Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

Everyman on a Post PC Era, Nutty Nook NFC, Business of Sharing, Annoying Websites

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]

Posted on 5/9/2012 8:15:50 AM by Dave Burke, (0) Comments
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Everyman on Competition For One, Sony’s Fall, Glass in Your Future, the Screenularity

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]

Posted on 5/5/2012 1:14:38 PM by Dave Burke, (0) Comments
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Everyman on First Visit, At Social Business Core, Better than Everyone, To Apollo and Beyond

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]

Posted on 4/28/2012 4:34:51 PM by Dave Burke, (0) Comments
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Better Kill User Processing Coming in Sueetie

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]

Posted on 4/27/2012 10:52:30 AM by Dave Burke, (0) Comments
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Reducing Database Round Trips in Sueetie With SQL Profiler

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]

Posted on 4/24/2012 7:45:43 PM by Dave Burke, (0) Comments
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Friends, Favorites, Thanks and Sharing Now on the Sueetie Wiki

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]

Posted on 4/20/2012 3:57:11 PM by Dave Burke, (0) Comments
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Sharing and Social Bookmarking on the Sueetie Wall

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]

Posted on 4/17/2012 6:17:13 PM by Dave Burke, (0) Comments
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Everyman on More Than a Game, A Real Head Turner, Surrounded by Notifications, Happy Cows

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]

Posted on 4/16/2012 8:21:22 PM by Dave Burke, (0) Comments
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Tale of Two Phones and a Zune

This just in! I bought a Lumia 900 Windows Phone and I like it! There are others like me who are just now discovering Microsoft’s Windows Phone, but this is my second time around so I was skeptical. It all started with my Zune 80GB. I used it nearly ever... [More]

Posted on 4/15/2012 11:36:36 AM by Dave Burke, (0) Comments
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More Sueetie Thanks, Favorites and Friends in More Places

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]

Posted on 4/14/2012 3:49:49 PM by Dave Burke, (0) Comments
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