Elgg 1.9.4
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Last Updated: 2014-11-01 19:47:38
An award winning open source social networking engine, Elgg provides a robust framework for building all kinds of different social environments. This can range from campus wide social networking for universities or an internal collaborative for your platform or brand for your organization that can be used as a communications tool for your company and its clients.
Elgg is a jam packed with features that will allow you to start a blog, micro blog, file sharing website, networking website, and more. The software is also known for being the first platform to bring ideas from commercial social networking platforms to educational software. Elgg aims to make starting your social media website much easier and faster paced, while delivering your with the content you need to get started.
The software was started by Ben Werdmuller and Dave Tosh in 2004 and is based on informal papers they had written over the previous year. The two combined their experience and created a social media approach to learning things online. Dave Tosh designed the architecture and wrote most of the code.
You are able to download and use Elgg for free. It uses a GPL license. It runs on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) platform.
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