Summary

Community, collaboration, and conversation – three important aspects needed to make your social site…well, social. The groups tool is critical for encouraging collaboration and community development. The other tools covered provide complementary social capabilities. This finishes our exploration of Elgg and the plugins bundled with it.

In the next chapter, we cover how to find, install, and evaluate plugins in the Elgg community plugin repository.

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