Paglo Community

The Paglo community is a body of dynamic users from around the world. Paglo serves as a ‘community of record’ for IT professionals that you can use to grow your career. Tap into the wisdom of other Paglo users to solve your most gnarly problems, brainstorm about new ideas, and use the Paglo forums for business networking. The Paglo community connects you with others in your field, which helps you get your job done and gives you a platform to demonstrate your smarts.

You can get involved in the Paglo community by:

Share-its

Share-its are searches, dashboards, alerts, plugins, and blog posts that members of the Paglo community have contributed for anyone to use. Get involved in the Paglo community by creating Paglo Share-its. You can benefit from the collective wisdom of your peers by using Share-its that others have created, too. You'll find share-its on the Paglo Community page.

Forums

Get involved in the Paglo community by exchanging helpful information via Paglo's forums and discussions. You can benefit from the collective wisdom of your peers by using Paglo to ask questions, discuss gnarly IT problems, share insights, and tap into the collective wisdom of the IT professionals out there. You'll find forums and discussions on the Paglo Community page.

User profiles

Another way to participate in the Paglo community is to have fun with your User Profile. Your Paglo tag appears on the upper right corner of the Community page, and serves as your public face by which your fellow Paglo users can recognize you. You can give yourself a handle and an avatar, and share interesting things about yourself, such as your blogs or your favorite technology.

Ranking

Paglo has a system of ranking both Paglo users and Share-its. Display your smarts and climb the ranking ladder by contributing your own searches, dashboards, alerts, plugins, and blog posts. Evaluate the Share-its that you use so that the best ones rise to the top.

Ranking users

Paglo values outstanding achievement in the field. One way the Paglo Community recognizes that achievement is with achievement badges.

How would you rank yourself? Are you a Firefighter who just got going, or a powerful, use-it-in-your-sleep, Paglomaniac?

Firefighter
Big iron
Force of nature
Alpha geek
IT hero
Paglomaniac

Want to get to the next level? Here's a hint: your ranking is influenced by your activity, participation, and use of Paglo, such as the number of searches, dashboards, or alerts you have used or contributed to the community, how much you comment on forums or blog posts, and so on.

Saved searches and dashboards include the username of the creator so that you can be recognized for each of your contributions to the community.

Ranking Share-its

Evaluate the Share-its that you use so that the best ones rise to the top. Saved searches, dashboards, and alerts are ranked based on criteria such as the amount of use, with weight given towards recent usage and user ratings. Comment on quality by ranking the saved searches, dashboards, and alerts that you use on Paglo.