Welcome to the ActiveRain Techology Group!
 
This group is for anyone interested in technology and it's application in our businesses -- to enable ourselves and our employees to be more efficient, productive, communicative and provide improved service -- and to help allow our daily lives to be easier and more enjoyable .
 
While our primary focus will be on computer, information management, security and Internet related topics, we will also look at other technology tools, trends and concepts as desired.
 
This group is also for all "techies", "techheads", "geeks" and anyone else who is interested in learning about and taking advantage of technology -- you know who you are!

There are other groups within ActiveRain that cover specific technology utilization topics and this is not meant to compete with them.  We will be more sweeping in the areas that we cover, but we will also be free to explore issues in a more technical depth than posts geared to the general community.

Please feel free to contribute and to make any comments and suggestions about the direction this group should take and the topics for discussion.



Posting Guidelines -- Please read BEFORE posting any articles:  

While most of the posting criteria for this group is based on general ActiveRain guidelines, there are a few specific to this group (although most groups have similar ones):

1. No spamming... this includes personal advertisements, etc. 

If you want people to get to know you, we have provided almost unlimited means for you to do so...

First, start posting comments to group posts that are of interest to you and where you can contribute your expertise for the benefit of the rest of us.

Second, submit your own posts to the group, sharing your knowledge, incite, experience and ideas that will benefit the rest of us.
 
 
2. Stay on focus.
 
Just because you write a great post for which everyone may be interested, does not mean it should also be included in this group. 

For those that have the tendency or urge to do this, allow me to make a suggestion...
It will probably be better to post the majority of your posts in the [*** make appropriate substitution here ***] group which are more generic with respect to readers and not this group, unless you want to specifically apply it to this group as a tutorial.  

At some point you can customize a post for this group and reference the supporting general posts.

I believe you will have more readership for those situations.  (And extra AR points for the posts :-)

Otherwise, most people will see it as "noise" within the group and we are being "encouraged" to filter out as much "noise" as possible that does not deal specifically and directly focus on the objectives of this group.
 
 
3. Avoid ALL CAPS in titles.
 
While you think you are getting more attention that way, it actually does the reverse as most people view ALL CAPS in titles as either flaming, inexperienced poster, spam, immaturity or a combination of them.  ALL CAPS in the heading, while it may make you stand out, are actually harder to read and most people tend to ignore associating it with advertising.   In order to avoid the "spamming" look of other blogs, we will remove automatically (do not have the time to notify poster) any entries that are ALL CAPS in the title.  (If that happens to your entry, all you have to do is correct the title using upper/lower case and then resubmit.)
 
 
Let me know your thoughts and suggestions on how to continue to improve the group and its usefulness to the members.



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