I’ve decided to start a video series entitled “Becoming an Organized and Productive Blogger”.
The thought came to me this week as I was spinning my wheels one day trying to get everything done. I took a step back and analyzed why I was feeling stressed and unproductive. I found that I felt that way because at that moment, I wasn’t approaching various areas of my business in an organized way. I’m an extremely organized person by nature, but we all unravel sometimes. It happened to me because I was out of town for a few weeks and wasn’t successfully adhering to my normal schedule.
So I decided to create a few videos describing ways that we, as bloggers, can get organized in order to increase our productivity.
This is the first video in the series. It’s all about email tools you can use to get organized and save time, as well as strategies you should implement in the way that you deal with email. I’ll tell you right now that it’s very Gmail-centric. That’s where my knowledge lies, and it’s what I think you should be using anyways.
The next video will be focused on Google Calendar, and that’ll be out next week.
*Note: If you have trouble seeing the smaller print, hit the button in the bottom right corner to make the video fullscreen.*
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I agree with you, just started using gmail, imported my 3 e-mail accounts. but have some difficulties, #1 is that google email comes in only an hour or later than the my regular e-mail account. as well how do you organize e-mails by date, or from in gmail? and the biggest thing that i want to know, How do we change the subject in a reply? with out getting into a new conversation in gmail.
. What program r u using for this video the the text nicely done.
Lisa, maybe you can do a post why firefox vs safari (im using mac) plugins, and how we install them in gmail
One more question if i may
Lisa thanks for sharing how to become more organized, good work.
@Chaim -Let me see if I can quickly answer some of your questions.
#1. You’re right, your imported email addresses will come in later. But, Google continues to learn, based on how many emails you get, how often to check your email. Whereas one of my email accounts used to be checked every 55 minutes, it’s now being checked every 15 minutes or so. Also, you can always manually check an email account by going into Settings –> Accounts and Import –> Click on “Check Mail Now” next to the email address.
#2. Emails are already organized by date. Newest to oldest. When a new message is added to a “conversation”, it’s (the entire conversation) brought to the top of your inbox.
#3. I don’t think you can change the subject in a reply without getting a new conversation started. But, all the previous messages would be shown in your new reply.
#4. I created a PowerPoint presentation, then used Camtasia to create the screenshot video.
Thanks for the comment!
Interesting idea for a blog post would be, a list of the experts you are learning from (as you mentioned in your video as one of your labels in Gmail) and what you have learned from these experts. Lisa, your links and profiles on all the social media sites are well done. You are definitely an expert I’m going to learn from. and thanks for the quick actually “super quick” response.