Group Email Primer Tutorial

Group Email Primer Tutorial

Group Email Primer Tutorial

The recent Contacts Primer Tutorial is like a prerequisite to today’s Group Email tutorial. Today’s tutorial is specifically using the Gmail website email environment (ie. webmail), which we’ll be comparing and contrasting to some nutting out a student and I did for Group Emailing using the Telstra Webmail service. Ahead of the blurb below you might want to see our PDF slideshow on this subject, today.

Before getting into some procedural nuts and bolts regarding Group Emails via Gmail (webmail) let’s think about some reasons and uses for Group Email methods …

  • organizing the personnel for a meeting
  • passing on information to groups or classes
  • teachers passing out reference material to a class
  • organizing parties or get togethers
  • broadcasting details of a public meeting
  • advertising a product
  • club announcements
  • payroll or other business changes to procedure
  • sharing attachment photos and/or news with friends via email

In other words, lots of applicability here. So much so, you may have to create too many groups to cover the nuances. But bear in mind, you send an email optionally selecting these Groups, and all this amounts to is plucking out that group’s email addresses and expanding them in the “To:” or “Cc:” or “Bcc:” area of interest. Nothing stops you, the emailer, subtracting or adding individual email addresses of choice to refine a nuance of a particular email communication requirement.

So, let’s below, summarize the Gmail website way to Group Emailing, with some Telstra Webmail compare/contrasting comments …

  • login to Gmail website for Webmail (versus desktop client application type of email access) … likewise regarding Telstra Webmail …
  • the Gmail menu at the left has a ‘Contacts’ link advising to … Telstra Webmail likewise …
  • top right “nine dots in a square” icon ‘Contacts’ (sub) icon … gets you to …
  • Gmail Contacts webpage … this is the prerequisite for Group Emails here … and on other email products such as Telstra Webmail … Group Emailing uses Contacts to form the Groups so you should fill in Contacts first … on Gmail using the “+” icon at bottom right to add a new Contact … so steps below assume your Contacts are up to date …
  • still on Google Contact webpage click Create Label menu at left …
  • type in the new Label (ie. Group) for Emails and click OK button … with Telstra Webmail this step is off a “V” menu near the top that says “Add Group” (and then you enter your new Group and name it) … the new Label or Group will show in a Menu at the left …
  • still on Google Contact webpage click Contact checkboxes to shape to add to that Label or Group of interest, and click left pointing “Ticket” icon of menu at top right to select the “Manage Labels” submenu to pick the Label or Group of interest … in Telstra Webmail you drag Contacts and drop them onto the Group or Label (folder) icon at the left … that completes the Group or Label setup … then to use this Group or Label emailing …
  • back at Gmail (or Telstra Webmail) choose to Compose a new email …
  • either at the “To:” or “Cc:” or “Bcc:” links or by typing away a Group or Label can be selected … and what happens is …
  • the email addresses of that Group or Label get expanded as individual email addresses the emailer can accept or delete or add to as the recipients of their email

  • Previous relevant Contacts Primer Tutorial is shown below.

    Contacts Primer Tutorial

    Contacts Primer Tutorial

    The contacts app on any computer device is a great repository of information. As a huge fan of email we find contacts invaluable to link email addresses to mobile phone numbers in order to send messages, via that device’s messaging app, in the case of emergency messages. We tend to work that way, messaging for emergencies, email for the rest, the reason being, in an emergency the pared down nature and short messaging beats email for speed of communication and direct notification at the other end.

    Of course it is that way both with email and messaging to only have to remember a name. Hopefully I don’t have to explain this talent the contacts app has?!

    We show some of this on an iOS iPhone device with a stream of consciousness PDF sideshow.

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