Untangling the Web II: Email for Everyone
In part one of this series, I discussed with you what RSS Feeds are, and how they can benefit you. Today, I’m going to discuss the mainstay of communication in the digital age; Email. In my opinion, email is the single most important technological advance in decades. It has changed the way we do business. It has made staying in touch with friends easier. It’s affected almost every facet of our lives, to some degree or another. Yet it’s something we take, in large part, for granted. Changing to a world with email wasn’t easy, but going back to a world without email at this point would be extremely difficult. Still, as wonderful as it is, email creates almost as many problems at it solves. Spam swamps our in-boxes. Messages we don’t want to delete, but don’t want to lose, clog our in-boxes. Well, for some of us, anyway. This is why choosing the right email client is critical. Deciding whether to use a program on your computer or an application online is alone a tricky task. And once you make that decision, choosing between all of the available options can be pretty daunting. Hopefully, I can make that task a little easier on you. As with every article in this series, I’m going to focus on the application I think is best. In this case, that application is Gmail. Before I walk you through getting your own account, I want to spend some time telling you the reasons why I think Gmail is the right choice for your email needs.**
It’s everywhere you want to be:
Unlike Outlook, or another desktop application, Gmail can be accessed from any computer that has access to the internet. This is one reason why so many businesses have switched to using Gmail. It’s far easier than setting up external access to the company servers for checking your work email off-hours. And don’t worry about the bells and whistles that you get with a desktop client. Even if Gmail doesn’t have something, a calendar for example, there is likely a Google application that will allow you to get the same functionality. One that integrates smoothly with Gmail.
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