Hi,
You can also try http://www.commanet.org/
Commanet is a charity that promotes
and supports community archives. We offer advice on sources of funding
and on setting up and running a community archive group. We supply Comma
software and provide training, support and web hosting for community archives.
We are partners with The National Archives and others in the Linking Arms
and Community Access to Archives Projects. We are also involved in a number
of community archive projects across the UK and worldwide, for example,
Comma software is used for the Community Memories element of the Virtual
Museum of Canada.
Helena Wetterberg
Community Interpretation Officer
Manchester Art Gallery
Mosley Street
Manchester
M2 3JL
Tel: 0161 235 8823
Internal: 804 8823
Fax: 0161 235 8899
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www.manchestergalleries.org
COINE is a good place to start, as well as Elgg.net,
downloadable Open Source Content Management Systems are not always the
best option becasue they often require quite complicated setup, but ones
like Wordpress, Mambo, and PHPNuke are relatively painless. Drupal with
CivicCRM is the best for a large Community website and has extensive audio
and video uploading facilities. Elgg is designed primarily fro teaching
community websites and is worth a look.
Nicole Smith
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From: elearning projects group: museums and galleries, libraries and archives
on behalf of Scott Wilson
Sent: Tue 28/11/2006 13:15
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Systems for personal stories
Wikis can also be useful for making freeform hypertext stories. Edublogs
(http://edublogs.org/) offers both free blogs (wordpress) and wikis for
students and teachers.
On 28 Nov 2006, at 12:02, Walter Milner wrote:
For the generic version - how about <http://wordpress.com/> http://wordpress.com/
Its free and easy, can be used as a conventional blog, they can have separate
'pages', they can upload text image audio and video, has a simple URL which
can be linked to,
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From: elearning projects group: museums and galleries, libraries and archives
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bridget McKenzie
Sent: 28 November 2006 10:24
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Subject: Systems for personal stories
Hello
If you were running a low budget project, advising learning groups with
no funds to create their own digital stories (e.g. writing their life stories
and family/community histories) whatfree and easy websites would you suggest
they use?
I'm interested in two categories:
- generic and flexible applications they can link to or install into their
own URL (e.g. school website)
- websites dedicated to hosting heritage/family digital storytelling (inviting
text/image/audio & video, not just the assumption that digital storytelling
= video)
Hope you can help
Many thanks
Bridget McKenzie
Director, Flow Associates
152 Waller Road, London, SE14 5LU
07890 540178
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