Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
If you are interested in translating Elgg or using Elgg in another language, Elgg's Rosetta page is going strong; head over there to participate in collaborative translations or grab the latest language file. Rosetta describes itself as a Web-based system for translating open source software into any language.
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We've set up an Elgg Spaces community for ePortfolio 2006, and most of the content being put up is public - so if you're interested, do go along. My conference blog is here, and you may be interested in some of the brief reaction videos we&
My overriding thought is that it's not good enough to simply provide ePortfolio functionality. If your aim is to provide a "traditional" ePortfolio, great - but if you're simply ticking boxes to please institutions, you're not going to engage students and your
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Elgg.net is now running on the latest development version of Elgg, plus a handful of plugins we think are cool. Some improvements you can expect to see as you navigate around the site: The dashboard. This is a customisable area where you can add as many content widgets as
Here's a map to the Eagle and Child, where Dave and I will be sitting from 4pm until 9pm. We'd love it if you could join us.
Josie Fraser has posted an interview with Dave and I. If you're curious about who's behind Elgg, where we're going next or about our attitude to the e-learning sphere, go take a peek.
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Developers have had a mailing list for some time to discuss system code (it's here, if you'd like to join) but we're pleased to announce that as of today there's a similar community for users. The Elgg users mailing list is for
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Internet Explorer 7 is being released this month. Web developers around the world are treating this news with a certain amount of anxiety. I, for one, am not. I mean, it can't be much worse, right?
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I'm sometimes surprised by how easy it actually is to get on the Internet. Dave and I are both in transit, but I spoke to him on MSN chat as he sat on the train. Meanwhile, I'm on the Oxford Tube coach to London, with rolling
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/10/05/youtube-is-wildly-popular/ HipMojo is running a compelling argument that YouTube isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Despite numerous naysayers, and various threats from the media industry, sites like YouTube are the beginning of a giant sea change in media. Combine it with TiVo and other
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/30/webcameron/ As much as Conservative Party leader David Cameron gives me shivers up my spine and makes my hair stand on end, I think his latest venture will probably work well for him. Webcameron is a series of video blogs that are just unblatantly
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/29/the-challenge-of-multiple-contexts/ danah boyd has this to say about Facebook’s recent opening to the general public: MySpace allegedly has something like 100 million users (although there has recently been controversy about this and other user figures). How on earth do you sort through that