Your inbox is so overrun, you want to open a new Gmail account and start over in life.  You didn't know about the discipleship group Pajama Jam until days later, when you read about it on Facebook.  Sounds like you need to manage your e-mail notifications. 

Please, Make It Stop (or Start)

If you are still getting acquainted with the new CRCC site, chances are you might have received a lot of automatic e-mails that you didn't want.

Oops.

The notifications are meant to help keep you in the loop with all of your group's activities, but sometimes they can be a little bit overzealous.  Luckily, this is easy to fix.  If you want to keep the volume of e-mail notifications slim and trim, you will first need to login with your username.

No problem so far, right? Good.

So, the first place you will want to go is My account.  This can be found by scrolling down to the same menu where you see your username (i.e. KELLYK).  You should find it right after My calendar.  When the My account page opens, you should see several headings with information about you. This is because you are very special.  No one else has this amazing feature.  Anyway, at the top of the page, there should be several tabs with titles like View, Bookmarks, etc.  The tab we are looking for is the Notifications tab.  Under the Notifications tab, you will be presented with an overview of your current notification subscriptions. Also, you will be very pleased to find another set of tabs!  Yay!

These tabs (i.e. Author, Content type, etc.) represent the various categories used to organize your notifications.  You can ignore them if you'd like.  The only tab we need to worry about right now is the Subscriptions tab.  After you have clicked on Subscriptions, stand back and be amazed.  You are looking at all of the current notification subscriptions associated with your account.

As You Like It

If you have gotten this far, victory is in your grasp.  You should now see several (or just a few) items listed - one for each type of notification you currently receive.  For example, you may see an item like this:

Church-wide, Photo

This means that you are subscribed to the Church-wide group, and you are receiving notifications for every Photo posted there.  Simple, right?  One way to manage these items is to go item-by-item, using the Edit and Drop options listed at the end of each line.  This is a good approach if you have four subscriptions.  But not if you have 444.

If you have TONS of subscriptions listed, it may be easier to edit your subscriptions in groups.  To group edit your subscriptions, just check the box next to each item you want to change, and use the actions in the pull-down menu next to the Update button at the top of the screen.  You can also use the pull-down menu to edit how frequently you receive e-mails (Immediately, Every Hour, Daily, etc.).  The available actions include:

Activate: Receive e-mail updates for the selected item

Deactivate: Temporarily disable e-mail updates for the selected item

Delete: Permanently disable e-mail updates for the selected item

NOTE: If you want all of your notifications to use the same settings, you can select all of your notifications using the check box next to Type, near the top of the page.  With all of your notifications selected, use the pull-down menu to edit all of your notifications at once.

What if I join a new group?

By default several notifcations are added to your account every time you join a new group.  You can set the default "Send Interval" for these new notifications by going to "My Account," clicking "Edit" and then scrolling to the bottom of the page.