Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

We’re excited to announce that Sueetie Gamification Features are complete and release-ready for Version 4.1.  The gamification goals for v4.1 we posted on the Sueetie Roadmap upon v4.0’s release are now complete. Leaderboards, Points and Badges - An... [More]

All of us who have ever managed community forums have experienced spammers who come to our communities, create an account, litter up our forums with spam, then leave.  We are left to clean up the mess.  With YetAnotherForum.NET and improved Suee... [More]

I was running SQL Profiler the other day and didn’t like what I saw.  There were too many round-trips being made to SQL Server from the various Sueetie web sites running on the server.  Here’s an example of what I’m talking about.  You see ... [More]

After seeing the value of the new Friends, Favorites, Thanks and Sharing features on the Sueetie Wall we had to spread the love, so we added our new collection of member engagement features to the Sueetie Wiki.   Our initial objective for adding... [More]

Sharing is becoming increasingly more important in everything we do on the web. It should be omnipresent in our online communities as well.  In Sueetie we have enjoyed the ability to share posts in BlogEngine.NET for some time and most recently new s... [More]

We’ve been doing some fun things with Friends, like adding a PM to Friends and new Friends links on the Sueetie Wall.  Sueetie Friends is based on the YetAnotherForum.NET Buddies module, as you know, so we were thinking, why not extend YAF.NET’s Than... [More]

We’ve laid the groundwork for a solid Friends model in Sueetie and have started to add friends functionality to other Community areas.  The first new Friends feature to tell you about is PM to Friends where you can send a PM to your Friends List.... [More]

Before we start thinking about adding new Friend-enhanced features or add Friends functionality to existing features, it’s important to understand the definition of a Friend in Sueetie.  A Friend in Sueetie is defined by two members mutually agreeing... [More]

Sueetie Email Templates came about because we were ramping up to add messaging into a number of Sueetie Member processes and needed a quick and easy way to send out localized email messages.  We also designed Sueetie Email Templates to enable other .... [More]

This is the beginning of a new "Era of Friends" in Sueetie, with a new context for enhancing Community Engagement.  New ways to interact, create, view and filter content are ahead, most of which will be discovered as we continue to engage a... [More]