Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
The next Elgg release will happen either tonight or tomorrow night - Dave and I will confer on the version number, but I suspect it won't have an "a" or "b" suffix. We've made so many changes, and some really excellent contributions have
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Here in the UK, universities and public organisations are subject to the Disability Discrimination Act, which dictates that we must make "reasonable efforts" to allow content to be accessed by the disabled. This largely means blind people, although there are also issues for people with impaired motor skills;
I'm back from my whirlwind visit to Odense in Denmark, where I was invited to speak at the KnowledgeLab's E-portfolio & Talent Management conference. I'd once again like to thank Niels and the team for a really though-provoking, well-organised event. Of
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You've probably seen the news post announcing communities. It's really exciting, and we've been meaning to do this for a really long time, but the logistics - more than any other part of the system - have been daunting to say the least. It's
Communities are 3/4 the way there; a little more work tomorrow and the basics will be in place. Currently you cannot create your own community, but feel free to join Elgg Features by clicking the button next to the community name, just as you would add someone to your
iTunes 4.9 will support podcasting. That probably signals that the technology has gone mainstream. Elgg is, of course, a perfect podcasting platform; upload MP3 files to your file repository, tag them with a common keyword (eg "podcast") and the RSS feed for that tag is your podcast
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This post partially serves as a test that the new post-to-weblog interface is functioning correctly, and partially as a notification that it exists. It's part of a bigger whole and - like everything else - in alpha, but you'll now see a "click here to
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It's been a little while since I've updated my weblog here, although I read the 'all weblog posts' screen every day. I've had a lot of fun watching people come in, and we've now got over 500 members on this
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I've been bad and not kept this weblog updated. (My personal weblog is over here on Apcala, another installation of the Elgg software we set up.) A week or two ago Dave posted a draft diagram of what the Elgg software will look like in the future. People
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A question I'm grappling with today involves listing items on other sites with tags used on Elgg. If you click on "metadata", I ideally want to see not just other Elgg users who've been thinking about metadata, but also citations in other weblogs, on
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I'm really looking forward to open sourcing Elgg. So far the stumbling block is which license to choose - GPL is not an option as far as I'm concerned. If anyone's got any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Lately I've
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When you click on a keyword, some screens will now show automatic tag suggestions at the bottom. This is currently a full word search, so "photography" yields "digital photography", but not "photos" (yet).