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Elgg, defined
Worth reading if you have any interest in Elgg specifically or learning software in general: What is Elgg?
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Top down authority
This was originally a handful of posts on my personal weblog @ apcala.com, but I thought I'd repost here to see what Elgg.net members think. Poor old Dave Winer. Obviously times have been a little hard of late for the RSS and podcasting pioneer, who recently declared
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Logo competition
A quick reminder: the Elgg logo competition only has a couple more days left! Have a go!
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Ch-ch-changes
We've had a couple of changes today, courtesy of Mr Tosh - 'Templates' are now known as 'Themes', and you'll find your friends groups under 'Access'. We think these terms are less confusing and more closely describe the functionality in question.
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Hosting, logos
We're really keen for people to try out their own Elgg installations, which is why we've created this hosting deal - we'll give you a gigabyte of server space and install the latest version of the software for you, so you can mess about with
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Elgg, Ben, Dave, the future
After a small amount of tinkering, the Elgg Features community is back online. As am I, after a short hiatus in a wooden house on the water with not so much as a telephone. As much as I love sailing and getting back to nature, it's good to
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Elgg release ...
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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Disability access
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;
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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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Communities 99.9% there
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
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Communities
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
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Podcasting in iTunes
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