Build awareness through Google Alerts

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If you are overwhelmed with your daily to-do list but want to stay on top of the topics or areas which are of interest to you, you may want to consider creating Google Alerts. Key in “Google Alerts” in the Google search bar. The steps to create Google Alerts are quite simple.

You can create Google Alerts by choosing keywords on topics which are of interest to you. Google monitors the web on new contents which contain those keywords and notifies you by sending email alerts on those new contents to your email.

You can choose the frequency of the notifications. Do this over a period of time to build your awareness on your chosen topics.

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This post was first posted on Linkedin on 11 February 2021.

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