Elgg Social Networking

Our Review…

Elgg is an award-winning social networking platform, delivering the tools and resources that enable businesses, schools, universities, groups, charities and associations to create their own fully-featured social network.

Elgg is an award-winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a campus wide social network for your university, school or college or an internal collaborative platform for your organisation through to a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients.

If you are looking to create your own social application, want to build and run a site for your organisation, or introduce a social layer into your technology stack, Elgg is a great choice.

 

Features – read more >

• Full standards compliance
• Customizable themes/templates
• Inventory control systems
• Powerful Data Model for different entities
• Activity Streams to push content to your users
• Plugin API’s to build and add your required features
• Comprehensive user management and privacy settings
• Access control and level permissions possible
• Multiple authors

 

Pricing – read more >
Whilst elgg is FREE open source software, it will require paid hosting in order to function. Hosting prices via elgg start from approx £19.28 p/month or are available from a number of other providers.

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We keep your costs low by using a collection of free or low-priced, open source and reliable facilities widely available on the Internet. “Function over style” is our motto. Use of technology really doesn’t have to be taxing on your people or your budget!