Create your own social network, quickly and easily. Elgg allows you to take full advantage of the power of social technology with elegant, flexible solutions for organisations, groups and individuals.

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Awards

Bossie Award

Elgg wins best open source social networking platform 2008.

News

news and events Follow Elgg updates from the core developers on the Elgg shouts channel.

If you would like to hear what the main team behind Elgg have to say and get the latest in-depth reporting from the Elgg camp, check out the new Elgg news blog.

Commercial Services

Commercial Services Keep an eye on http://elgg.com for the soon to be announced commercial services for Elgg. This will include hosting, custom development, training, support and consultancy.

Mailing lists

If you are a developer interested in Elgg, there is a development mailing list for dev discussion.

There is also a mailing list set up for Elgg users.

Open Data Definition

Open Data Definition The Open Data Definition (ODD) is a new format for the import and export of data from within social applications. Data portability is an important issue, and it needs to be solved with practical solutions that work in the real world. Join the conversation and build it with us.

Elgg literature

Elgg bookPackt Publishing have released a book on Elgg Social Networking, by Mayank Sharma. It's a useful how-to guide for the classic Elgg codebase.