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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
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"Smith N.E." <[log in to unmask]> Sent by: "elearning projects group: museums and galleries, libraries and archives" <[log in to unmask]> 28/11/2006 16:16 Please respond to "Smith N.E." <[log in to unmask]>

To [log in to unmask] cc Subject Systems for personal stories

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
                To: [log in to unmask]
                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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