Elgg Presentation - Social Networking

2. Bloging 2

3. Forum 3

4. Communities/Groups 4

5. Profile 5

6. Friends 6

7. Sharing (files) 7

8. Sharing (Pages) 8

9. Tags Tags 9

10. RSS Feed You can receive an alert every time something is posted 10

11. Social Networking in plain english http://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 11

12. End of Part 1 12

13. Enter then your: username: password: Go to: http://mail.africaymca.org/elgg/ 13

14. Here your are ! 14

15. Go to Tools> Groups 15

16. Click on the Knowledge Sharing Task Group 16

17. Presentation of the Group 17

18. Latest discussion Group files Group pages 18

19. Forum of the group Knowledge Sharing 19

20. Thread of the discussion 20

21. You can add any new topic/question in the forum 21

22. Different status of the topic: Open Sticky Resolved Closed 22

23. Restriction in the access to this discussion 23

24. There is a space dedicated to file sharing 24

25. Brief summary of the files. Keywords associated to the file Download the file Comment on the file Title 25

26. Uploading a new file 26

27. Uploading the file Title of the file Description of the file Tags/keywords Visibility (public, private, group) 27

28. 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 28

29. If you click on the tag “collaboration”, it will retrieve all the files tagged with this word 29

30. Visibility (public,login users, private, group) 30

31. List of the pages of the group Knowledge Sharing 31

32. Creation of a page 32

33. Versioning of the page 33

34. Creating a new page 34

35. Title of the page Description of the page Tags/keywords Visibility (public, private, group) 35

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37. Can restrict only to the group 37

38. Searching somebody 38

39. 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” 39

40. 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.) 40

41. 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 41

42. The blog is independent of the group, so the visibility can be: private, login user, public 42

43. If you click on the envelope, you can see if you get any message from a member of the community. 43

44. You can send a message to anybody who is part of the community. 44

45. If you want to change your password, go under settings. 45

46. Here you can change your password 46

47. Do not forget to “save” your change 47

48. For testing purpose, I create a group called Sandbox 48

49. Click on All site groups 49

50. Click on Sandbox 50

51. Click on Join group and then try to make some test. 51

52. Once you feel comfortable you can work in our Knowledge Sharing Group 52

53. More on Elgg: www.elgg.org Book: Sharma Mayank http://tinyurl.com/3z2oac 53