i am trying to send a notification thru Automated Actions, is there a simple way to do this?

I tried to create a message Object but this does not work. http://i.imgur.com/yZDpdzM.png (image description)

Email notifications work as expected but i can't seem to find a way to make system notifications work.

It's probably best to do this thru Python Code? Is there an example on how to do this?