Manage Multiple Email Accounts In Gmail

With a little set-up effort, you can manage all your email accounts in one Gmail interface. Once upon a time I couldn’t imagine needing more than one email address. Now I use several for different purposes. Most of my accounts are through Gmail, and anytime I need a new email address, such as for a project or client, I create another one there. But I also have two accounts outside Gmail; one is on a client’s corporate server, and another is an old Compuserve account to which people still occasionally send mail. This assortment of emails would be impossible to manage if I had to use a different interface and log-in for each. Instead, I manage them all easily through one Gmail interface. How do I do that? In short, I have forwarded all my email accounts to one Gmail address, created filters and labels for each, color-coded the labels, and tweaked some settings so that every account works seamlessly from one interface. The process involves several log-ins and –outs... [Read more]

A few days ago I got an email from an outdoor writer/photographer who said he has closed his Facebook account. He had created the account in the expectation of its being good for business. Instead, it had been a distraction and a nuisance, as friends played games, conducted polls, and otherwise filled his page with non-work-related apps. Not only was... [Read more]

I was lucky in my draw of genes. As is typical of her family, my mother has only a few grey hairs at an age when most people have more salt than pepper.  She has fewer wrinkles than most of my friends from high school, and it certainly wasn’t from living a cushy life. So if being in the shooting industry for 25 years and owning a PR... [Read more]

Hal Swiggett came into my life in 1988, within weeks after Outdoor Media Resources came into being.  Hal died Monday, March 2, 2009, at the age of 87. As an outdoor writer and editor who specialized in handguns, Hal was my first and best public relations success story.  Immediately before we met, he had written unkind words about not only the... [Read more]

  When the EPIC Outdoor Game Fair gets underway at the Foxhall Resort and Sporting Club near Atlanta, Georgia, on September 23, one national outdoor television show will be well represented. Todd Cast and Marty Fischer, hosts of the popular TNT Outdoor Explosion television series, seen all 52 weeks of the year on the Pursuit Channel, will play... [Read more]

Eukanuba will be the title sponsor for the canine activities and bring some of their most well-known sporting dog exhibitions during SCI Foundation and Quail Unlimited’s EPIC Outdoor Game Fair this September. The Canine Village, being organized by industry insider Dan O’Connor, will feature a Super Retriever Series trial, Big Air Competition,... [Read more]

The Shooting Village at Safari Club International Foundation and Quail Unlimited’s EPIC Outdoor Game Fair will offer unique and broad hands-on opportunities for Game Fair participants. Headlined by Shooting Sportsman Magazine, Beretta, Laser Shot and John Rigby & Co, the shooting sports program will fulfill every aspect of the event’s... [Read more]

In an effort to actively engage families in the great outdoors, leaders of Safari Club International Foundation (SCIF) and Quail Unlimited (QU) announced that they will be hosting the first annual EPIC Outdoor Game Fair. The event will be held September 23-25, 2011 in Douglasville, Georgia at the Foxhall Resort and Sporting Club. Modeled after European... [Read more]

A coalition of the nation’s largest hunting and conservation organizations welcomed a provision championed by Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus (CSC) member Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho and CSC Senate Co-Chair, Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, to remove the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) as part of the FY 2011 budget agreement... [Read more]