George Siemens

MAY 6, 2010

When I survey the landscape of educational tools, I come to the following conclusion: Elgg is the most important tool, currently available, in shaping the future of learning. Disclaimer: I was on an advisory board for Elgg when it first started, though the board never really did much, but I mention it now so it looks like I might be cool). Why Elgg? They recently announced a hosted Elgg service. And I’d love to run the next MOOC in Elgg.

eLgg 158

eLgg Survey Open Source Wiki 158

Harold Jarche

MARCH 29, 2010

Another platform that I have used since its early days is Elgg , an open source social networking platform that attracted me because of its unique underlying model. We started using Elgg for an online medical community of practice in 2004 after going through dozens of platforms. The key differentiator of Elgg is that the individual is the centre of all the action. We liked Elgg so much that we paid to develop a calendar function and then gave the code to the community.

eLgg 140

eLgg Ning Drupal Open Source 140

Harold Jarche

AUGUST 21, 2006

eLgg 100

eLgg System 100

Harold Jarche

MAY 17, 2007

eLgg 100

eLgg Research Education Technology 100

George Siemens

JULY 8, 2010

The Landing is a social network (based on Elgg) that we’ve deployed to increase social connectedness at Athabasca. I’ve mentioned Athabasca University’s Landing previously. I’ve posted a few thoughts on what needs to be done to move social networked learning forward

Social Network 136

Social Network eLgg Network 136

George Siemens

JULY 10, 2011

Within our research on social network software at Athabasca University (the Elgg-based The Landing ), we (mainly Jon Dron, actually) have been looking at ways to create different representations of activity streams to meet the needs of different contexts. Elgg – with its varied activity feed – is an early implementation of Circles. I’ve been playing around with Google+. As others have stated, it’s Google’s best foray into social networking.

Network 200

Network eLgg Facebook Adoption 200

Harold Jarche

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Open Source 100

Open Source Social Network Network eLgg 100

Harold Jarche

MAY 5, 2010

I recently described one such platform – Elgg: it’s a community effort : Another platform that I have used since its early days is Elgg , an open source social networking platform that attracted me because of its unique underlying model. We started using Elgg for an online medical community of practice in 2004 after going through dozens of platforms. The key differentiator of Elgg is that the individual [worker] is the centre of all the action.

Collaboration 178

Collaboration eLgg Yammer Workflow 178

Harold Jarche

DECEMBER 18, 2006

Open Source 100

Open Source eLgg Social Network Network 100

George Siemens

APRIL 15, 2010

Which is why I’m quite pleased that we’re using Elgg for our institutional learning/collaboration network at Athabasca University: the Landing. Big news today from Ning: no more free networks (and 40% staff layoffs). Hosted services are great – as long as you can pull your data out (a significant value to Google’s data liberation project). Many educators use Ning for creating social networks. But, for Ning, ad revenue has not been able to meet their financial needs.

Ning 165

Ning eLgg Data Social Network 165

Harold Jarche

JUNE 25, 2006

Open Source 100

Open Source eLgg Search System 100

George Siemens

AUGUST 19, 2011

It includes a few classics (to the degree that our field has classics), such as his discussion with Dave Tosh (co-founder of Elgg) on the role of openness in economics or earning a living and numerous encounters with David Wiley.

eBook 158

eBook eLgg Education Resources 158

George Siemens

MAY 30, 2011

Landing (Elgg), Twitter, Facebook. What can we do now with information that we could not do in the past? I’ve abused Kauffman’s concept of the adjacent possible by applying it to the new opportunities, untapped potential, and levels of complexity, that arise with the development of something new. In this case, the “something new&# is the ways in which new tools allow us to mess around with information.

eLgg 168

eLgg Analytics Statistics Activities 168

George Siemens

JANUARY 27, 2012

But I benefit daily from open source software – my blogs are wordpress, the server that hosts my sites runs LAMP, at work I use ELGG ( the Landing ), for open courses we use gRSShopper , etc. On February 8, I’ll be delivering a talk at TEDxEdmonton’s event Rethinking Open Source Culture. In 2003 I posted a few articles online on open source movements and learning: Open source p.I , Open Source p.II , and Why we should share learning material.

