Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near is a seminal treatise on the future that many might disagree with. Still, the concept of the Singularity has always fascinated me.  There are other books on my Nordic Track book list pertaining to the Singularit... [More]

Great Nordic Track Ski sessions with The Secrets of Word-of-Mouth Marketing by George Silverman. This was a thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening book on how to better market your product and services.  Very applicable to software developers and sell... [More]

It's been a good couple of weeks on the ol' Nordic Track Ski Machine.  Only missed a few days read-ski sessions.  Regularity is good.Freakonomics was a book I was looking forward to. Now having read it, I just don't understand its wild appeal.&n... [More]

Funny how a book written in 1999 on technology in business might as well have been written in 1956; Gregory Peck dangling a cigarette over a typewriter in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.  How our perspective changed since 1999!  Still, David S... [More]

Two Nordic Track Book Club Reviews back-to-back. Its been a good few weeks. Haven't been on the track for a few days though. Have to fix that. Tonight's entry is Going Visual: Using Images to Enhance Productivity, Decision Making and Profits by Alexis G... [More]

I knew about Rick Chapman's In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters for a while now and finally bought it.  I enjoyed it more than any other book I read in a while because I lived (as a geek) every chapter, startin... [More]

I've been on a Doc Searls kick these days and wanted to read Cluetrain Manifesto, but for some reason I pulled Watts Whacker off the bookshelf instead. The short of it is that I am WAAAAY over Watts. I like to say the name, but I doubt I'll pick up anothe... [More]

I grabbed Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities from my bookshelf last week on a lark and was very surprised how much I gained from it, particularly when considering it was published in 2000.  4-1/2 stars... [More]

Its been weeks since I spent quality time on the Nordic Track, but I'd like to think I'm back.  Why is it that when you need to exercise the most you exercise the least?  Anyway, another Nordic Track Book Club Review for you:  The Experienc... [More]

The subtitle of Blown to Bits is "How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy." Does that tell you anything? Me neither. This lack of clarity and energy was the underlying problem with the book. The authors, MBA Graduates from Har... [More]