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title: "What is the best open source social network for enterprise?"  
description: "What is the best open source social network for enterprise?"  
author: "samay srivastava"  
published: 2018-03-03  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/36125/what-is-the-best-open-source-social-network-for-enterprise  
category: "social networking"  
tags: ["social network websites"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# What is the best open source social network for enterprise?

What is the best [open source](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/337437/how-to-leverage-open-source-for-innovative-project-development) [social network](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/110628/what-are-the-benefits-of-maintaining-a-positive-social-network) for [enterprise](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/246/enterprise-java-beans-ejb)?

## Answers

### Answer by Ankita Dwivedi

If we talk about different [Social](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/44257/the-impact-of-social-media-on-lawsuits) Media [Network](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23267/establishing-network-connections-and-other-fun-things-to-do-with-ethernet-cables) websites the only few names that comes firstly in our mind such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and so on. In today's era social network is also a great [source](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/102572/how-does-google-s-open-source-vulnerabilities-database-contribute-to-cybersecurity) of knowledge and awareness rather than just a chatting platform. You need to have deep knowledge of PHP, MySQL and Linux before developing or startup of any social network site. There are many free as well as paid scripts to create a social network some of them are as mentioned below,

- Elgg

![What is the best open source social network for enterprise?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/afc7f140-0821-4a04-8ce4-8e99fe416803/images/5a9ebf20-9011-4590-8c05-9d96e5472a82.png)

Elgg software is free to download and you can use this open-source source network Software to start a social network for school, colleges or even for an organization to built communities. It is flexible system with easy and simple installation process.

- Dolphin pro social networking software

![What is the best open source social network for enterprise?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/afc7f140-0821-4a04-8ce4-8e99fe416803/images/1ddfb871-35fc-4fe0-b988-e31523a71dab.jpeg)\

It is used for developing web communities and for creating custom social networks. It is written in PHP and database uses MYSQl. There are free also as paid services available.

- OpenSource social network (OSSN)

![What is the best open source social network for enterprise?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/afc7f140-0821-4a04-8ce4-8e99fe416803/images/bffe33cf-8a39-4205-ba78-1712ebe2925c.jpeg)\

OSSN is one the simplest OpenSource social network that permits groups, photos, file messages and lots of more.

- Humhub

![What is the best open source social network for enterprise?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/afc7f140-0821-4a04-8ce4-8e99fe416803/images/2a0bbebb-ad9c-4963-bcbe-f12f7854510d.jpeg)\

Humhub is free and open-source social network solution software designed just like Facebook that is user-friendly. It is flexible system with multiple tools that makes communication and collaboration easy for users.

- Buddy press

![What is the best open source social network for enterprise?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/afc7f140-0821-4a04-8ce4-8e99fe416803/images/6c178eac-c817-4f71-bda0-e5601f20032f.png)\

Buddy press helps you to create social media networking websites with wordpress and it is based on PHP.


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