Elgg Tutorial - Brief overview
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Majors requirement when talking of Majors requirement when talking of social networking:social networking:
• BlogsBlogs• ForumsForums• CommunitiesCommunities• ProfilesProfiles• FriendsFriends• Sharing Sharing • TagsTags• Feed Syndication (RSS) Feed Syndication (RSS)
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BlogingBloging
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ForumForum
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Communities/GroupsCommunities/Groups
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ProfileProfile
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FriendsFriends
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Sharing (files)Sharing (files)
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Sharing (Pages)Sharing (Pages)
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TagsTags
Tags
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RSS FeedRSS Feed
You can receive an alert every time something is posted
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Social Networking in plain englishhttp://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc
Web 2.0 http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
Article on Elgg: http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=17
social networking in plain English social networking in plain English
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End of Part 1 End of Part 1
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Enter then your:
username:
password:
Go to: Go to: http://mail.africaymca.org/elgg/http://mail.africaymca.org/elgg/
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Here your are ! Here your are !
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Go to Tools> Groups
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Click on the Knowledge Sharing Task Group
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Presentation of the Group
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Latest discussion
Group files
Group pages
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Forum of the group Knowledge Sharing
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Thread of the discussion
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You can add any new topic/question in the forum
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Different status of the topic: OpenSticky ResolvedClosed 2222
Restriction in the access to this discussion
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There is a space dedicated to file sharing
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Brief summary of the files. Keywords associated to the fileDownload the fileComment on the file
Title
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Uploading a new file
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Uploading the fileTitle of the file Description of the file Tags/keywords Visibility (public, private, group)
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Selecting Tags/keywords are one of the most important things to do. Taging properly your document allows to retrieve them easily through the all network. Each tag create an hyperlink. Each tag must be separated by a comma
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If you click on the tag “collaboration”, it will retrieve all the files tagged with this word
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Visibility (public,login users, private, group)
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List of the pages of the group Knowledge Sharing
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Creation of a page
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Versioning of the page
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Creating a new page
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Title of the pageDescription of the pageTags/keywords Visibility (public, private, group)
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Can restrict only to the group
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Searching somebody
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You can add romulo as a friend You can see the profile of “romulo” The friends of “romulo”The friends of the friends of Romulo The blog of “romulo”The files produced by “romulo”You can send a message to “romulo”You can see the pages produced by “romulo”
By just clicking here you can see the profile and activities of “romulo”
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In this space you can create as many blog post as you want. Blog post always appeared in the reverse chronological order (last in first.)
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Selecting Tags/keywords are one of the most important things to do. Taging properly your blog post allows to retrieve them easily through the all network. Each tag create an hyperlink. Each tag must be separated by a comma
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The blog is independent of the group, so the visibility can be: private, login user, public
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If you click on the envelope, you can see if you get any message from a member of the community. 4343
You can send a message to anybody who is part of the community.
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If you want to change your password, go under settings.
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Here you can change your password
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Do not forget to “save” your change
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For testing purpose, I create a group called Sandbox
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Click on All site groups
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Click on Sandbox
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Click on Join group and then try to make some test.
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Once you feel comfortable you can work in our Knowledge Sharing Group
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More on Elgg: www.elgg.org
Book: Sharma Mayank http://tinyurl.com/3z2oac
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