Elgg Social Networking Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Social Networks and Elgg
Chapter 2: A Tour around Elgg
Chapter 3: Users, Profiles, and Connections
Chapter 4: Blogging and Resources
Chapter 5: Communities and Files
Chapter 6: Customizing Elgg
Chapter 7: Elgg Plug-Ins
Appendix A: Installing Elgg
Appendix B: Elgg Case Study
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Social Networks and Elgg
  • Types of Social Networks
  • How Can a Social Network Help You?
  • Tools of the Trade
  • What's so Special About Elgg?
  • So, What can Elgg Do?
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: A Tour around Elgg
  • Playing With Elgg-Powered Networks
  • Sign Up
  • Account Settings
  • Your Profile
  • Customize Your Account
  • Define Access Privileges
  • Your Blog
  • Manage Your Files
  • Find People
  • Make Friends
  • Your Community
  • Your Messages
  • Your Resources
  • Your Presentation
  • Recent Activity
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Users, Profiles, and Connections
  • Connecting to Friends and Users
    • Inviting Friends to Join
      • Let Elgg Handle Registration
  • Build a Profile
    • The Various Profile Options
      • What is FOAF?
    • A Face for Your Profile
    • Access Control
      • Define Your Own Control Lists
  • Making Friends with Internal Members
    • Use Your Profile to Find Connections
    • Making Connections
    • Friendship Moderation
      • Managing Friendship Requests
      • What's Friend Of?
    • Other Account Settings
  • Attracting Visitors
    • Welcoming Guests
  • Administration Options
    • Add Users in Bulk
    • Change User Settings
  • Playing Boss
    • Blocking Users
      • Can I Formally Warn Users?
    • Removing the Ban
  • Limiting Users on the Site
    • Changing Space Quota
  • Sharing Admin Rights
  • The Scope of an Elgg Administrator
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Blogging and Resources
  • Handling Files
    • Creating Folders
    • Uploading Files
    • Right to Share
    • Viewing Files
    • Moving and Deleting Files/Folders
      • Commenting on Files
  • Start Blogging
    • Posting a New Entry
    • Adding External Videos
    • Embedding Files in Blogs
      • What Does the Number Mean?
  • Saving Drafts
    • Mark Posts as Private
    • So, Why Use a Plug-in?
    • The Draft Post Plug-in
    • Editing/Deleting Posts
    • What Are Your Friends Blogging About?
    • Keeping Track of Posts and Discussions
  • Handling Improper Content
    • Flagging Improper Posts
    • Managing Flagged Content
    • Filtering Blog Posts
  • Preventing Spam
    • Who Can Comment?
    • Using Plug-ins
      • Implementing Captcha
      • Restricting to Anonymous Users
      • Increasing the Vocabulary
    • Handling Improper Words
  • Downloading Blogs
  • Managing Resources
    • Feeding Stuff
    • Creating Feeds
    • What Feeds are Available?
    • Inducting Feeds
    • Adding Feeds from External Sources
    • Adding Popular Feeds
    • Viewing the Feeds
    • RSS Feed for Files
  • Podcasting with Elgg
    • Listening to Podcasts
    • Blogging Podcasts
    • Summary

• Chapter 5: Communities and Files
  • Creating Communities
    • Search for Existing Communities
    • Hatching a Community
  • Grooming the Community
    • Community Profile
    • Community Picture
    • Announcing the Community
  • Joining the Community
    • Membership Restriction
    • Handling Membership Requests
    • Leaving the Community
    • Community Ownership
  • Using the Community
    • Community Blog
    • Removing Improper Posts
    • Moderating Communities
  • Other Community Administration
  • Community Forum
  • Handling Files
    • Creating Folders
    • Uploading Files
    • Right to Share
    • Adding Files to a Community Repository
  • Send Messages
  • Sharing Bookmarks
  • Using Files
    • Viewing Files
    • RSS Feed for Files
    • Moving and Deleting Files/Folders
    • Embedding Files in Blogs
      • What Does the Number Mean?
    • Removing Inappropriate Files/Folders
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Customizing Elgg
  • Why Customize?
  • What Makes Up a Theme?
  • Controlling Themes
  • The Default Template
  • What are <div> and <span>?
  • The pageshell
    • CSS Elements in the pageshell
    • Other Elements
  • The frontpage Files
    • The frontpage_loggedout File
    • The frontpage_loggedin File
  • Content Keywords
    • Other Keywords that Can be Used
  • Hints for Designing a Custom Template
    • Pageshell Hacks
      • Add/Remove Elements
      • Add a Copyright Notice
    • CSS Hacks
      • Change Position of Elements
    • Fun with Images
      • Make Body Use More Space
    • Hacking Other Themes
  • Adding Public Templates
  • Changing Templates
    • Different Themes for Different Areas
  • Creating Themes Based on Templates
    • Creating Themes
    • Validating Themes
  • Replacing the Default Template
  • Contributing Themes
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Elgg Plug-Ins
  • General Structures of Plug-Ins
  • Things to Remember While Installing Plug-Ins
  • The Plug-Ins
    • Maintenance Mode
    • Custom Metatags in Header
    • EasyJoin
    • Related Posts
    • Tag Suggest and Autocomplete
    • Blog Categories
    • Forwarder
    • Comment Wall
    • Recent Comments Keyword
    • Logged In Users
    • Icons of Site Members
    • Calendar
      • Adding an Event
    • Upcoming Events
  • How to Remove Plug-Ins
  • Upgrading Plug-Ins
  • Summary

• Appendix A: Installing Elgg
  • Setting Up LAMP
    • Step 1: Install Linux
    • Step 2: Install Apache
    • Step 3: MySQL
    • Step 4: Install PHP Support
  • Setting Up WAMP
  • Installing Elgg
    • Editing config.php
      • Creating a Database
    • Initial Configuration
    • Important Settings
    • First Log In

• Appendix B: Elgg Case Study
  • Enabling Non-Profits in Colombia
  • Connecting Campuses Spread Across the UK
  • Other Elgg Networks
  • Summary

• Index

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