Open Source 155

Open Source eLgg Analytics Software 155

Jane Hart

JUNE 14, 2012

These might be proprietary systems like Jive , Podio , Yammer , Socialcast , or open source software, like WordPress / Buddypress or Elgg.

Technology 265

Technology eLgg Jive Yammer 265

Tony Karrer

MARCH 5, 2007

Dave Tosh laments - Elgg is the most popular white label social networking platform in the world powering over 2000 networks. However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative than Elgg, but they do very well financially through the packaging and support models.

Open Source 100

Open Source eLgg eLearning Price 100

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 27, 2009

Unlike Drupal or ELGG, Moodle enables you to set up courses and learning environments without any programming skills… as long as you have a step-by-step guidebook like this one. Moodle is an open source course management system with a wide following.

Course 117

Course eLgg Drupal Open Source 117

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

If you look on my link roll, there's one from Articulate, elgg, ummm. Another thought just occurred to me based on my last post Innovation Geography Based and Innovation in eLearning. Ben Werdmuller posted his comments on this Does location matter for web startups? and asked about innovation in eLearning, especially innovation that leads to products. One thing that just dawned on me is how few product vendor blogs there are in eLearning.

Productivity 100

Productivity Products eLgg eLearning 100

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The Importance of Elgg in the Future of Learning. And I’d love to run the next MOOC in Elgg. When I survey the landscape of educational tools, I come to the following conclusion: Elgg is the most important tool, currently available, in shaping the future of learning. Why Elgg?

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eLgg Education Screencast Course 238

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 14, 2010

The Importance of Elgg in the Future of Learning , May 6, 2010. The Importance of Elgg in the Future of Learning , May 6, 2010. Best of Informal Learning Flow. May 1, 2010 to June 14, 2010. The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. 12 Things Good Bosses Believe - HarvardBusiness.org , May 28, 2010. What is data science? OReilly Radar , June 2, 2010. 10 techniques to massively increase retention - Donald Clark Plan B , May 28, 2010.

eLgg 105

eLgg Facebook Enterprise 2.0 Review 105

Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

MAY 3, 2011

changes things – like Elgg, it is a plug-in based environment, so your Moodle 2.0 So we have: - hard systems, like Yahoo’s predefined indices, which was easy to use - soft systems, like Google, with no predefined categories, but was harder to use Example: Elgg at Athabasca. But the ‘softer’ (less predefined) system of Elgg is harder to use, especially within a hard (entrenched, institutionalized, calcified) system like Athabasca.

eLgg 110

eLgg Tools System Technology 110

Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

AUGUST 11, 2016

People have tried to build alternatives, like Elgg and Diaspora and App.net and pump.io The sad part is, most of you won't read this message. Not because you don't want to. You probably do. You actually followed me just for that purpose. But because your social network is lying to you. As of today my Facebook page OLDaily has 638 'likes'. This mean s 638 people think they are following the page. Yet when I post an article on that page, it reaches a small percentage of that audience.

Facebook 159

Facebook eLgg Feed Yammer 159

Harold Jarche

JANUARY 28, 2009

I would add Elgg to mix if there is an interest in the functionality of Ning, but with the advantage of open source. Dave Cormier has written a great article on selecting a content management system (CMS). Dave discusses three platforms, all of which I have used - WordPress , Moodle , Drupal. All are open source and there are a variety of hosting models available for most budgets.

Drupal 100

Drupal Technology Ning eLgg 100

Harold Jarche

JUNE 29, 2010

Open source Elgg may replace Ning with a non locked-in platform, but its success remains to be seen. Over three years ago I wrote that the future of learning is DIY : With Google you can find most information that you need. YouTube is a quick and easy way to get “learning objects” to the world. Apple gives the essential tools for knowledge workers, and in a nice package. Wikipedia has shown that the wisdom of crowds is just as good as the wisdom of elites.

