Want to e-mail me? You've got a few options.

We've been discussing e-mail marketing campaigns in class and in order to blog along those lines, we have been challenged to think about the different e-mail accounts we each have and what we use them for.

There's my Gmail account that I snatched up when you still needed an "invite" to sign up. This is the address I use for both personal and professional e-mails and has become my primary account over the last several years. It's the address my family and friends use. It's where my daily publishing news and New York Times arrive. It's the account attached to bills and the one I used to send out resumes before I decided I'd rather go straight to graduate school than work for a few years. It's kind of my multi-purpose address, and it works well because Gmail has an excellent spam filter that I just skim once or twice a week to make sure nothing important was flagged. While I know lots of people with many e-mail addresses for different purposes, I'm all about the convenience of keeping it all in one spot.

I also have a Yahoo! account that I've had since middle school. I used to check this frequently, even after it was no longer my primary e-mail, but it has become the spam account and now gets checked and cleared out once a month or so. This account used to be associated with several online networks I'm still active on, but I just recently switched all of those to a different account. I think I'm subconsciously preparing to stop checking my Yahoo! address and will just let it expire. Sorry, Yahoo! I just haven't been a fan of your newest redesign.

There's also my Portland State University Webmail address. If you have not had the pleasure of using PSU's Webmail system, consider yourself lucky. It is worthless and archaic, yet I have to use it because I do get some important e-mails there, especially because it's where I'm granted access to the account I need to do my job as Marketing Co-Manager for Ooligan.
PSU IT...if you come across this, please give us an upgrade. Please.

I also have my newest e-mail, the Gmail account I created specifically for this class. So far it's only purpose is to use Blogger and other Google business tools that we've discussed in class.

I did have to really think about this, probably because I have several institutions I'm not affiliated with anymore and thanks to mail forwarding, I'm just not sure which are active and which aren't. Mail forwarding made it so that I haven't had to log into them in a very long time; it all goes to one place...What would I do without my trusty, all-purpose Gmail account?!