subject: A Glance Into The Rising Demand And Popularity Of Elgg [print this page] There is no dearth of social networking sites available today. You can join these sites to stay connected to your near and dear ones. However, you can now make one for yourself for which all that you need is open source software. Such software are free for social networking. You can easily download it from the virtual world of internet and install it in a matter of a few days or weeks. Elgg open Source is used for creating social networking platform. You can get it free of cost. Bed Wertmuller and Dave Tosh created and released it in the year 2004. In 2011, the software underwent a code re-write, and you can now get it in the latest version 1.6.2
As a matter of fact, Elgg is much more than social networking. You can do so many things on a single platform. It supports an array of various other social media tools like bookmarking, RSS feeds, wikis, micro-blogging and blogging, to name a few. Considering all these reasons, it is certainly not difficult to understand the reason for its growing popularity. It offers everything that one looks for.
It can be used for social learning as well as collaborative working. Founders of Elgg fondly call it a learning landscape. There is so much to do that it will only add to your present knowledge. It is especially designed for educational purpose.
There is a difference between Elgg Open Source and Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)? Elgg focusses on the interactions of the learner whereas VLE concentrates on the delivery of content and the course. Using Elgg, a learner exercise his or her thoughts freely for it is an informal space. It as a platform is all about a learner where you can make your own connections without having to go through the intricate structure and approach of VLE. With Elgg, you can feel and discuss real life.
Although there are several media tools available for the public, they are not user-friendly. For some its challenging to work on these tools but not everyone is able to cope-up with the daunting task. It is here that Elgg open Source comes into play. It lets you organise, make and manage personal contacts along with it you can work with other users in order to share and co-create contents. No more you have to worry about privacy and security issues as Elgg allows you to choose your own privacy setting.
