I spent this weekend learning my buns off at Jay Shafer's Tumbleweed Tiny House workshop, which was going down at Emily Carr. I also frantically tried to keep up with my emails from this project, while trying to remember that a day job is meant to happen during the week..
Anyways, I've been up since 8 responding to emails, redesigning the UBC farm volunteer cards and making plans to meet with people from various organizations who could benefit from my attention. I'm going to try to balance this with trips out to gardens throughout the month, but it looks like my focus may be shifting.
I think there are 2 things which will be my main focus:
-showing community gardens/gardeners and agriculture organizations how to generate a web presence for themselves
-putting together promotional materials (logos, websites etc) that can be used by those organizations
-organizing a social event for the end of the month, to help people meet each-other
That's definitely not just 2 things... :)
ReplyDeletePerhaps 3 is your very exuberant version of 2?
A social event sounds very interesting, I'm sad I won't be around for it.
Re: emails
ReplyDeleteAt sprouts we have email accounts for each role, which follows the role and changes hands when new people fill the roles. Example: sprouts.bulkbuying@gmail
This helps facilitate transitions when new people move into ongoing roles, and keeps important information in an account separate from personal email accounts.
It is possible to set up gmail accounts to automatically forward to other accounts, so I can have my bulkbuying account forward to my personal account, and then I can reply via either account from my personal one.
Do you have an email address for the RachelGrows project? Or are you just using your personal email account? (I can't see any contact info anywhere on the blog here)
Whether or not this is appropriate to RachelGrows, it might be something worth considering for community gardens and other organisations.
Think the social event may end up being scheduled for august, so ian of the grandview woodlands group can help organize-get out different people and whatnot.
ReplyDeleteI like your point about email setups- I've been thinking about that myself lately.
My main issue is that the forwarding system isn't really ideal, because it doesn't sort the messages when I sign into my main account. Having separate accounts is also not ideal, because then I need to sign into both.
What I need is a system like with blogger- multiple emails on one account. Emails arrive to the appropriate folders, but I only need to sign in once.
Can we make that?
It is possible to set up gmail to fetch mail from another account.
ReplyDelete1) go to your alternate account, go to setting, and then the forwarding and pop/imap tab. Enable pop. I leave a copy of the email on the given account, this allows the continuity we've been talking about. save and sign out.
2) go to the account that you want to have receive all messages and go Settings -> Accounts, and 'add a mail account you own' under the 'get mail from other accounts' section. Put in the email address of the other account, and then put in the other particulars.
(Note: the option to 'leave a copy on the server' isn't actually important, you change this setting in the alternate account)
(Also, the option to automatically label any email obtained in this manner doesn't seem to work for me. I just disabled it and created a filter in my standard gmail account that will label anything addressed to my alternative account.)
3) if you want, go to Settings -> Account and set things up so that you can send email as though you were sending from your alternative account. This doesn't actually send it from the other account, as nothing shows up in the alternate account's sent messages... which is unfortunate, but it looks like it was sent from there, and any replies will go back to the other account.
This setup means that:
A copy of email sent to your alternate account automatically ends up in your standard account. A copy will stay in your alternate account as well. Anything from the alternate account ends up with a label that says as much. You can chose to send email as either account from one account. Emails sent as though from the other account aren't actually, and no copy of them ends up in the alternate account (unless someone includes it in a reply).