Material Covered: Google's approach to email; setting up a Gmail account; and getting started with Gmail.
What I learned: I set up a Gmail account and I was able to create and organize my contact list, add contacts to my chat list, create labels, and chat with those in my contact list. I have an E-mail account on my home computer and I am very comfortable using it for sending & receiving messages. My home E-mail account does not have the chat feature. As I often hear about "Chats" from my nieces it was good to know how it works.
Best Features: I have not figured out how I can access my home E-mail except at home. For me the best feature of the Gmail account is that you can access your E-mail from any computer.
Problems/Limitations: The only problem for using Google Gmail is that it is a Google product and Google wants to be the "primary depository of all things digital about you".
What I would still like to learn: I would like to learn how to access my home E-mail from other computers. This would come in handy when travelling.
Susan ... we can chat about this in more detail ... but often home e-mails are in sympatico or Microsoft Outlook ... and you can usually sign in using hotmail ... I have done this when I had sympatico/bell as my internet provider and used Outlook to retrieve my messages. You don't need a hotmail account, you log in with the email address you use normally ...
ReplyDeleteCome and see me and we can check it out together!!