Elgg – social networking platform – Prankk.com

11:13 AM in Programming, Social Networking by Vic Russell

Elgg is a very easy to install and get up and running social networking platform.  It took me about an hour to get a rudimentary site up.  Another 4-6 hours or so to learn the admin, add-on, permissions, etc features.

Elgg is Elgg-egant.  I love it.  It is simple in it’s look and feel.  It just does what it says it will do, out of the box, without much customization.

See my sample site – Prankk – here.  This is a prototype site that includes links to YouTube and Hulu videos (streams).  Link / embed and then view like you want to.

In the next week, I am going to migrate this to a live server for go-live use, mixing in some type of reward for the best page compilation, the most friends added, and other such activity.

One of the issues I do have with Elgg is that for the USER of the site, it isn’t that intuitive.  Before any serious rollout is considered, I would strongly suggest creating the essential help pages and hovers that will otherwise confuse users.

Until then, here is the link:

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