Google Docs 140

Google Docs Ning eLgg Open Source 140

Tony Karrer

MAY 12, 2009

9 Free Tools That Help Me Build Better E-Learning , May 5, 2009 Control and Community: A Case Study of Enterprise Wiki Usage , May 4, 2009 Using Elgg as as Social Learning platform , May 2, 2009 Learning with 'e's: e-Learning 3.0 , May 4, 2009 Learning 2.0 , May 5, 2009 Become a chief meta-learning officer , May 3, 2009 The Future of eLearning is Social Learning , May 2, 2009 Are You a Super Learner? , Here what eLearning Learning thinks is the most interesting stuff from last week.

eLearning 101

eLearning eLgg Technology Wiki 101

Harold Jarche

JUNE 21, 2010

We are operating this class on the Ning platform [the description of how we used Ning still pertains to other social networking platforms such as Elgg or Grou.ps ]. NOTE: Elgg will soon be offering a hosted and open source alternative to Ning. As our Work Literacy Ning site (2008) is in danger of getting bumped off the Net due to Ning’s new pricing policy , I will post some of the key articles here so we don’t lose them.

Social Network 192

Social Network Network Ning LinkedIn 192

Harold Jarche

APRIL 2, 2010

This reminds me how important it is to own your data , and the following show two open source options to Ning’s Software as a Service (SaaS) platform: @elggdotcom “there is a hosted version of Elgg coming in May&#. Here’s what I learned on Twitter this past week: @literacyadviser “The only truly effective web filter is an educated mind.&# via @ jonhusband. dweinberger “The only way I know to solve big problems anymore is to do it in public.&#.

Data 118

Data Ning eLgg Drupal 118

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 17, 2007

In fact, LMS, Elgg, Flickr, del.icio.us, Wikis, Blogs, Discussion Groups, Amazon, hmmm, the list gets long quickly. Stephen Downes picked up my post on Facebook As a Learning Platform. He commented: To be clear, I do not think that Facebook itself is really a learning environment. It's a large, centralized piece of software that is getting creaky with use (we've seen more outages and the PHP code is once again dumping itself into users' browsers).

Facebook 101

Facebook eLgg LinkedIn Web 2.0 101

George Siemens

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The platform will be based on the open source ELGG tool and will include customization to reflect personalized learning content as well as advanced analytics on learner behaviour. I’ve never really actively “looked for work” In my late teens, my brother and I started a series of restaurants (we owned and operated seven in total). The hospitality field is very hard, however, on families and relationships as it consumes an enormous amount of time.

Analytics 162

Analytics eLgg Research Proposal 162

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Conversation included LinkedIn, Ning, MySpace, Orkut, PLE, Plurk, Utterli, Twitter, Elgg, Xing, Edmoto, wow, there are a lot of these things to consider. The first week of our Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals is wrapping up. This week we looked at Social Networks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around social networks for learning. Starting with Social Networking was a blessing and a curse. Social networks have a tendency to be a bit messy.

Social Network 100

Social Network Network Ning eLgg 100

Harold Jarche

JULY 29, 2010

Even without a full product comparison, I would say that several other platforms, including open source Elgg or Drupal can do much of this.

Review 209

Review eLgg Drupal Workflow 209

Tony Karrer

MARCH 30, 2007

If you watched the Brandon Hall network fail or have participated in Elgg then it shouldn't really come as much of a surprise that all of the recent Ning networks are going to get a similar reaction as David's. I just read David Warlicks' post - I Just Don't Get it Yet â€" Social Networks where he discusses his recent experience with several Ning generated social networks including: I've joined Library 2.0 , School 2.0 , and Classroom 2.0.

Social Network 100

Social Network Network Ning eLgg 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 28, 2006

In it he points to the learning space and says that the current status of open-source learning applications is: Innovators - Elgg Learning Landscape and several others Early Adopters - Moodle and a few others Early Majority - nobody Late Majority - forget about it I would tend to agree with him that there are relatively few open-source learning applications, but would add a few thoughts. Good post by Harold Jarche - Where are open source learning applications?

