Elgg is a white label, open source social networking platform. It offers blog, networking, community, collecting of news using feeds aggregation and file sharing features. Everything can be shared among users with access controls and everything can be cataloged by tags as well.
Elgg is licensed under the GPL, and runs on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) platform. It can be setup to integrate with MediaWiki, Vanilla (forum) and Drupal, as well as use plug-ins to provide a calendar, a wiki and more. Details can be found on the main project website. Elgg was originally started by Ben Werdmuller and David Tosh, who subsequently founded Curverider. It has been under development since 2004.
Education
Elgg had gained a lot of traction in the educational sphere, where it has been positioned as a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) or as an Eportfolio tool.
It is also being used in the academic research sphere to support collaborating researchers.
See Also
External links
Official Elgg resources
News and press
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