About

With a background in marketing, design, and technology, Dave Burke focuses on bridging disciplinary gaps to create web products that delight both users and business owners. [More...]

Speaking

Information Architecture and User Experience
GS Grad School, Washington, DC
Sept-Dec 2009

Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009

Web 2.0 Goes to Work: How two media companies implemented business social software
Web 2.0 Expo, New York
November 16-19, 2009

On the Social Webs

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Shorties

Tuesday
17Nov2009

GS Graduate School IA Class: Week 7: UX and Agile

Here are my slides from the week 7 lecture on UX and agile. We started with the ball point exercise (PDF explanation), then moved into the lecture.

Thursday
05Nov2009

Andrew McAfee's six ways to "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" in Enterprise 2.0

I caught the stream of Andrew McAfee's talk at the just-finished Enterprise 2.0 conference, in which he says that we're in the midst of a "tipping point" of Enterprise 2.0 adoption, but that there are still ways to ruin a good thing.


(Watch the whole video on demand at E2TV.)

Here are my notes from his six ways to "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" in Enterprise 2.0 adoption:

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Monday
21Sep2009

Sign up and pass around: IA and UX course at GS Graduate School

I am excited to be joining Thom Haller in teaching the Information Architecture and User Experience course at the GS Graduate School this fall. We plan to make it real-world useful, and applicable for current practitioners as well as those who would like to learn more about the field.

So please sign up, and pass along to others who might be interested.

More details on the course after the jump. . . 

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Monday
29Jun2009

Transitions 2009 Conference presentation: Agile development at The Washington Post

Thanks to all who organized and attended the Transitions 2009 conference at GW University. Here are the slides from my talk about how The Washington Post used agile methods to build a new product, TastePost.

Monday
01Jun2009

Building communities inside the enterprise: wiki case study from The Washington Post

Here are the slides from my talk on implementing a wiki for collaboration and documentation at The Washington Post. This was delivered to Thom Haller's Information Architecture course at the USDA Graduate School.