. A We Are Social SlideShare on digital developments shaping the future of marketing in social media. Topics discussed include developments in Mobile Social, Baked-in Social, Curation and Funneling, Social "Nicheworks," and Influenc... [More]

On a Post PC Era. Four interesting takeaways from this Forbes article on the Post PC Era and how it differs from today. 1) In the past, we sat at a desk or a laptop to work and access information. In the post-pc area, computing lives all around us. 2) The... [More]

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]

First Visit. FeverBee with his usual good community advice, advocating first visit engagement for new members. The next page immediately after registration should be a discussion or activity members can participate in with other members. They do this and ... [More]

Gamification: More Than a Game. Some good takeaways on Gamification from an interview with marketing firm Big Door CEO Keith Smith. Websites want to reward their users and say thank you for engaging. And they want to recognize you when you are a fan of a ... [More]

Windows 8 App Parity. When Rocky Lhotka speaks, other geeks listen. Here he talks about Windows 8 bringing PC Users parity with phone and iPad applications, primarily because of the improved smart client and distributed computing world based on apps and n... [More]

Metro in the Real World. This 4:18 video captures a guy's dad using Windows 8 for the first time. For most of the 4 minutes the man is trying to figure out how to return to the Window Tiles after opening an Explorer window. He never figures it out. To be ... [More]