Hi all,

I wanted to give you an update about changes we are making to the Groups. We have over 30 groups on CIMAsphere now, and some of them are getting really big, while others are growing gradually.

You can see all the public groups listed here:
http://community.cimaglobal.com/groups/directory

We're making some changes to the Groups next week which should increase awareness of and hopefully participation in them, adding up to a more valuable experience for group members.

We've planned these changes after receiving comments, emails and verbal feedback over the last few months that the groups were not getting as much activity as expected, and that awareness of group content amongst group members was low.

SUMMARY OF NEW GROUPS ALERTS SYSTEM:

•  From now on, everyone who joins the groups (or is already in them) will automatically receive email alerts every time new content (discussion, discussion replies, news, events, documents) is added to the group. The default setting will be daily alerts.

•  You can unsubscribe from content alerts and change the frequency of updates on a per-group basis (eg. for the Managerial Level Study Group I could set my email alerts to come immediately, but set my alerts for the Excel and Access User Group to come daily, and so forth).

•  You can opt in and out directly from alerts at the top of each Group page, as well as from a new 'Notifications' dashboard that will appear in your Profile Manager.

•  The frequency of group updates can be set to: immediately, hourly, twice a day, daily, and weekly.

I will provide more details when the change is implemented in the next few days. Do let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,
Deirdre
(CIMAsphere community manager)