A brief introduction to Google Groups. Some links will not make sense out of context. However, the Further Information links at the end of the slides may be useful.

1. LTAIG PG Google Groups

2. Why Google Groups you say? Encourage local discussion, without the need to post to the main LTAIG list-serv If you want on or off the list you can do so yourself Avoids the need of trying to synchronize different email distribution lists It’s free!

3. Sign up for a Google Account Easy to do and can take advantage of many Google featuresincluding email, iGoogle, Docs and many more Sign up here

4. Join or Invite new people Search for our group using ltaigpg as the term Or click here

5. Edit my membership Changesettings to receive emails of discussion posts at an address of your choice Select Edit my membership Under “How do you want to read this group?” choose either: no email, digest email, or email

6. Posting to the Group Easy peazy, click on new post

7. Opt in/Opt out new Google Groups User Interface Simply go to the overview page of the new Groups interface Click "Switch to the new Groups" button Once you receive confirmation that the new Groups is your default interface, you will also have the option to switch back to the old version.

8. Unsubscribing from the group We’ll be sad to see you go Reply to an email from the group with REMOVE ME as the subject Edit my membership, at the bottom, click Unsubscribe. Send an email to groupname+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com

9. Any questions?

10. Further Information Google Groups, getting started http://www.groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1046906 Other ways we could use Google: Sites, Docs http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=1046705 List of Google products from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products Difference between blogs and wikis http://mplictechtrain.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-is-difference-between-blog-and.html