We begin with Profile Manager. Profile Manager by ColdTrick is arguably one of the most useful and most used GPL plugins for Elgg. Versatile, user-friendly and well engineered, this plugin provides a unique profile management framework, which is much needed by many Elgg-powered sites.

Shortly after the release of Arck’s Roles framework, it was clear to all that there is a necessity to ‘marry’ these two independent frameworks. The goals was to make Profile Manager aware of existing user roles, so that site administrators could manage and create role-specific profile types with corresponding categories and profile fields.

At its present state the bridge plugin creates a seamless synchronisation of roles and profile types. Changes in profile types trigger a change in user’s role, and vice versa.  While the roles framework, mainly concentrates on permissions of logged in users, the bridge allows to control what information is rendered based on the profile owner.

With some minor extensions this allows an novice administrator to greatly improve the registration experience, where specific sets of fields can be required for various roles. For example you wouldn’t want to request ‘Years of teaching experience’ from a user registering as a student, and you wouldn’t want to ask Professors for their ‘Current year of Bachelor’s studies’.

Arck’s “roles” and role-enabled “profile manager” plugins are GPL’d and available for download on our Elgg community profile, here:

• http://community.elgg.org/pg/profile/arckinteractive

Written by: Ismayil Khayredinov

We’ve partnered with the leaders of Angola’s first democratic opposition party to brand, design and develop a social network that will allow the party to elect candidates, vote on issues, raise funds and gain members. It’s a novel use of Elgg for a wonderful cause in a country that truly deserves liberty.

You can take a peek at the prototype (in development) here: http://www.juventudelaranja.com/.

Read more about the party here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Democracia.

Please join us in welcoming him!

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All menu items are located in a persistent, context-sensitive, left hand side navigation. Folks can check their news feed, groups, files and messages all from one menu. Groups use the same left-hand navigation, making it easier to get around.

Sports teams and followers also get all of the info they need. View upcoming games, track scores and get highlights all from the team’s new streamlined page.

And best of all, it’s faster. A lot faster.

Read the case study and sign up for a demo accocunt here

We’re proud to be “gold” sponsoring an Elgg Camp event for the third time. This year’s event will be hosted by our friends and partners from Condiminds on May 11th in Santiago, Chile. We wish we could be there but we’ll be in the process of relocating our offices.

ELGGCAMP is a nonprofit free even that seeks to promote the development of social networks through the use of Elgg, an open source platform developed for this purpose. In the same meet professionals from various fields to contribute their knowledge on the subject. Last ELGGCAMP BUENOS AIRES was held in November 2009 and 2010, with the participation of presenters of all kinds, from developers to specialists in Internet marketing and internal communications and Elgg entrepreneurs telling their success stories. The first issue more than 70 people attended only to hear about Elgg and its possibilities. In 2010 the attending crew grew up to 110 people!

First experience was taken as a presentation of the platform in Argentina. Was convened for this purpose, Brett Profitt, technical leader of Elgg, who also drives the growth of Elgg’s community. This is the main intention of ElggCamp Santiago 2011’s organization. Bring Brett to present the Elgg and get the entrepreneurial world of Santiago to know this great platform and it’s benefits.

The call for speakers will be extended to professionals of different expertness who usually work on daily basis with this platform. There will be specialists flying from Argentina and hopefully the United States, to let you know the possibilities on the use of Elgg and open a new road for entrepreneurial ideas. Also existing sites will be presented and time for a debate will be consider to fulfill all asistant’s expectations.

The mailing campaign will be sent to nearly 20,000 leaflets in different areas: Marketing, Human Resources, IT, design and development of both large enterprises and ventures. With which the sponsors will get visibility and conspicuous will be linked to the spirit of ElggCamp and the web 2.0 values, as collaboration, open dialogue, transparency and commitment. ELGGCAMP SANTIAGO 2011 will take place this year on May 11th at Santiago de Chile, at the auditorium of the Universidad Mayor which has capacity for 200 people seated and then Networking open space for participants to know each other and exhibitors in a relaxed environment.

See the official Elgg Camp BA site for more information.

In other Friday news, we’re thrilled to be back in the saddle with Trivantis Corporation. This time around we’ll be working together to develop the world’s first eLearning social network using the much beloved social platform Elgg. If my brain continues to function properly, this will be our 10th enterprise class social network built on top of Elgg.

We completed the third release of our private social networking application dubbed “The Vine” and secured five new customers.

We signed genius Mr. Ben Tomlin, Communications Director for Loyola Highscool, on as the third partner in our new venture, Arckware LLC. We’ll be working together to develop a bleeding-edge SaaS based online classroom environment.

Progress.

We’re psyched to announce that we are “gold” sponsoring Elgg Camp Buenos Aires, hosted by our good friends and partners down at Condiminds on November 11th and 12th. Day 1 of Elgg Camp will gather Elgg and Social Media experts from around the globe to discuss how Elgg is being used in various disciplines internationally. Day 2 will feature a code sprint ending with all plugins being uploaded to the Elgg community.

Who knows — you might even see us there!

See the official Elgg Camp BA site for more information.

Read more about Condiminds.