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June 20, 2005

Groups and Communities

I am a little confused. Are groups and communities the same? At one point I had a list of communities showing but I can't recreate this. Is there a way of seeing a list of all the communities which exist? What about a membership list? I have already bumped into a few names I know (which is nice!) but is there a way of seeing a universal list?

I promise I will stop using my weblog as a discussion forum very soon.

Keywords: communities, groups, member list

Posted by Anne Fox

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Groups are the means of controlling access to parts of your Elgg. Communities are collective collaboration areas.

At present you can search on any topic and if a community exists you could find it - however perhaps that is something we should consider - a list and short description of all communities?

Groups are the means of controlling access to parts of your Elgg. If you create a group you will notice this appears as one of your access restriction options. Only the people you invite into that group will have access when that option is used.

Communities are collective collaboration areas. They allow all members of the community to contribute and each community has its own web space and URL.

At present you can search on any topic and if a community exists you could find it - however perhaps that is something we should consider - a list and short description of all communities?

Dave on Monday, 20 June 2005, 17:26 CEST # |
Anne, why don't you and I start a group with restricted access, and invite only VIP folks, just for the experiment :-)

Susanne Nyrop on Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 00:11 CEST # |
PS PS what is your reason for not wanting your blog to be dialogical? After all, the comments feature is part of the interactive group & community character of a blog, compared to a one user page?

Susanne Nyrop on Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 00:13 CEST # |
I would be happy to experiment with a VIP group. But I just realised that I don't know who you are Dave. Is that Dave Tosh? Or another Dave?

Anne Fox on Thursday, 23 June 2005, 16:42 CEST # |
But Sus I thought this was supposed to be an e-portfolio. Somewhere that you can point potential employers and partners to to showcase your achievemnets and competences? Surely they wouldn't want to see all this chat?

Anne Fox on Thursday, 23 June 2005, 16:43 CEST # |
The idea is to move away from the traditional static result-oriented eportfolio to a dynamic, process oriented learning environment around everything revolves and where all your interaction and records are stored so you can easily retrieve them. By using the different access levels you may show what you want to different people. So you may upload your CV to the file repository and link it to your blog for instance.
This is at least what I have understood until now.

Barbara Dieu on Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 22:45 CEST # |