Google Groups is a great way for you to connect with family, clubs, teams, organizations, and businesses. Since most people have Internet service and an email address, they should be able to participate. Here's how to get started:
1. Decide on a name for your group. You can make it something simple and easy to remember, or try to be creative and fun to catch people's attention.
2. Go to google.com/groups and click the "Create a group..." button on the right side. You will see a form to fill out basic information about your group.
3. The first section is for the name of your group. When you type your group name, the group email and website address is automatically filled in matching the group name exactly. For example: Belleview 4-H Club would be belleview-4-h-club at googlegroups.com and the web address would be groups.google.com/group/belleview-4-h-club. You can leave the email and web address the way it is, or edit them from the email address box.
4. Next, specify whether your group may contain adult content, and whether you want your group to be public or private. There are more details on this page to clarify what these options mean.
5. Click "Create my group" at the bottom.
6. You will be redirect to a page where you need to type random characters so they know you are human (robots can be created to set up accounts, but can't read these letters and numbers). Type the characters, then click "Create my group" again.
7. Now you can type the email addresses of all the people you would like to add to your group. You can write a personalized message telling your friends/family/colleagues what the group is about, etc. Google will automatically send out email invitations to your potential group members when you click "Invite Members", or, you can click "Skip this step" to do this later. NOTE: If you have already discussed this group with the members that will be joining, you can add them without inviting them. If this is the case, click "Add members directly" and type their email addresses in the box below and check the email subscription options below. Each email will begin receiving messages and notifications from the group right away. This will save the members the step of accepting your invitation before they can start getting messages. This feature should not be used unless you are certain that the members already want to be a part of your group.
Now your Group is ready to begin! Here are some additional options you will have to use and customize your group:
*Start a discussion-all you need is a title and topic and you can get started getting the group underway. You or a group member can start one or multiple discussions at a time of about issues and topics that interest you as a group. They can be serious, funny, interesting, an appeal or mandate, a brainstorming session, etc.
*Add or Invite members-as your circle of friends or club grows, more people can be a part of the group. You may want to invite parents, sponsors, and other interested parties to your group.
* Create pages-this group is a website, and websites have pages. You can have an info page, fun page, or have a mission statement or rules page, etc.
*Upload files-if there are minutes, fliers, photos, etc. that would contribute to your group, you can upload them for everyone in the group to view.
*Customize the group settings-you want your group to be unique, and your pages to have their own look and feel that will suit the interests of the group. Here you can make advanced changes to who has access to what, the appearance of the site (colors, layout, and theme), set up categories, and many other changes.
1. Decide on a name for your group. You can make it something simple and easy to remember, or try to be creative and fun to catch people's attention.
2. Go to google.com/groups and click the "Create a group..." button on the right side. You will see a form to fill out basic information about your group.
3. The first section is for the name of your group. When you type your group name, the group email and website address is automatically filled in matching the group name exactly. For example: Belleview 4-H Club would be belleview-4-h-club at googlegroups.com and the web address would be groups.google.com/group/belleview-4-h-club. You can leave the email and web address the way it is, or edit them from the email address box.
4. Next, specify whether your group may contain adult content, and whether you want your group to be public or private. There are more details on this page to clarify what these options mean.
5. Click "Create my group" at the bottom.
6. You will be redirect to a page where you need to type random characters so they know you are human (robots can be created to set up accounts, but can't read these letters and numbers). Type the characters, then click "Create my group" again.
7. Now you can type the email addresses of all the people you would like to add to your group. You can write a personalized message telling your friends/family/colleagues what the group is about, etc. Google will automatically send out email invitations to your potential group members when you click "Invite Members", or, you can click "Skip this step" to do this later. NOTE: If you have already discussed this group with the members that will be joining, you can add them without inviting them. If this is the case, click "Add members directly" and type their email addresses in the box below and check the email subscription options below. Each email will begin receiving messages and notifications from the group right away. This will save the members the step of accepting your invitation before they can start getting messages. This feature should not be used unless you are certain that the members already want to be a part of your group.
Now your Group is ready to begin! Here are some additional options you will have to use and customize your group:
*Start a discussion-all you need is a title and topic and you can get started getting the group underway. You or a group member can start one or multiple discussions at a time of about issues and topics that interest you as a group. They can be serious, funny, interesting, an appeal or mandate, a brainstorming session, etc.
*Add or Invite members-as your circle of friends or club grows, more people can be a part of the group. You may want to invite parents, sponsors, and other interested parties to your group.
* Create pages-this group is a website, and websites have pages. You can have an info page, fun page, or have a mission statement or rules page, etc.
*Upload files-if there are minutes, fliers, photos, etc. that would contribute to your group, you can upload them for everyone in the group to view.
*Customize the group settings-you want your group to be unique, and your pages to have their own look and feel that will suit the interests of the group. Here you can make advanced changes to who has access to what, the appearance of the site (colors, layout, and theme), set up categories, and many other changes.
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