Elgg is a full featured open source social networking platform that empowers individuals, groups and communities to create their own fully-featured social network community. Elgg can easily help you to find out a better solution for you social networking site. You can use Elgg for social, business, and education networks. If your looking to leverage social networking for your own purposes, there are endless possibilities in utilizing Elgg’s vast features. From the administrator to the user experience it is a breeze to maintain the network, manage and track activities, create blogs, upload files and share, and add the third party widgets like twitter.
Elgg provides the advantage of granular RSS, Open Social, OpenID (client and server), FOAF, an extensible RESTful API with results in JSON, serialized PHP or XML, alternate views on a site which allow for easily creating rich mobile applications and powerful event, plugin and widget APIs.
Below are just some of the features you will find in Elgg. If your looking to build your own social network, click here to contact us. TECKpert can provide many types of elgg services and solutions including theme customization, plugin and widget development, configuration, and deployment.
- Activity Feeds
- User Profiles
- User Dashboard
- Profile and Group Widgets
- Email and Site Notifications
- Groups
- Blogs
- Photo Sharing
- Video
- Twitter Integration
- Pages
- Social bookmarking
- Site wide categories
- Access Control
- Site Administration
- Plugins
Elgg has received much fan-fare and industry awards including InfoWorld’s 2008 Best Of Open Source Awards.
