Dear Steve

think this email was intender for Christopher Streets
<[log in to unmask]>, rather than me.

Kind regards,
Christina Moneta 

-----Original Message-----
From: UKEIG: the UK eInformation Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Steve
Sent: 17 April 2007 12:14
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Free Communities Site for Small, Geographically Dispersed
Communities in LIS

Hi Chris

I have sent you an invitation in a separate email. You need to activate
this invitation and then you will receive a password - which you can
change when you first log in.

You are invited to the "closed" group but can join other groups by
clicking My Groups on the menu.

Any comments or suggestions gratefully received.

Best regards,
Steve


On 17/04/07, Christopher Streets <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> This sounds like an interesting tool. Would I be able to have a look 
> at the 'sample community'? I'm not sure if we would use it ourselves 
> but the concept is a good one and networks we work with may be
interested.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris Streets
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: UKEIG: the UK eInformation Group 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve
> Sent: 17 April 2007 11:01
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Free Communities Site for Small, Geographically Dispersed 
> Communities in LIS
>
> Hi all
>
> I have developed a website for two LIS/Resarch "communities" I am a 
> member of which allows us to keep in touch even though we are 
> geographically dispersed around the country/the world.
>
> The features of the site include:
>
> * Closed, invitation only communities
> * One "control panel" even if you are a member of several communities 
> within the site.
> * Open (within the community) and closed groups (useful if you need to

> have a restricted discussion/file sharing amongst, say, the committee)
> * Discussion forums (that allow file attachments that can be 
> downloaded or emailed directly by users)
> * Community Blog (inc password protected RSS Feed) - only 
> administrators can contribute to the blog
> * Community Calendar for meetings, events etc - all users can add 
> events to the calendar
> * Custom Email Alerts (sent hourly, daily or weekly) - you can receive

> notifications about all new posts or ones that match certain keywords 
> or ones contributed to specific groups
> * Custom RSS Feeds (password protected) - these can include all latest

> posts or ones that match certain keywords or ones contributed to 
> specific groups
> * User Snapshot Polls
> * Administrator, Moderator and General User Roles
> * Administrators may invite new members and create new groups within 
> the community.
> * Standards compliant XHTML/CSS
> * No server side scripting like Javascript/Ajax etc (though the 
> calendar does use iframes).
>
> All activity on the site centres around adding a "post" to a group - 
> whether this is creating a blog entry, a calendar entry or a poll.
>
> The site is continually being developed but has been running for a few

> months now. I have been assessing server impact and it's not great so 
> am happy to open this up to a few LIS communities who think they might

> find it useful. I have only posted this to UKEIG - but please feel 
> free to forward it on to colleagues in LIS that may be interested.
>
> If you want to see how the site please let me know and I can "invite"
> you to join a sample "community".
>
> If, having looked around the sample community, you are interested in 
> using this product for your community - please reply to this email
> indicating:
>
> * The name of the "Community".
> * Aims of the community.
> * Number of members you wish to invite.
> * An estimate of how "active" the group is.
> * Name and email address of person who will become the "community 
> administrator".
>
>
> --
> Steve Burgess
> Tel: 0787 2996967
> Fax: 0870 7064078
>
>
> N.B. I can't guarantee that all groups requesting access to the site 
> will be given it - as I need to ensure that other communities do not 
> suffer any degradation of service.
>



--
Steve Burgess
Tel: 0787 2996967
Fax: 0870 7064078


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