This document provides an overview and introduction to Elgg, an open source social networking platform. It outlines Elgg's core features such as user and content management, social graph functionality, and fine-grained access controls. The document also covers pre-installation requirements like PHP and MySQL, the installation process, post-installation account creation, and options for customizing Elgg through administration and plugins.

1. Introduction to ELGG
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Presented By:
Jorge Garifuna
info@GariDigital.com
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2. Agenda
1. Overview and features
1. Overview and features
2. Pre-Installation requirements
2. Pre-Installation requirements
3. Installation
3. Installation
4. Post-Installation
4. Post-Installation
5. Customize Elgg
5. Customize Elgg

3. Overview and features
 Elgg is a social networking framework
 It provides the necessary functionality to allow
you to run your own social networking site,
whether publicly (like Facebook) or
 internally on a networked intranet (like Microsoft
Sharepoint)

4. Overview and features
 To run Elgg, you need to have your own
web server
 a certain amount of technical knowledge –
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 access to someone who does, like a
system administrator

5. Overview and features
Core features
 User, object, file and site management
 Social graph functionality (relationships
between users and other users, objects
and sites)
 System-wide, tag-based searching
across all content and users

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Core features
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Fine-grained access controls
Multiple views, allowing for mobile applications and
embeddable widgets as well as the traditional web
browser view
Event, plugin and widget APIs
RSS, FOAF, XFN for content syndication
OpenID, OpenSocial
Open Data Definition and an increasing number of
data portability formats for import / export

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Core features
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An extensible RESTful API, with results in JSON,
serialised PHP or XML
AJAX through jQuery and user-definable callbacks
Easy extension for use with caching systems such as
memcached, for increased system performance

8. Overview and features
Built-in features
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Avatar
Dashboard
Friends
Groups
Profile
Widgets

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Optional plugins
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Blogs
Bookmarks
File repository
Messageboard
Private messaging
Pages
River
Status

10. Pre-installation requirements
 Requirements
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PHP 5.2+ needs to be installed as an Apache module
 GD (for graphics processing, eg user icon rescaling)
 JSON (for API functionality)
MySQL 5+ is needed for data storage
Apache Webserver with
 mod_rewrite
 PHP 5

11. Installation
1. Download from elgg.org
2. Uncompress in web
environtment
3. Create data directory
4. Access wizard from
browser(http://localhost/elgg)

12. Post-Installation
 Create administrator
account

13. Customize Elgg
 Administration
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statistics
site administration
user administration
tool administration
site categories (for pages)
default profile widgets
default dashboard widgets
customizing external pages (about, term, privacy, left/right pane)

14. Customize Elgg
 Plugins
Blog
Files
Pages
The wire *posting to twitter)
Twitter inclusion in your page
Groups
 Creating, joining, discussion and files
 Friends
 Adding and inviting
 messages
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15. Resources
Garinet Media Network
•http://www.elgg.org
Education

16. Installation Example
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17. How to Contact Us
Jorge Garifuna
info@GariDigital.com