I thought I would take some time and share with you my 5 main goals with my blog this next year. I’m mentioning them now because I wanted to get a head start on my goals, so i’m starting in October. They are pretty simple goals, but are sure to involve quite a bit of work on my end. Here they are.

1. Drupal As A Powerful Blog CMS

We all know that Drupal is a powerful content management system. But many don’t consider it a powerful CMS for professional blogging. Most still consider Wordpress the only player in that market. Through various tutorials and concept articles I hope to help people learn how to leverage the Drupal open source CMS for blogging because of the vast amount of things it can do.

Although I don’t use Drupal for this blog, I do use it for many others and am absolutely loving it!

2. Fedora A Better Operating System For Your Desktop

I have had such a good experience using the Fedora Linux Distribution and I really plan on helping other people have the same. Everyone talks about the Mac OS and Windows 7 or vista. But people are still largly underestimating the Fedora operating system and how cool it really is.

Even though I mostly cover web applications when it comes to Open Source, I do plan on exanding into the topic of the Linux Desktop and covering various tutorials and reviews of Fedora stuff.

3. Elgg Is An Amazing Social Network Platform

I still don’t get the sense from being around the web (and I mean all over) that people understand how amazing the Elgg open souce social network platform really is. The platform itself in my opinion is better than any other major social network. And you can literally have your own social network ready to go within a couple hours.

I plan on informing more people about the power of Elgg and covering various tutorials and extension reviews.

4. Finding The Best Lightweight Open Source Shopping Cart

There are so many open source ecommerce platforms on the web today. But I am in search for the best lightweight one. Not just because somebody said so. But through trial and error. Through lots of testing. And most importantly through personal experience I would like to find that “right one”.

I guess you can say that i’m looking for the “wordpress” of the ecommerce world. I’ll be covering tutorials & reviews for all the ecommerce platformst to find what i’m looking for.

5. Open Source and Microblogging are a Perfect Fit

Right now it’s considered an “unconventional use” to use Wordpress as a microblog. I hope to help change that. Wordpress can be leveraged to be a self-hosted “personal twitter” and I plan on creating a few tutorials to help people create this.

Also covering Status.net, the open source microblogging platform. I plan on covering this open source app often to help people create their very own mult-user microblogging services. I think there is a huge potential for this.