One Page Guide to Google Groups E-mail Lists

One Page GuideEven with all the amazing social web tools available out there – e-mail remains a key communication tool for most people.

For many committees, projects and associations – an e-mail list has a lot to offer as a co-ordination and collaboration tool. This morning I’ve been working on preparing a web presence for the DFID Civil Society Organisations Youth Working Group (a group of development agencies and youth charities focussing working with the Department for International Development to promote youth engagement and the role of young people in development), who are currently only online via the Youth Guidance Project. Because the Youth Working Group is essentially a network of organisations and individuals, with no permenant secretariat or central body – we’re building the whole web presence around e-mail lists for the central group and it’s sub-groups – set up to be open to anyone who wants to get involved. Content from the e-mail lists will be fed via RSS ito a website based on DokuWiki (a fantastically flexible and easy to use wiki).

This set-up will involve the chair of each sub-group managing their own e-mail list, and all the members or associates of the Youth Working Group understanding how an e-mail list works.

So – I took the opportunity to create a ‘One Page Guide to E-mail Lists with Google Groups‘.

You can download the PDF here, view the full thing below or on Scribd, and get the original to adapt for your own use in it’s original Open Office format, or MS Word if you prefer.

P.S. A slight tweak in the design this time, copying an idea from Amanda‘s adapted versions of the One Page Guides for 2Morro festival (under ‘Get Involved’).

5 thoughts on “One Page Guide to Google Groups E-mail Lists”

  1. Thanks for sharing this Tim. Great timing as well since I’ve decided to set up a Google Group email list for the Knowledge Hub community of practice. Brill!

  2. My groups, and many others (judging from the Google Groups help forum) have many subscribers who are not receiving the emails. Google doesn’t seem to respond to the help postings, and I can’t find any solutions out there. Have you heard of this problem? Know any solutions? We’ve tried all the usual things (check the spam box, add to allowed senders, etc, etc) to no avail.
    Thanks!!

  3. Hello Karen

    I’m afraid I’m not aware of anything that might help here. Will keep an eye on the groups I’m running to identify any issues…

    Tim

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