What is Elgg?
Elgg is an open source platform for building social websites, especially social networking sites. Now that sentence may require some parsing, so let's start with the fact that it is free open source software (FOSS). This means you are free to use it however you want, free to modify it, and free to redistribute it. Its development is managed by the nonprofit Elgg Foundation and developers from all over the world contribute code to make Elgg better.
Elgg is used to build social websites. It has social networking in its DNA and provides all the social features mentioned in the preceding section. Think of the buzzwords that you associate with social media: blogging, sharing, tagging, friending, or tweeting. Elgg does all of that.
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