Activity

A comprehensive activity stream which provides an at-a-glance look at activity from across the site, as well as your friends' activity and your own actions.

You can filter the activity stream to only include particular tools or types of action, making this a powerful addition to your social network.

Optionally, your activity stream can be the first port of call for users logging into the site - or you can use it alongside FAN2U widget-based dashboard. Users will be presented with the site's newest members and can post directly to the wire.

Profile

FAN2U comes with a set of default profile fields which can be extended or completely changed by the site administrator.

Using FAN2U's powerful widget framework, users can select from a bank of available widgets to create a full and rich profile.

An FAN2U profile acts as a great overview of a site member, pulling together their activity from the site, as well as from external sources.

Notifications

You can keep track of what your friends are doing through the notification method of your choice. Choose whose activity you want to subscribe to, and have it delivered using the notification method of your choice. Email and internal messaging are supporting out of the box, and further methods can be added via plugins.

Groups

Users can create groups around a particular topic and take advantage of a collaborative group discussion area, group files and group pages. You can create open groups that anyone can join, and closed groups, where membership is requested first and accepted or denied by the group owner.

Blog

FAN2U has a fresh new blogging tool with some useful added features:

• Save a draft (with autosave)
• Categories
• Conversation toggle
• Preview
• Rich media embedding (see below)

Embed media

The new media embed feature allows users to easily include their photos, audio snippets and files within blog posts, pages, comments, discussion topic and profile fields.

The modal window allows your users to upload resources and get access to the files they need while constructing their content.

Files

FAN2U comes equipped with a full file repository that will handle a wide variety of data including photos, word documents, audio files, videos, PDFs and more. You can easily flip between lists of files and image galleries, in order to comfortably find the item you're looking for.

Users can display their latest files on their profile and - using the media embed tool - embed any file into their content.

The wire

The wire brings microblogging to the core Elgg package - like having your own personal Twitter service. Users can post to the wire via the site and SMS (through an optional extra).

You can push wire posts out to Twitter so your users can localise usage while still taking advantage of their Twitter account - or you can deploy this to your intranet in order to allow your employees to keep up to date with their colleagues' current status.