Once you are comfortable with basic listservs, a more advanced but still relatively easy way to automate some grant research tasks is by utilizing Google alerts. Instead of constantly going back and forth to Google to see if grant cycles have opened or if awards have been announced, a grant researcher can set up a Google Alert for a set of keywords that notifies you when a piece of news you are tracking makes its way onto the web. At google.com/alerts, users can set up an alert for almost anything that they want to keep tabs on. If, for instance, you are waiting for the awards to be announced from the National Science Foundation, you can create an alert for the “National Science Foundation award” and have it emailed to you as soon as something is posted or as a daily digest. Users can get even more technical and create Boolean phrases that return results that fit even more specific criteria, like “National Science Foundation” AND “cybersecurity” OR “artificial intelligence.” Only results that include both the NSF and cybersecurity or artificial intelligence will be emailed to the user. You can even do site-specific updates by putting in the alert, “site:” and then the website you want to track. Whatever you choose to track, however, be sure to be as specific as possible so that you are only alerted to the most pertinent information. Your overall goal is to filter out as much noise as possible so that you are attuned to the opportunities that are most applicable to your organization’s needs.