Looking at a free web page program webs.com and making some pages on our different areas of communicating electronically that we have looked at. This is reasonably intuitive and offers the addition of buttons backgrounds you tube and other URL inclusions.

Microsoft outlook has a lot going for it:

§  easy to use spam filters to sort out the junk

§  virtual folders,

§  fast message searching,

§  flagging,

§  grouping  RSS feed reader turns up news items as emails automatically.

§  Social networking, does deliver another kind of news in often helpful a manner. Once set up to work with the networks you're using.

§  Outlook 2010 goes to great lengths protecting your privacy and security. Outlook supports S/MIME message encryption, lets you display all mail in super-secure plain text and even sports a custom, more secure (albeit a tad clumsy), HTML message viewer.

§  Email editing works well with all the comfort you know from Word.

§  Comes with built in calendar, tasks and a comprehensive contacts list

 

Some of the problems are:

§  It's a pity you can't train the junk mail filters  

§  Outlook also offers no way to apply categories to messages in IMAP accounts

§  Outlook is probably as well known as a target for viruses as it as a personal assistant.

§  Flexible message templates are not included.

§  Tasks only come with date and not finish time thus limiting their usefulness

Had a look at time management today. this included 168 hr week in the desk
We also looked at a time management quadrant looking at important, unimportant, urgent and non-urgent tasks for our week. not sure what to think of this. I found it hard to classify tasks. Here is my quadrant.

Time Management Quadrant

	Urgent	Non-urgent
Important	Classes Study	Social relationships Exercise Church Meals Sleep Personal care Housework Chill out Family and friend commitments
Non Important	Emails Phone calls Appointments	Chill out TV

 

Great week. Had a look at Survey Monkey. Brilliant! This is so easy to use and extremely quick method of getting peoples opinions about any topic you like. Did phone answering as well. Something you think you are good at till you try to write down lots of info when a customer is speaking very fast. One needs to learn the art of interrupting politely and repeating back to the customer.

Catch Up
Finally I feel like I have caught up in most of my subjects. This really relieves the feeling of stress. Next week we are even going to look at stress.

Hey today was flat out, I didn't know if I was coming or going. We made a KPI checklist, which i will find very useful with my memory. We also looked at the dangers of social networking. It's incredible how fast things can get out there. I don't believe the kids realise the implications that all the things they post can have on them in the future. It seems like a good idea to keep your contacts in groups.

Week three already.
Started using one note today. Great tool as we could share the file between all the class members allowing everyone to read and update the same notes. We also researched the legal side of SPAM which was very interesting seeing as the amount of spam seems to be getting worse and we do not often here of people being convicted of the crime.

Hi again just posting an email etiquette list we did in class.

Email Etiquette

Write a meaningful subject line. Helps receiver to find later Keep the message short and concise. Reader more likely to read it properly Avoid too many attachments. The email client might reject them and it looks messy Identify yourself clearly with a signature block. Be polite. You don’t know who will read this Proofread. You cannot get it back Be aware of privacy, i.e. there is none. Distinguish between formal and informal situations. Respond Promptly. Show Respect and Restraint. Sleep on things before you reply

Week 2 and I am still here.
Looked at Email etiquette today. It's amazing how the info can easily get out there. There really is no privacy in an email. Looked at goggle calendar and entered our class times and assessment due dates. very useful. These milestones make sure I am keeping up with my work and not getting behind the eight ball.The advantage of on-line calendar to hard copy is the fact that it is easy to change, can give you an alert, can be accessed from any where you can access a computer or mobile phone. Also if you change an event on one device it is available on the other.This greatly helps with time management as all your to do's come up chronologically in one place on your due date table.

Reflections on Lesson One

Class was good today. I learnt some new stuff including quick group send to. I found a new item circles. I am not sure what to make of those.

Also found out about signatures which I had used in other email clients. I sent a photo for the first time from my mobile via Gmail which seemed fairly easy.

I find Gmail to be fairly unintuitive program that seems to change a lot because it is online.

This first week of TAFE has been a little stressful considering all the assessments that are needed and the speed of my typing. It was good to get started on MYOB. This seems like it will be an interesting subject.

Spelling may also let me down as this has never been my forte.

The most interesting thing we did was to see the variety found when we all created menu’s for a restaurant.