Creating an E-mail Account

1. Creating an E-mail Account Geneva Public Library February 15th, 2011

2. A Few Questions… What is e-mail? How many of you have had e-mail accounts before?

3. Popular E-mail Providers • These email accounts are free to have and are widely used • They vary somewhat in functions yet the basics are similar "Big 3" • Hotmail- Microsoft's E-Mail Service • Yahoo Mail • GMail- (Google E-Mail) There are others: AOL Mail, Excite are examples • Your employer may provide you a work e-mail account

4. What do your e-mail accounts provide you • Ability to write/receive e-mails • Storage space to save e-mails • Instant Messaging  • Talk to your friends that are also currently logged in to their accounts • Organization Tools • Calendar, Planner, Notifications, Etc.

5. This is an example of a calendar from Hotmail…

6. Setting Up Your Own Account What you Need to Do: • Decide Your Provider • Fill Out The Required Registration Information • Confirm Your Account (Not necessary with all providers) • Start Creating and Receiving! Now we will take you step by step through the  process  of setting up a GMail account...

7. Notice the website URL Gmail Home Page Stay Signed In Function To Begin the Account Setup process click on the ‘Create an Account’ Box

8. Creating Your Account 1.First Name 3. Login Name 2. Last name 4. Password 5. Password Verify 6. Security Question

9. Creating Your Account cont. 7. Answer to Security Question 8. Recovery E-Mail 9. Location, Birthday 10. Word Verification

10. Creating Your Account Cont. 11. Terms of Service 12. Accept and Create

11. Your New Account 13. Click here to get started. Labels not Folders

12. Your Inbox Who is Logged In. Compose E-mail Capacity

13. Writing an E-Mail To: Who are you writing to? Subject: What’s the email about? Body of the letter

14. Save Now Send Writing an Email cont. Discard Courtesy Copy Auto Draft Blind Courtesy Copy Draft Spell Checker Attaching a File

15. Attaching a File 1.Searching for your attachment 2. Select Your File, Then Click Here

16. Ready to Send Always double check your addresses! My Attached File Time to Send

17. Looking at a received e-mail When it was sent Who The Message Is From Reply Box

18. My Contacts Click Here to Add Contacts

19. Contacts Cont. Click Here to Add Contact Default Contact Groups Click Here to Create New Group

20. Adding Contacts Gmail will save for you Your new contact was added here. Click to Manage. Add These Fields Create Descriptive Notes About Contact

21. Managing Contacts Let’s put our co-worker Jon into groups Select all that apply to Jon Then Apply Create New group here

22. Labels Another Way to Manage Labels Standard Labels That Google Provides Create a New Label, manage existing ones

23. Managing Labels Show or Hide Create New, Labels like ‘Basketball’

24. A Few More Things to Know Settings and Help Search Your Mail, Search The Web Report Spam

25. Topics for Another Time • Using Chat • Other Google Features (Calendar, Documents, Etc.)

26. You are on your way! We really appreciate you coming to our class and we look forward to seeing you at another one in the future!