Building A Social Media Website For Your Organization

Maintaining effective communication between employees is an essential task in organisations, big and small, as a smooth work collaboration is the backbone of a well-coordinated team. With big organisations, the problem of ensuring effective collaboration is a colossal issue, which can be surmounted by a social media website that is especially built for an organization. Such a website can have features that render the following functions:

1. A Project Management feature which records the workings of employees on various project tasks and maintain records of employee’s work timings and attendance.

2. Ability to share relevant company news, information, links and media with all member employees

3. Chat feature that can enable employees to share instructions and relevant information with one another

4. Employees should be able to create profiles and view fellow employee’s profile

5. A Contacts directory with details of all employees

6. A section of important announcements

A website with such features can be created by a team delivering social media website development services.Let us look at the tools with which a social media website can be created:

1)SocialEngine: It comes in two paid options- SocialEngine PHP, which is a software as a service and thus, offers extensive customizability, and SocialEngine Cloud, which offers limited customizability and a service option that does not require any coding prowess.Core features of both, include extensive features related to member profiles, activity feeds, admin tools, content management, private messaging and etc. If you wish to create a customized website, then you must go for the former, which would require a skilled team of PHP developers who can deliver social engine development.

2)ELGG : This is an open-source tool which can be downloaded for free.It offers features such as blogging, file-sharing, networking, groups, and etc.Since, it is open source, it would require a server host provider, that can be found easily on the ELGG’s website. With reputable organisations such as Oxfam and University of Florida, using it, ELGG surely boasts of a good reputation. Thus, if you have an idea for an online social network for your organisation, you must employ a team delivering ELGG development services,that can bring your idea to life.

Thus, keeping in mind your budget and the features that you wish to integrate in the social network website for your organisation, choose the most ideal platform.