gMail Labs – and “Canned Responses”

Sending the Same Message with Small Changes

When you want to send messages that are almost exactly the same to many people, but you want to make small changes, you could copy & paste and alter and send to individuals. Or you could use the Google Labs feature, Canned Responses.

Google Labs is found by clicking the icon of [...]

More gMail: Sending to Many People

Sometimes we need to send a message to many people, and gmail makes that easy. Here are two situations:

Sending the same message to a group of people and respecting their privacy; and
Sending the same message with some small changes for each person in a group of people.

Sending the Same Message to a Group of People and [...]

Google Docs Rock!

Before I talk about Google Docs, I want to be clear that I get nothing in return from Google; I am simply sharing the possibilities that Google provides, to try and be a web mentor. I find Google Docs incredibly useful. The video below explains how Google docs can be a useful web tool.

How We Research and Draft Now

The web has radically changed how we research and plan and draft our writing. It’s happened over 20 years so we haven’t always noticed just how immense the change has been. From a time when libraries and pads of rough yellow newsprint paper were what was needed to start writing till now, where Google, a computer [...]

Google's Free Calendar

Google Calendar is a very handy free tool, and very easy to set up and use. As I mentioned in my previous post, it’s easy to find information on how to use web tools. Here is a link on setting up your own Google Calendar:

http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/about.html

Once you get used to it, you’ll find [...]