Tag Archives: buddypress

Some useful BuddyPress plugins

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Dave

BuddyPress is a plugin for WordPress that turns your site into a simple social network. It’s a remarkable thing, but I think it is fair to say that while it makes creating a social network easy, creating a good social … Continue reading →

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The home of GovCamp

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Dave

Over the past few years, a number of events have happened which could loosely be described as ‘GovCamps’ – taking the barcamp idea of open space style ‘unconferences’ and governmentising it a bit. Starting with Jeremy’s efforts in 2008, we … Continue reading →

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Social networks, or beefed-up blogs?

Posted on August 18, 2008 by Dave

I have been looking around recently at social networkings systems, focusing on freely available ones, such as Elgg (which powers the rather lovely UnLtdWorld, and which has its proper v1.0 release out soon) and PeopleAggregator. The other option I had … Continue reading →

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BuddyPress

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Dave

This looks very exciting. Thanks to Nick for the tip off. Edit: More via TechCrunch: It is easy to dismiss this as completely unnecessary given the abundance of social networks already out there, as well as application development platforms like … Continue reading →

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