Elgg is an open source social networking platform and was voted the best of its kind in 2008. It allows you to create a social hub for education or your company. It may be an academic institution or a niche industry. You need not be concerned that a third party will suddenly close down your service for no apparent reason. It includes a Profiles section, Blogging, Social Bookmarking and Activity. Elgg cloud hosting offers overall control in a private cloud server.
Building trust amongst members in one’s community takes time. These trusting communities are very valuable. When a third party has the power to remove this community from you for no apparent reason this can cause some genuine concern. Elgg cloud hosting allows the user to import the valuable data about the community as well as to have it migrated to your servers.
Profiles can be customized to meet the needs of your audience. They are helpful in finding other people with similar mindsets and encouraging future collaborative work. Similarities can be established regarding locations, job function and other key features. In Elgg there is no limit to the number of profile groups you want to create.
It offers real time updates on channel activity, group activity and site activity. You can keep your finger on the pulse of your community of individuals who share the same interests that you do. Updates will indicate how actively certain individuals are using the community for interacting with others. If you are looking to collaborate with others and wish to do it within controlled parameters it is possible to do this.
The frequency of activity will help you to ascertain what academic institution to collaborate with. You can extend your network to other campuses. The sharing of content is as simple as uploading files and images. The just need to be tagged so that others in the community can comment.
Community photo albums are created and news services with RSS feed are added to the community site. Videos from You Tube are added to a growing video library. There is a lot of potential to grow your own community on this platform. It is similar to other social media sites in that it offers virtually the same services and more.
One person controls the admin panel. No one else will have access to it so only you are administering to your community. As the popularity of social media platforms grows the frustration of how some are being managed has members concerned. There are already too many instances where members of free sites have had their accounts erased for no reason.
This innovative platform has some free SEO friendly themes. One is called the Redpod theme where it uses the red, grey and white colours. There is also a Greenpod theme with green, black and white colour themes, a Blackpod and Red Fashion theme.
Elgg can be hosted on Amazon Cloud as well as several other hosting companies such as Arvixe and HostUpon. Cloud computing is still in its infancy. For Cloud computing you can pay per hour also if you need the extra Cloud power for testing and development. When that is done then you can remove the Cloud.
Elgg cloud hosting offers its clients overall control. It offers alternative possibilities so that a third party is out of the picture. The growing interest schools and companies have to develop their own social media communities is keen since they want to control their own communities.
A cloud server service can have a variety of apps; many of these are offered by iCloud Hosting. Elgg cloud hosting is particularly great for those that wish to utilise the power of social networking
