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"Nexo, the groups-creation and management site, has added some much needed upgrades to its service, which includes a handy email-reply option for responding to certain group activity.  This is enabled for forums discussions, but not for Q&amp;A or any other text response functions found throughout the site.  As a matter of fact, nearly all of the upgrades for Nexo are quite related to email and messaging options.  \nYou'll now receive alerts for group updates, and you also have the option of emailing polls, task updates, calendars, and more.  What's good about all of this new functionality is that it greatly simplifies the group-management process, and equally as important, it simplifies the group participation process.  What's bad about Nexo's upgrades is that it's taking this long to reach more of a level playing field for pretty much all group-creation tools out there.  \nAnd looking at some of Nexo's other tweaks, such as the ability to add email-only members without their needing a Nexo account, move the service in the direction of email marketing or list-serve management, focusing on the dispersement of email notifications and newsletters.  \nThese tools serve their purposes, but I must say that Nexo's updates are, for the most part, lackluster, simply because much of the upgrades are quite standard for tools found in other services like Yahoo Groups, or even internal groups for an existing social network.  Nevertheless, I'm a fan of email integration, so I'm hoping to see that this functionality will be further integrated through more of Nexo's group communication tools. \nEditor\u2019s note: apologies to Nexo for jumping the embargo on this: it\u2019s already out on a number of sites.\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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