New Book: _Elgg Social Networking_

Colleagues/

A Most Intriguing New Book On ELGG, The Open-Source Social Web application.

/Gerry

_Elgg Social Networking_

Elgg is an open-source social web application licensed under GPL version 2, and runs on the LAMP (Linux,
Apache, MySQL, and PHP) or WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) platform. It offers a networking platform
combining elements of blogging, e-portfolios, news feed aggregation, file sharing, and social
networking. Elgg has its own plug-in architecture, and can use plug-ins to provide a calendar and a wiki.
It supports a number of open standards including RSS, LDAP for authentication, FOAF, and XML-RPC for
integration with most third-party blogging clients. It can be integrated with MediaWiki, Moodle,
Drupal, and WebCT

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While anybody can use Elgg to create their social network, it is especially useful in education as it has
many features making it suitable for e-learning, including groups, communities, and blogs that can be
used for online classes where students can communicate in a new way with each other and with students
around the world-in a managed, protected environment, creating what its authors term a "personal
learning landscape". This book also covers using Elgg in teaching/learning.

Table of Contents 
Preface
Chapter 1: Social Networks and Elgg
Chapter 2: A Tour around Elgg
Chapter 3: Users, Profiles, and Connections
Chapter 4: Blogging and Resources