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Here are a few options for serving videos in your membership community in a secure fashion. Often times if you are using a pre-made social networking service like Ning.com it comes with the ability to serve an host your own videos. These videos can then be made private for only your community to view. Other [...]

When you begin your niche social network there are several steps and tasks you will need to consider. Often times launching your site is only the first step.The additional steps come with making money on your website, inviting members and keeping your site alive, interesting and growing. Below are 25 additional elements involved in starting [...]

Monitoring your niche can be a key factor in building your niche social network. Here are three tools which are both a time savers and great tools in assisting you with this. 1) GOOGLE ALERTS – Google alerts is simply awesome. Set this up with specific keywords to track blogs and news reports. Then request [...]

This is an excellent blog I just found on time managment. The original post can be viewed here. We added a few more thoughts into this recipe. 1. Before you do or read anything else, update your status. If you are a member of more than one social network, use a service such as Ping.fm. [...]

Here is a list of membership site software and providers. The main question to ask is do you want a managed service or do you want to manage your service your self. If you plan on having under 100 members you might just want to look into something like joomla which is essentially free. If [...]

Here is a list of business whom provide social networking software. Please post additional listings below. Sharepoint, Five Across, Community Server, Peopleaggregator, Social Platform, Sitelife From Pluck, Affinity Circles, Kick Apps, Web Crossing, Crowd Factory, Collectivex, Elggspaces, Metromojo, Me.com, Onesite, Phpfox, Select Minds, Small World Labs, Social Network Server, Sparta Social Networks, Phpizabi, Leverage Software, [...]