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Join the Retired but Active Team

Submitted by webmaster on Thu, 30/10/2008 - 00:15.
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a retirement shared is a retirement improved

About Retired but Active

Retired but active is a group of Wiki sites for the over-50s consisting of

The sites are non-commercial and therefore independent and written exclusively by and for the over-50s

Membership

With retired but active you can be in contact with hundreds of people who share your interests and problems

Comments

Any visitor can access the 'open' areas of the 3 sites and comment on a page without becoming a member

Other Material

..but to prevent, as far as possible, the site being invaded by spammers selling pornography, drugs and dodgy loans, you need to become one before you can write articles on the site.

Membership Costs

Membership costs you nothing now, or in the future, and we don't collect personal data or sell addresses to third parties. It does not comit you to stay for longer than your interest survives.

Emails

We encourage you to set up alternative eMail addresses to keep your normal correspondence separate from your site correspondence

Roles within RbA

If you have an interest, and can type with at least two fingers you can set up your own group with RbA

Members

As an ordinary member you can use the forums and blogs, the chat room and gallery all free of charge and can also become a member of one or more of the groups that interest you.

You can also write pages to add to those interest groups and upload pictures to illustrate what you write.

Group Leaders

If you have an interest, whether profound or frivolous, you can start and lead your own group within RbA - your own website with forums, blogs, chat rooms and galleries, advice and comments

But I have some IT skills already

Well then you can use them here, either as a writer or group leader, or as in technical support helping to keep the sites up, running and interesting.

Skills

You can write for RbA, post your pictures, or even lead an interest group without the need for IT skills

You don't have to be Einstein

..writing articles for RbA requires nothing more in the way of IT skills than the ability to type with two fingers.

..and our simple tutorials will allow you to improve the appearance of your material if you so wish.

But I want to learn IT skills

..then RbA is the ideal place to learn. You can use simple HTML to start with and work up from there.




About You
Information we can release on the Web
Usually the username you log in with but can be different
We normally recomend that you set up a hotmail address separate from your normal one just for use with RbA
Not your full postal address
Items you don't mind publishing about yourself
Can be a picture of you, or something that tells us more about your character and interests
The Private You
Items for RbA Use Only
How we should address you in emails
Location
We don't need your address but it is useful to know where you're based
The city or area where you live or work - not compulsory but useful to us
IT Skills
Lack of IT Skills will never prevent you from submitting material to RbA
List the software you are familiar with
Your Interests
Shown Publicly on the Web
With Retired but Active
The roles in Retired but Active that could interest you
Tell us what role you would like to play in RbA, of any changes you would like us to make, or anything else you would like to say about the site