Table of Contents for LWPS Features and Functions

1. Registration: Getting an LWPS account
   
2. Setting up your account
   
   
   1. Basic tasks
      
      
      
      1. Set option to receive email
      
      
      
      
   2. Advanced tasks
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Registration: Getting an LWPS account

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Set option to receive email

Purpose: If someone adds a comment to a post you created, you may want to know ASAP. Email notification is almost immeditate. Or if you mark a post as interesting, you may want to know when someone adds a comment to it.

Time Rqd: 1 minute

Instructions: Click on "Account settings" in upper right corner, then click on "Yes" button under "Receive email messages". You can also see these comments by clicking on view your activity in your right sidebar.

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Someday, Elgg developers will provide an easy interface for you to create links in your sidebars. Meantime, I've set up this post to help you create and maintain links in your “gold box” so you can quickly and easily navigate around your personal and community blogs in LWPS.

I create and maintain posts for my todo list, table of contents (of my key posts), my introduction and my LWP (LifeWork Profile) on my personal blog. I also create a todo list and a table of contents on any communities I create. I have found it very convenient to use the "orange box" to provide links to these posts.

Below are instructions on how you can do the same.

1. First you need to create the posts that you will link to from your "orange box".
   
   
   
   1. Click here to view a PDF file that contains templates for posts you may want to create.
      
   2. Choose a template (I recommend the first one - your introduction) and COPY all the text under the "Template" heading.
      
   3. Go to your personal blog, click on "Post a new entry" (in the upper left) and PASTE the contents into the "Post body".
      
   4. Select an access restriction of "Private" then save the post so you can see what the template looks like in its "raw" form.
      
   5. Click "Edit" to edit your post, and follow the instructions in the template text that you copied into the body. Save, review and edit until you are happy with you post.
      
   6. Repeat steps 1-5 for all remaining posts you want to create.
      
   
   
   
2. Now repeat steps 1-5 but this time find and COPY the text for the "goldbox" post.
   

Click "Comments" to post any comments or questions you may have about this process.

Introductions and the Table of Contents for the "LWPS/Elgg functions and features" community

I will add a comment to this post when I have added a significant post (or a significant addition to a post) in this community.

1. Significant posts on Elgg about new functions and features that will ultimately appear here on LWPS
   
2. Mailbox for this community
   

Click here to learn how to be informed when I or someone adds a comment to this post.

LWPS/Elgg features and functions (A very quick overview)

1. Elgg is the Open Source software that powers LWPS.
   
2. Tagging posts with pertinent keywords is the connective tissue in this system. It not only aids in organizing the posts, it also promotes social and professional networking. This is my "tagcloud" - an alphabetical listing of all of the tags I have used in all of my posts. They are all hyperlinks to each of those posts. More frequently used tags have larger font sizes.
   
3. Each post is easily and quickly accessible via keywords (tags) and hyperlinks. When sufficiently developed, this virtual mirror of one's self begins to take on the aura of a "virtual soul" which becomes even more powerful when distant family, friends, peers, mentors, counselors, etc. are invited to interact with you in your virtual (LWPS) and real environment.
   
4. Each post can be private, public or accessible by one or more people - such as a counselor, teacher, parent, friends, peers, potential employer, etc.
   
5. ePortfolio (eP) development (see my LWPS Profile) is rudimentary at the moment but will expand as Elgg (and LWPS) develops. The Elgg Roadmap has a line item to develop CV/Resume creation functionallity.
   
6. Here are all of the people on the Elgg development platform who are interested in ePortfolios in some manner. The Elgg developers are keenly aware of the dichotomy between institutionalized ePs and learner centric ePs, as well as issues of interoperability. They have formed and will form alliances to address these issues in the near future.

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