How do you stay informed?
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If you are responsible for being an expert about a specific topic it is very important to stay informed on that topic. How do you do that? You can curate information using Google Alerts. By using this feature you will receive a message when content you have tagged as important is published online.
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Catch all important updates using Google Alerts. Use your existing Google account or sign up for a new one, (you can learn about their policies here). Go to www.google.ca/alerts <https://www.google.ca/alerts>.
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Create an alert using any relevant words including names of people. You can use Boolean operators as well. For example, if you want to receive an alert for the word “informationâ€, “informâ€, “informedâ€, or “informing†you can enter “inform*†the asterisk captures all words that start with those letters.
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Settings wheel:
Set delivery time: This is a handy way to manage the emails. Rather than getting a message whenever content is published, you can have one message sent with a list of each piece of content. You can also set the time you want to receive the content.
Digest: Receive all alerts in a single email. (This will abbreviate the list, you may miss content)
Flag as irrelevant: If you need to search a word like “senior†you will receive alerts for a number of different uses for that word, for example both elderly people and people in their last year of US high school. Use the flag as irrelevant option to customize your alert.