A few weeks back I wrote about Google offering hosted Gmail to organizations for use as their mail platform. I went ahead and signed up and last week got an email indicating that we could take part. With some help from my service provider, Clarity-Innovations, I have set up mail going to lewiselementary.org to utilize Gmail. So far I just have a few accounts set up, but after spring break I plan to offer it to any staff that would like to take advantage of it.

The control panel for administration is very easy to navigate. The interface also takes advantage of their new Google Talk feature. As with regular Gmail, their are targeted adds. Like I said before, it would be nice if instead of adds, there were links to education related resources based on the content of a mail message...

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