Hi
I thought you might be interested in Scribble which Scran has set
up. Based on the open source system ELGG, Scribble is a social
network with spaces for files, profiles, blogs and communities. All
users have the same rights: your own scape, your own files, set up
any community you want, join any community that will have you,
comment and share. It is aimed at Culture and Education. The whole
world can see Scribble but only members can post and comment. Each
element in Scribble can have its access level controlled - so you
want a community to be gated? - fine; so you want your post to be
seen by a personally selected "Access Group"? - fine. We hope most
people will post publicly.
During this Beta launch, we are limiting access to Scran Users and
identifiable users from the Culture and Education communities. We
would be happy to provide accounts to anyone on the MCG. There is no
charge - nor will there be - and you are free to set up whatever
communities you wish.
You'll see Scribble populated with some sample blogs and communities
from the Scran team to give you some ideas. So far, we have books,
museums and galleries, cinema etc. You will, no doubt, think of many
more uses and many specific topics. It might just be a convenient
place to blog.
http://scribble.scran.ac.uk
If you like what you see or just want to try it out, email me and
i'll send back a username and password.
Happy Scribbling
Graham
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www.scran.ac.uk
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