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QUICK START:

• 1. Decide which* of your email addresses you want to use for receiving and sending email from and to our Google Group.

     1. If that is a Gmail email address, skip step 2.

  2. Go here for a New Google Account (if you don't want Gmail).

• • 1. https://accounts.google.com/NewAccount

• 3. After you're signed in to your account (or Gmail), please "apply" for our Google Group.

• • 1. We can't put you in w/o your involvement — this must be a deliberate action on your part.

* You can join with multiple email addresses (one at a time).

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NOTE: you are responsible for updating your own email address(es) on our group site.

Reference: Quick Start Document

Some Member Benefits:

• 1. receive email intended for our group or otherwise gain access to the communications

  2. add or edit pages of this website

  3. see a more detailed calendar on this website

  4. access our group website (not this public site) and conveniently navigate to other groups you may belong to.

  5. receive the letter package early - securely distributed as intended: on the web; downloaded pdf/doc/etc.; smart-phone, etc.

  6. have a dynamic package that may receive new letters and updates throughout the year(s)

  7. add to and edit group map(s)

  8. add to and edit group calendars

  9. be able to collaborate on shared electronic files

  10. gain access to personal, free, electronic storage of files, photos, movies, etc.

  11. control, or share, documents you release to this group or others

  12. have a page (Google Doc) linked from your yearly letter shared ONLY with our Google Group for photos, contact info, links, English names, etc.

  13. access the Group-only portion of this website

  14. make a public announcement which shows up on the homepage

  15. get email if someone adds a message to the public announcement on the homepage (must subscribe)

  16. get email if someone adds a group-only announcement (must subscribe)

  17. easily send email to the whole group using the group's one email address

  18. have an alternative way to send messages to the group (rather than emailing the one group address you can post directly from the group site)

  19. read/access any communications you may have missed (egs before joining the group or after your outlook crashed) from our group site

  20. configure if and how frequently you get email from the group

  21. help the letter pkg coordinator out by adding and updating your email address on our google group's site.

  22. get an email when someone submits the form on the Contact Us page (must tell website administrator you want this)

  23. become a website administrator for this website if desired

  24. become an administrator for Our Google Group if desired

  25. Comment about this website or read comments from other group members

  26. suggest how to make this website better by adding to the TODO list for this website.

  27. Browse the results of group surveys to learn how people feel about the letter package over the years.

  28. Access a webpage test area where you can see works in progress.

  29. Link to your websites or embed: Picasa albums, Google Documents, Spreadsheets, Forms, Presentations, etc. For example, the photos on this page are in an embedded presentation. 

  30. Add to this list of why people of the Fall 1986 Omnibus to Lesotho should get a Google Account & join Our Google Group!