Open Source Social Networking

[cbertsch]

I've used Live Journal in my teaching, with varying degrees of success, over the past three years. But I often wished for software that would allow me to create a closed social network without resorting to the whole friends-only approach, which some of my students inevitably failed to mater. Do any of you know about Elgg? It sounds promising, though I probably lack the skills to make it work without technological assistance. I'm wondering, for example, whether it might be possible to run an interactive publication with this sort of software.

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[e-compass-rosa.livejournal.com]

I don't know about Eigg. I tried out LJ in a class this year, also with mixed results, and also with my students just not being able to figure out the friends-only thing. I've been thinking about what to do in the future, especially with the phasing out of the Basic LJ account level. Do you know anything about Ning - http://www.ning.com/?