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I remember when I first encountered Google Groups , I was a bit confused as to what my options were regarding notifications of new messages. To Google 's defense, the explanations are pretty straight-forward on screen, but I've noticed that students and teachers alike often get confused as to what their options are for reading the group to which they have just subscribed. Here's an attempt to clarify a bit more as to how you can choose to interact with your Google Group.

Go easy on me here, but I can't help but enjoy getting notifications on so many different things. I'm sure it will get annoying soon, but for now, I love getting Twitter updates, News alerts, Score updates, and more. I love how there are different sounds for each, and how they are all somehow pleasing to my ear. And I love that it just might make me more efficient in that I don't have to open all of these apps and instead rely on the notification for my content. Here's what I push and why I push it. I'll try to update this as more notifications come in. Sportacular - YES! My previous favorite sports/scores app gets push notifications, and they are much richer than those from SportsTap. Now, I can really find out when Gregg gives up another home run. SportsTap - to see whenever my Cubbies take the lead, or more likely, when they walk in another run (Marmol!!!) Prowl - to see Growls, but I don't like to keep my computer on all the time, so I use... ...