Cloud Apps - Reasons Elgg Is A Great Selection For Social Networking

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.

Everyone will agree that it takes time to build the trust of the people in your social media community. This is a valuable community and to entrust it to a third party does have its risks. With Elgg cloud hosting the data can be imported and backed up or it can be migrated and sent to your own 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.

If you are interested in collaborating with another academic institution you can also do this. The network can be extended to as many campuses as you wish. The sharing of documents is as easy as uploading files, pictures and once they are tagged allowing others in the community to comment.

You can also create a photo album for your community, add your news services with RSS feed and add videos from You Tube to a video library. The video library can be yours or the groups. You are essentially creating a similar community as you would have on a popular platform like Facebook but it cannot be shut down.

You control the admin panel. You do not have to be concerned about any unexpected surprises of someone else at the controls suddenly dictating to you how you should be running your community. This is the difference between Elgg and the popular free social media sites that people are using.

There are several SEO friendly themes for people to choose from. The tricolor generic look includes red, grey and white or green, black and white to name a few. The recommendation is to keep it simple so that the colors are easy on the eyes and become familiar for the users.

Amazon Cloud has proven to be an excellent hosting company for Elgg. Hosting servers that are recommended are Arvixe and HostUpon. Cloud computing is still in the early stages of development so for newcomers, they can learn about it in stages. It is possible to pay by the hour for testing and development.

Elgg cloud hosting offers overall control. Many companies and educational institutions are interested in starting their own social media platform but are not comfortable with third party control over their data. Elgg offers them an alternative solution.

by: Dirik Hameed

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