Comments on: Corporate Social Networking Part 1: Elgg

By: Hans de Zwart

Hans de Zwart — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:57:58 +0000

Thank you! I am affraid that that was the default Elgg theme at the time. Does your question mean it looks different now?

By: Matheus breu

Matheus breu — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:55:37 +0000

Hi Hans de Zwart,
Thats a good review! Nice job
Do you know what is the Elgg theme used in pics?
Tks

By: PLANETwebfoot

PLANETwebfoot — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:15:52 +0000

Thanks for providing us with this information about corproate social networking. Certainly Elgg may be useful in some professional environments, but from my experience one of the most important features of corproate social networking is branding, and with the use of Elgg businesses cannot control that.

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By: Iryna

Iryna — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:15:28 +0000

Elgg is really one of the best in social network development. We have experience in work with Elgg. And during the recent
time we are working on development of social network for medical workers on Elgg framework.
Description of this social network you can find at http://www.web100.com.ua/eng/expertise/social-networks/index.html

By: Hans de Zwart

Hans de Zwart — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:57:15 +0000

Hello Ranjit Abraham, I am sure there are many developers that would be willing to help you tweak your site. Just become a member of the Elgg community and ask around. Kind regards, Hans

By: Ranjit Abraham

Ranjit Abraham — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:46:03 +0000

I am looking in developing a Social networking site where anyone could create a username/password but will be restricted in access to many a resources of the site until he/she submits their actual identification by post. In short – members are those who have been authenticated. As I am not an Elgg developer I would like to know for the above mentioned custom social network, will it be possible to find developers who can tweak Elgg and develop the site?

By: Hans de Zwart

Hans de Zwart — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:56:02 +0000

Hey Joost,

Thank you for your comment. I will read Alan Levine’s post with much interest. You point about the nature of networks moving out of the organisation is very valid. I am acutely aware of that problem: the draft of my next post was already titled “the inside/outside paradox”!

Ciao, Hans

By: Joost

Joost — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:02:43 +0000

Hi Hans,
Thanx for this post..looking forward to the business case. One of the main why to use an corporate social network site is perfectly explained by Alan Levine ( http://cogdogblog.com/2009/02/16/stingy-facebook-gets-none-of-my-media/ )…A huge drawback i believe would be that networks in its nature move beyond the borders of an organization. Most innovation stems from people connected from different communities. Most implementations of tools like elgg tend to close these borders. That a thing we should keep in mind.

Joost

By: Hans de Zwart

Hans de Zwart — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:40:14 +0000

No I didn’t know the Dutch OU used Elgg…
Lack of licensing costs is one of the true advantages of open source allowing organisations to put up these custom Moodle, Elgg or Drupal installations that just perform a single task. In the case of the OU: a shared blogging engine for Celstec.

Thanks for the comment!

Hans

By: wytzekoopal

wytzekoopal — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:56:02 +0000

Thanks for writing this thorough writeup of the Elgg platform. It highlights perfectly several strengths (like status, tags, groups) of the platform, that I haven’t seen elsewhere in this integrated fashion. Did you know that Open University uses Elgg? http://elgg.ou.nl