In the first of a series of videos, I explain what I call my Open Source Social Media Strategy. At least the first big chunk of it anyway. I explain how I am able to funnel all of my social media efforts around the web all through Twitter and then down through to my Microblog.

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Pubwich is the open source PHP social aggregation app. I wrote about it a couple weeks back covering some of what it actually does. Well I decided yesterday that I would spend some time installing and configuring Pubwich on my server to see how cool it actually is. Needless to say, I am impressed!
Pubwich in [...]

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Backupify.com, formerly known as Lifestream Backup is a service that provides backup of all your social media information. The basic idea is that through a Backupify.com account, you can have your Facebook and Twitter data backed up for you on a daily or weekly basis. There are of course other services that you can have [...]

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Have you ever been on a social networking site, let’s say Facebook for example, and it gave you an option to invite all your friends from your gmail or yahoo email account? You ever wondered how you would build something like that on your own social site? Maybe on your blog or maybe your own [...]

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I wanted to take some time and revisit the open source social networking platform Elgg. This is one the coolest open source projects out there and is still not talked about enough. I still hear stories about people building social networking platforms on their own from scratch. It doesn’t make too much sense to me [...]

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Are you trying to build your own social network? Are you at least contemplating the idea in your mind? Than you are looking for Elgg- the open source social network platform. It’s open source, which means it free and customizable. It also means that it gives you a solid foundation to work off of. Elgg [...]