“Elgg is an open-source social networking platform. It offers blogging, networking, community, collecting of news using feeds aggregation and file sharing features. Everything can be shared among users with access controls and everything can be catalouged by tags as well.” http://elgg.org
Elgg connects learners together by providing web space for files, profiles of learners, tagging to connect resources, blogging and forums for collaboration. It is used effectively by Brighton and Leeds Universities. It is open source (meaning that we can freely use and customise the code) but does require a slightly more adavnced web server to run - this is where the costs of spproximately £250 are neede to host the website. It is a social network for learning.
Elgg, Leeds University, http://www.lts.leeds.ac.uk
Elgg, Brighton University, http://community.brighton.ac
