A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

OK, my major e-mail address is now my gmail address. Now I was sitting back and thinking: "Man, this gmail thing is sweet, 2gbs of storage, any @gmail.com that you want ..." (and he did speak at nationals :D )

And then it hit me!

Have you ever been sitting back and said: "Man I want to get in touch with team xxxx, but I just don't know what e-mail to use, which person I need to talk to, and their website is down or doesn't have a contact list!"

Well I have a solution!

Say you want to get in contact with the FIRST team 447 (my team, lol)

447.FIRST@gmail.com

every team, simply takes 5 minutes and makes a (team number)(period)FIRST@gmail.com

and it goes on for FLL and VEX too xxxx.FLL@gmail.com xxxx.VEX@gmail.com

team leaders can use the AMAZING gmail notifier

http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-help...x?promo=gdl-en

(I had already made 447.FIRST, thats why i said that and not 447.FRC)

IF ANYONE WANTS AN INVITE, SO THEY CAN MAKE THEIR TEAM A GMAIL ACCOUNT, just post here (to move this up, so more people can see it) and send me an e-mail at 447.FIRST@gmail.com

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

That's a really cool idea!

And you easily have it forward to the leader's email address too

~Stephanie
Team 1351

ps- i <3 google and gmail rocks! smschmit@gmail.com & any other ones i feel like making with my 90 invites. need one?

[edit] THAT WAS MY 100TH POST!!! [/edit]

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

yeah I guess I'll help with the invite thing

xiagox@gmail.com

by the way

already got

1597.FIRST@gmail.com

and

039.VEX@gmail.com

for my team :D

* While making the account for my vex team I noticed the user name
(i.e. 39.vex@gmail.com) cant be less than 6 characters long (they might not count the period (.) )

So I made it
039.vex@gmail.com

and I think (for simplicity) all VEX or FLL teams that have less than 3 digits should follow the same format, so anyone can remember how to contact you ;) *

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

Good idea!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

My god. . . .. RUFUS!! This brilliant!!. . . I've had GMail for about. . . . . 3 days and I refuse to use anything else!!

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

I'll help out with the GMail invites, as well. Each account only has 50 invites, so if you or your team would like an invitation to create a GMail account, e-mail me at: lindsay.quyle@gmail.com

Great idea, Rufus! :D

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

great idea Rufus.

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

Excellent Idea. Gmail is a great tool.

We also use a gmail account for a workspace for the mentors on our team. We have discussions by reading and replying to the threaded emails. We save and share documents this way also. Good Stuff :cool:

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

Interesting idea.

If you happen to be the team leader, but already have Gmail, don't forget you can have emails forwarded!

See my sig if you need an invite.

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

Welcome to the party

yay 1403.first is created (PM if you want to use it)! this is an easy way to get a contact email for all the teams. Yay!

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

Sounds like a good idea. We already have a gmail account for our team though, so you may want to mark down on the list that we are team1504@gmail.com

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I think that this network is a great idea!

Team 1027 has joined in on the action,

1027.FIRST@gmail.com

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Team 45 is in.

45.FIRST@gmail.com

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

The nice thing about everyone having the same format is there doesn't need to be a list. If I want to contact team 383, I automatically know its 383.first@gmail.com.

Having a different e-mail address (even if it's still gmail) defeats the purpose.

Like Rufus said, if you want to use a seperate e-mail address, set up 1504.first@gmail.com and set it to forward to whatever address you want.

Re: A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL
 

Great idea!