Tech Source Application

Author: Technology First

May 2010

The new and improved Tech Source application is now live on the Technology First site. Technology First created this interactive tool to help connect IT users and providers based on products, services, and solutions.Members are included in the Tech Source online repository as well as the business development referral service that connects IT buyers through in-depth profiles of IT suppliers.

To search Tech Source, you can simply go to www.technologyfirst.org and click on “Search Techsource” under the Tech Source tab on the main navigation.

If you are the administrator for your company, you can login to the site using the login drop-down,“search | login”, from the very top of the home page. Once logged in, you can start building your company’s profile.



The first step of the process is to go through and edit some basic information about your company for your company’s brochure page.This can be found under Tech Source on the main nav,“edit brochure page.” You can add your company’s contact information, your company description, technologies you produce, your clients and any partners you may have.

Any information placed in the ‘company description’ field or ‘technologies produced’ field will be searchable in the Tech Source search. After editing your company’s brochure, the next step is to edit your company’s taxonomy. By clicking on
“edit taxonomy” from the Tech Source drop down, you can go through and identify and “tag” the Applications, Infrastructure, Services & Software Development that your company provides. If you do not see the tag you are looking for, you  can add it by typing in the tag and hitting “create tag.”

Once you have completed the four sections, you will see all of the tags that are now associated with your company. If someone searches for “Intrusion Detection” and this is a tag
you have added under Applications, your company will now show up in Tech Source search. You can go in anytime and make edits to your company’s brochure page. Once complete, be sure to hit “update company brochure”
on the bottom left.