Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Mail Merge with Gmail and Google Spreadsheet

TUTORIAL + TOOLS

A staff member needed to send a personalize email message to multiple students in one go. The individual messages needed to have the same content but the name needed to be personalized. For instance, each student needed to be greeted by their first name while the other parts stays the same. This saves you a lot of time compared to sending individual emails to everyone. Read on to learn how to use Tmail, Google Spreadsheets and an Add-on called Yet Another Mail Merge to send a mail merge.


Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Google Calendar | Appointment Slots

TUTORIAL

This post covers the Google Calendars Appointment Slots feature. This tool helps you set a period of time on your calendar, divided into available time slots for people to reserve. Once reserved the booked slot will appear in your Google calendar. At one point Google took this feature away but it is back just in a different location. The reserving of slots is only available to users with Google accounts.  Read more to learn how to setup your appointment slots.