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E-mail
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up messy e-mails
Use BCC to
Hide Addresses
How to set
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E-mail Petitions
Has anyone ever forwarded you an
e-mail that has a
petition attached to it? Well,
these are called e-petitions
and they usually deal with
something that may be going
wrong in the world. For
instance, a few of the more
recent
ones have been for lowering gas
prices and for our troops.
So, when you get them, you
probably feel compelled to
sign your name to it and send it
along to all your friends.
That's all good, but do they
really help at all?
The truthful answer is no. The
e-petitions really make no
difference in the end.
Read more.
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What is a BlogPulse?
BlogPulse is a window into the
blogosphere… open it daily to
discover the people, issues,
blogs, posts, commentaries,
tidbits and news that bloggers
are discussing.
Read
more at
blogpulse.com
The political blog website is
here to stay and has become very
popular -- especially among
young people.
In October 2006, Blogpulse
(see above) had identified
35,305,644 blogs. In
May 2010 that number rose to
126,861,574
Many are created by
journalists, academics, and
those working in politics, for
whom sounding off to others is
often an imperative. The vast
majority are probably by people
who are not part of the opinion/
analysis industry and just want
to let off steam and/or be
visible on the net.
Following are some blogs which
are very popular and
informative. Please send us your
favorites which might be of
interest to other Republican
women. If your club or
federation has a blog, please
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Cleaning up Those Messy E-Mails
Before
Forwarding
Download: The Cleaner
- a
really neat program that does
the job in a hurry! This free
utility for cleaning up your
e-mail is extremely popular.
You
know the drill. You get an
e-mail from someone and it's
full of carets (>>>), badly
formatted, and basically a mess.
If an e-mail is worthy of
forwarding, it is our duty to
clean it up and make it look
neat before forwarding. Just
copy and paste that badly
formatted text into this
utility, click the smiley face,
and it will remove all those
carets and attempt to rebuild
the paragraphs (it really does
an amazing job).
Again, this is 100% free and
seems to work under all versions
of Windows. It's about a half
meg in size, so it will download
quickly (dial up modems should
have it in less than 5 minutes).
Go to the following web page and
download this free software.
www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/315
Visit
www.worldstart.com for some
very useful tips on Computers,
Software, Hardware, the Internet
and E-mail. I have subscribed
to their free e-newsletters for
years and find them very
helpful.
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few of our favorites blogs:
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American
Thinker
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Gop.com/blog
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MichelleMalkin.com
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Peach Pundit - GA
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Political Insider - AJC
- most
major newspapers now have
blogs
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Politico.com
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PowerlineBlog.com
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RealClearPolitics.com
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Red State.com
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The Daily Dish
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Townhall.com
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How to set
up a Blog
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Need to
Create a Blog?
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Blog for George Mason RWC
of Virginia - Linda
Bartlett
She had an
article in the
Winter 2007 edition of the
Republican Woman Magazine.
She has two blogs.
Blog for Madison County
Republican Women:
www.mcrwc.com
Our blog supplements our
newsletter, The Blue Ridge
Messenger. Here we post photos,
quotes, commentary, current news
of interest, and a few items
from our newsletter and
meetings. It is usually updated
daily.
Martha Dudley,
Newsletter/Blog Editor
Madison County Republican Women
P.O. Box 314
Madison, VA 22727
(540) 948-6290 |
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Use BCC to
Hide E-mail Addresses
PLEASE clean off all of
those exposed e-mail addresses
before forwarding.
When sending to your e-mail
list, you should use the BCC
(blind carbon copy) feature in
your Outlook Express and other
e-mail software. Learn more
about this
www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/418
Before forwarding those alarming
e-mails which say "Pleeeease
forward" check them out at
www.snopes.com
or other Urban Legend and
Hoax sites.
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4 How
to Group E-mails addresses in
your
Outlook Address Book |
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links to your club or federation
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Facebook the
Missing manual he book which
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Q:
I often send all my e-mails to
the same group of people. Is
there an easier way to do that
rather than typing their
addresses out each time? Any
advice you have would be great.
Thanks!
A:
Excellent
question! All you need to do is
group it! If you usually send
the same e-mails to the same
group of people, you can make it
easier by creating a group for
them. With group e-mailing, you
don't have to search again and
again for each person you want
to send an e-mail to. Maybe
you're in a club and you want to
e-mail every club member. Put
them all in a group and save
yourself some time! Maybe you
send certain e-mails only to
your family members. Make a
group for them and so on!
To do this in Outlook Express,
go to Tools and
open your Address Book.
Now, click on the New
icon and choose New
Group. Make a name for
your particular group and type
it in. Next, click on the
Select Members
button. This will bring up all
the names you have stored in
your address book. You can then
highlight each name you want to
be placed in the group. For
example, you have a card club
and you want Mary, Betty, Judy,
Ann, Nadene and Lisa in that
group. Find their e-mail
addresses and hit the
Select button after
each one. (You can also use
Shift + a mouse click to
highlight them all at the same
time). Either way, click on the
Select button
to get all the names in the
group.
After you're done, their names
will appear under the Members
panel. Click OK
twice and your group's name will
show up in the
left Contacts pane.
When you want to e-mail that
group, open up a new message
like normal, go to Tools,
Select Recipients.
That will bring up a list of all
your contacts and you can scroll
through them to find your
group's name. Highlight the
group name, hit the To:
button and OK.
This will then bring your
group's name into the To:
section of your e-mail. It won't
show everyone's e-mail address
in a line like usual, but all
the addresses are embedded
within the group name.
You can then type out your
e-mail and send it off. All your
group
members will receive it and it
will save you a ton of time.
Give it a try today!
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My Favorite
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Facebook
is a social utility
that connects people
with friends and
others who work,
study and live
around them.
People use
Facebook to
keep up with friends
and to connect
politically. This
has proven very
popular in
Republican groups
Many states have
their own Facebook
and YouTube Group
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Facebook's Permanent
Place in Politics
Posted by Vincent Harris
Wed, 2010-01-27 11:36
What was a perceived advantage online for Democrats across the Country has vanished as Republicans begin to “get” the need to embrace social media as a powerful tool to raise name ID and mobilize supporters. The campaigns of Scott Brown and Bob McDonnell prove that Facebook is the best, and only real necessary tool (although one could argue Twitter) that every campaign should embrace online. Read entire blog. . .
Vincent Harris is the founder of Harris Media, LLC . An online communications firm specializing in political campaigns. He ran day to day web operations for Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s successful campaign.
Vincent has also
conducted several
Technology workshops
at NFRW meetings and
the national
convention in
Orlando in 2009.
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Management and Tips
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Kim Komindo
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What is Twitter?
Get out your cell phones and join the crowd.
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Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–worker to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
This has become VERY popular in political circles especially among young people and many older politicos. Read more. . .
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