An Examination of Gmail: does the “G” stand for “Great” mail?

Anne Orfila

January 5th, 2009
by Anne Orfila

Yes, I am living in the 21st century and I do know that the “G” stands for Google, but I had to add that in the title cause I am about to go on and on about how great Gmail is and how much I loooove (correct pronounciation: luh-uh-uhve) it.  First off, I have to start out by saying I am secretly enamored with Google in and of itself.  I love my own Google homepage and I love my Gmail and I love that I can pick my theme in it, which is currently “Graffiti”.  How dope is that??  Okay, sorry, I’ll step out of the 90s (I find myself inadvertently trying to revise the word dope, meaning cool or great, but that is a whole ‘nother post!).  Back to Google, it’s definitely in my “Top 5″! Top 5 of what, you ask?  Well, not sure, but my 5-year old seems to have a “top 5″ for everything that is his favorite, so that is what I’m saying too! 

I Heart Gmail

I Heart Gmail

Recently, in our web marketing group of wild web women, we started using Gmail as our main email channel, instead of using, well I won’t even mention that sites name, that was hosting all of our stuff.  We are busy and the emails flow in and out, forward and reply, all day (and sheepishly admitting) almost all night too.  Frustrated by receiving double emails, or no emails, or having emails bounce because we were at our storage limit, put us on the path for something better.  I must admit, I was probably the last person to switch over!  Creature of habit, I suppose, or the seven pages of instructions looked too daunting for my assistant to do (just kidding! about the assistant part – that would just be in my dreams – or maybe in 3 years, who knows!).  Having a Gmail account for my personal email already, I found that I was able to filter all my work emails right into that account!  What gets even better is that they come in automatically labelled with whatever I choose (in this case, I call all incoming work emails “work”, creative, huh?).  Then to top it off, I can add additional labels and when I am ready to file away my conversations, I can “archive” them and they go under the labels I created.  And did I mention that storage space seems to be infinite?

 

My utmost faaaaaavorite (correct pronunciation: fay-ay-ayv-vor-it) part about Gmail is how it organizes replies with the specific conversation.  So, for instance, if I email five people about something, and they all email me back, I don’t have five separate line items, AKA five separate emails, in my inbox that pertains to what I just sent out.  I can click on that message and know that I can see responses from everyone that was in that conversation.  Smart, and space-saving, and mind-saving (it prevents me from going craaazy (correct pronounciation: cra-ay-ay-zee) weeding through my inbox for everyone’s replies.  Fabulous!

Wondering if I was the only one out there that felt so strongly about Gmail so I, what else?, googled the phrase “reasons to use gmail”.  What turned up were pages and pages by everyone (and probably even my father, who is now on facebook!) about why they love their Gmail!  I’m not alone in this crush!  But who can tell it better than Google themselves.  Here are Google’s top ten reasons to use Gmail. 

So my friends, what I’m saying is that if you haven’t made the switch to Gmail, there is no better time than now!  You will be amazed at how much better it is than any other email application and maybe, just maybe, you’ll think the “G” stands for “Great” too.  Or better yet, how about “Googlicious“?

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Comments:

  1. Kelly Kohen

    Kelly Kohen
    (January 7th, 2009 at 12:32 am)

    Yup…you were the last one to jump on the bandwagon…but we forgive you! Gmail is the BOMB! I totally agree! The ability to track all conversations easily is awesome and the best is the SEARCH capability…but maybe I’ll save that for another blog post!

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