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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Cloud Apps - Why Elgg Is A Good Selection For Social Media

By Briana Jake Woodward


In 2008 Elgg was declared the best open source social networking platform of its kind. You are able to create your own social hub for your educational institution or your company. With this platform you do not have to be concerned about a third party unexpectedly shutting down your service. The platform includes a Profiles area, Blogging, Social Bookmarking and Activity. A private Cloud host is used to have an Elgg cloud host.

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.

You can work together with other schools and you can make connections to extend your network with others. Document sharing is easy. Files can be uploaded very quickly. Images can be tagged and shared in the community.

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.

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.

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 provides the user with overall control. A growing number of companies and institutions have a desire to create their own social media platforms and do not wish to have a third party controlling their content and database. The Elgg platform provides them with freedom from intrusive third parties.




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