A networking idea for FIRST teams through GMAIL

[rufu5]

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 )

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

[RbtGal1351]

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]

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

* 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 *

[ClintDog]

Good idea!!!!!!!!!!!

[scott]

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

[lindsayq]

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!

[wilshire]

great idea Rufus.

[JohnBoucher]

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

[Ryan M.]

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.

[Conor Ryan]

Originally Posted by scott

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

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!

[Beth Sweet]

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

[dmurdz]

I think that this network is a great idea!

Team 1027 has joined in on the action,

1027.FIRST@gmail.com

[Kyle Love]

Team 45 is in.

45.FIRST@gmail.com

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Beth Sweet

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

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.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by rufu5

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

Great idea!