Open Source 100

Open Source eLgg Adoption Features 100

Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

MARCH 3, 2007

The project to which he refers, of course, is ELGG. It was crowded even when ELGG launched. Here's the question to ask: would ELGG have had any measure of success had it been subscription-based software? As open source software goes, ELGG is almost unique in its intent to create a revenue stream for its producer. My relation with ELGG, if I am to be perfectly honest, is exactly as described. This is why they treat ELGG as a business.

Software 100

Software eLgg Open Source Drupal 100

Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Now - yes, it's distributed, in that I don't need to use specific software (such as ELGG) to create my friends network. Nothing against ELGG, it's great, but I use my own software. It allows me to join networks where ELGG used to cut me off. My comments to Dave Tosh on the launch of Explode. Pretty nifty.

eLgg 100

eLgg Repository Software List 100

Harold Jarche

MARCH 12, 2009

Elgg (OS). Note: This is a revised HTML version of previous PDF’s posted on the site , which should make it easier for sharing. We may learn on our own but usually not by ourselves. People learn socially.

PKM 246

PKM eLgg Yammer Delicious 246

Tony Karrer

JUNE 8, 2009

May 19, 2009 25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals 2009 , May 19, 2009 The End in Mind " A Post-LMS Manifesto , May 8, 2009 Micro-blogging at Work , May 30, 2009 Using Elgg as as Social Learning platform , May 2, 2009 Learning with 'e's: e-Learning 3.0 , May 4, 2009 Does technology change the nature of knowledge? eLearning Learning Hot List May 1, 2009 to May 31, 2009 Here is the best stuff from May 2009 via the eLearning Learning site. Hope you enjoy.

eLearning 100

eLearning eLgg Delicious Social Bookmarking 100

John Hagel

APRIL 11, 2007

and ads) with Elgg (open source with Web 2.0 Edge Perspectives with John Hagel Exploration of emerging innovations on a broad array of edges that are rising up to challenge the core About Recent Posts The Great Reset Passion and Flow Economic Recovery? Dont Count On It.

Web 2.0 130

Web 2.0 Lotus Notes eLgg Ning 130

Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

APRIL 25, 2009

Software to create social networks is the logical successor to content management systems such as Drupal, and in the field of learning, the most prominent such system is Elgg. In addition to supporting content creation and the creation of networks of friends among members, Elgg allowed people to import content from remote sites and to syndicate this content through the use of RSS feeds. Retrieved from Drupal: [link] Elgg. Retrieved from Elgg: [link] Foreman, J.

Informal Learning 141

Informal Learning Technology Drupal eLgg 141

Tony Karrer

APRIL 28, 2008

Elgg, Drupal, and Moodle -- the components of an online learning environment | FunnyMonkey - Tools for Teachers 59. My collection of eLearning Articles, White Papers, Blog Posts, etc. just reached 100. Thought I'd share. No particular order to these. Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory 2. Keeping Up with the Pace of Change Informal learning will help employees survive in the future workplace 3. Understanding E-Learning 2.0

eLearning 129

eLearning Mzinga Web 2.0 eLgg 129

Clark Quinn

APRIL 2, 2009

Drupal is an open source CMS that’s been used for social media, and Elgg similarly started as an open source portfolio tool but has expanded. I spent yesterday touring the Web 2.0 expo (part of the time with fellow miscreant Jay Cross ), and it led me to think a bit more about social media tools and approaches. After touring the floor, having lunch, and touring the floor some more before the keynotes, my reflections have to do with hybrids and implementation.

Mzinga 100

Mzinga Lithium eLgg Drupal 100

Jay Cross

JULY 6, 2009

Using Elgg as as Social Learning platform , May 2, 2009. The top posts from sources selected for Informal Learning Flow in the first six months of 2009: Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - OReilly Radar , January 11, 2009. 50 Essential Strategies For Creating A Successful Web 2.0 Product - Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog , January 26, 2009. How to Revise an Email So That People Will Read It - HarvardBusiness.org , April 14, 2009.

eLgg 102

eLgg Drupal Twitter SharePoint 102

Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Demo of the social networking platform it's based on ELGG ) [link] We have about 3300 users already, 800 from outside the corporation - our users latched on to it because it did fill a need in having multi-organization groups.

Conference 114

Conference eLgg SharePoint Overview 114