Elgg: Open Source Social Networking
The best open source social networking script I've found by far is Elgg. Developed as sort of a "myspace for academics," Elgg is a powerful social networking solution for any organization. Reasonably easy to install and customize, I'd recommend Elgg for any company or organization that wants to get up and running quickly and inexpensively.
When I say "reasonably easy to install" I mean, not as easy to install as open source web applications like Drupal, Joomla or Oscommerce, but with a little bit of server setting knowledge, and root access to your server, you should have few problems. Installation on a shared server could be a different story. Here are some posts describing some problems, solutions, and addtional info:
Adding Google Analytics to an ELGG Installation
ELGG Social Networking on Shared Hosting
I have a demo up here at http://www.fanclubhelper.com. Feel free to join, set up a community, customize your homepage, and generally test it out.
Labels: elgg, open source, social networking
posted by Bottlecap Napkin @ 8:09 PM
3 Comments:
It seems the Elgg development team has dropped the ball and left a lot of users high and dry on their help forums. For instance, it is not possible, from my experience, to successfully install the Elgg software on 1&1 Hosting servers. 1&1 is a huge hosting provider. Questions posted to the Elgg forum on the subject have gone unanswered for over 4 months. Looks dead to me. I've heard DrupalEd is great, so I will be testing that next.
Elgg one, is great. You should try the new version. The best company for hosting seems to be simpleservers. They did a free install for me within 2 hours of signing up. I was with fasthosts but their support was terrible.
http://www.simpleservers.co.uk/elgg_hosting.php
I agree Elgg is a great program. I'm assuming simpleservers is promoting the fact that they support Elgg, and I have no problem allowing comments that advertise that fact. However Elgg would be a better program if it were easier to install and configure, and you didn't need to go to a hosting company that had already climbed the learning curve. Ideally you should be able to install it with greater ease on a wider variety of setups, as is true with many other open source software package.
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