About

What if you took the best features of the social web and integrated them into a single product designed specifically for collaboration?

Introducing Elgg - Built to be social from the ground up elgg.com screenshots
  • Elgg is an award-winning social platform, delivering the tools and resources that enable organizations to create their own fully-featured social hub. It was started in 2004 specifically for the education market and has grown to become the platform of choice for thousands of networks worldwide, with users including universities, schools, governments and businesses.
  • Whether you're looking to improve collaboration within your organization, promote learning and knowledge sharing amongst your students or employees, or power-up communication with clients, prospective students, alumni, or the wider web, Elgg is a great choice.

Meet the team behind Elgg
  • We're Curverider, the team behind Elgg. We make socially-enabled software that helps organizations to get everyday tasks done. We're open, social and collaborative - just like our software - and we work with an impressive team of Advisors who help us evaluate where we're going and how best to get there.
  • Curverider is privately owned and is backed by Thematic Capital Partners LLP.

  • David Tosh, Product Lead With a background in web based environments for education, Dave co-founded Elgg in 2004 and was instrumental in overseeing it's growth to become a leading social engine across the education, government and business sectors.
  • Richard Owen, Commercial Development Rik has a background in business development and marketing with a number of high profile businesses in the finance and media sectors. He's the guy to talk to about getting Elgg in your organization.
  • Brett Profitt, Lead Developer Lead Developer. Brett is instrumental in ensuring Curverider produces intuitive, social-enabled software. He draws on technology expertise and his experience as a teacher to make sure Elgg delivers practical benefit for organizations.
  • Pete Harris, User Experience Pete has over 15 years of experience building out solutions for companies such as the BBC, Land Rover, Boots, M&S, Natural History Museum, NHS, Computer Weekly, and New Scientist. He uses this expertise to ensure Elgg delivers a great user experience.
  • Nick Whitt, Web Services Nick is an expert in database design and web services architecture with a decade of experience producing business critical solutions for the education market.
Who is using Elgg?
  • Harvard University
  • University of Florida
  • Oxfam
  • University of Calgary
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Stanford University
  • Saugus School District
  • The State of Ohio
  • Oregon State University
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Advisors
  • Matt Fix is a Principal at Vodafone Ventures, a $200M fund focused on the mobile and digital media space.
  • Leonard Lin has spent more than a decade developing social media and online community tools for the Web.
  • Sasan Salari has been immersed in technology since 1995 as one of the founders of eLearning software WebCT.
  • Biz Stone is the co-founder of Twitter, a global service for the social exchange of news, ideas, events, and more.
Jobs
  • Are you a php guru or enthusiastic LAMP system administrator? Do you constantly have creative ideas for solving issues on the web? Then we have some exciting opportunities for you.
  • What we can offer:
    • Work from any location
    • Competitive remuneration
    • An exciting, dynamic environment
  • If interested, send a short covering email with your resume attached to jobs @ this domain.