gMail is my favorite mail application,as I have blogged about here previously: http://jnthweb.ca/2010/08/gmail-other-email-addresses/ http://jnthweb.ca/2010/08/why-gmail-labels-not-folders/ There are other reasons in other posts,but here is an excellent succinct list of why and how gmail is useful:http://www.thethinkingstick.com/5-gmail-tips-for-teachers [...] Sometimes it quicker and/or more personal to send recorded audio messages. As a teacher,I’ve sent emails using audio apps on my iphone,but it takes a long time to send and it’s a bit tricky to add email addresses. Today I tried using the free,downloadable audio software,Audacity,and the free richly-featured web [...] I use most of the extensions in the video below. You might find them helpful too. via @LuigiBenetton I send out email to a variety of people,some of whom open and answer messages daily or even hourly and some of who go on the internet a few times a week –or less. Sometimes,I need to know if they got my message,and take further action (like phone them) if they haven’t. But [...] Now that you’re using gmail,do you ever find yourself writing a message,but needing information from a previous message or from your Contacts? It can be annoying to save the current message as a draft,(1) or open a separate copy,(2) just so you can search (3) for what you need. There’s [...] Labels in gMail Most email applications let you set up folders for storing messages you want to save. You have to decide what category your message fits into,if you want to keep it (but not in the Inbox),make sure you have a folder with that name,and store the message there. Then,when [...] Years ago I had a Hotmail address as well as an address based on my service provider and one for the institution I worked for. Three email addresses: one I could open on any wired computer,as long as I remembered the exact address and my password for it (didn’t always happen),another I could [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |  Joan works and plays on the web and is happy to speak to groups or individuals about the web's communication possibilities |
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