Southern New Jersey Overlook

ActiveRain (AR) is a great resource for people in the real estate industry.  Bedsides the opportunity for general networking at the site level,  AR provides a way for those with special interests within the AR community to connect and share among themselves, though Groups. 

Groups can be started by any registered member of AR for any reason and almost any purpose.  

To create a new Goup, all you have to do is click on "Groups" at the top of any AR page, then select "Start a new page".    You will then see the Create Group entry page:



Fill in ALL the information.  (Note: If you don't have a logo for you're  Group, you can add it later, but almost all groups have a logo and it's how people will find and recognize your Group, especially if you want others to join.  Not having a logo immediately indicates to most people that the founder has little interest and provides minimal or no support of the Group.)

After filling out the Group information, all you need to do is click the "Create Group" button and your Group is live!

Once your Group is live (active), you will have access, as the Founder, to all available Group administrative controls. 

Each time someone joins the group, they will automatically be assigned as a member with the ability to post to the group by default.

You can change that status by accessing your group (from your "My Home" page under "Groups"). 

My Home --> Groups --> <select a group> --> Members --> Role

The group page, if you are a Founder (or Administrator) will allow you to change the "Role" of each group member.   "Role" is a combination of rights and privileges assigned to each member.  

The "Role" image to the right shows what role is available for each member -- what you will see if you are a Founder or Administrator. 

Founder == Administrator, the only difference being that the Founder is the one that started the group and the only one that can delete a group.
That means the Founder and Administrator can feature/remove posts and also make changes to a member's "role" (assigning new administrators, changing member to post/no post, blocking someone from the group).  

Moderators have the ability to feature posts (as do Administrators and Founders).

Members can add a post (i.e, assign their individual blog post) to the group.

For more general information about Groups see the following ActiveRain article:

http://activerain.com/blogsview/24564/Groups

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