Elgg, voted as the best social networking software for the year 2008, was developed by Ben Werdmuller and David Tosh in the year 2004. This powerful software enables you to create and post your articles & blogs, build community network, aggregate news via feeds etc. It supports multiple file sharing features also.
This software empowers individuals and social groups to establish their full-fledged social network supported with popular tools, which can customize the website as per the needs of their businesses.
Its new release, Version 1.5, gives you the control of monitoring your own actions along with keeping a track of your friends' activities also. You can also control your actions with the help of Elgg's great filtering system.
Elgg is administrator friendly software that entails a fine set of default outline fields and community management tools, which can easily be widened by the site administrator and customized as per the requirements of the website and its users. The users of the site can make use of the great widget structure of this software to create/build their detailed profiles on the website. For example, the user status widget fetches real-time updates of member's activities.
This open source software can be used by businesses around the globe to promote their own community websites. It encompasses a list of access controls that enable you to create tiered profiles of users. And its tagging features further help you to categorize and archive users' profiles.
Elgg has a unique spotlight feature that facilitates only a specific content to be flashed on the screen when the users are online. Further, your & your contacts' updates are displayed by the Activity stream. It has also got a number of notification options derived from messaging and emails to SMSs.
This impactful collaboration platform facilitates discussions between members of the community. Users can create groups and initiate discussions and the moderation features enable the administrator to moderate the comments from different users. A microblogging application paves way for varied levels of conversation. Community standards can also be easily set with its powerful content reporting system. Its log generation features monitor performance of the website and analyze the same besides maintaining security.
There are a number of Web Hosting providers in the market today that support Elgg such as LimeDomains, FatCow, BlueHost etc.
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