Get organised using the Web
8. Organise your email
You don’t want to clog your business account with personal messages or run the risk of important family messages getting lost in a deluge of low-priority ones. Why don’t you get a second (or third) free Web-based email account to organise your incoming communications? I subscribe to a lot of free electronic newsletters (such as those offered by iVillage) and enjoy reading them after my day’s work is done, so I have a separate email account for newsletters. All these free email accounts are capable of reading HTML mail, and many of today’s most interesting newsletters are available in HTML format. Here are a few places you can pick up a free Web-based email account: TescoNet, Hotmail and Yahoo.
9. Get customised news
Cut through the clutter by getting specific news delivered right to your electronic doorstep. Whether you need to keep your fingers on the pulse of the Middle East or the latest catwalk sensations, check out guardianunlimited and BBC Online.
Excite News offers a highly customisable news-clipping service. Select which publications and topics to track and, as NewsTracker delivers the articles, you can refine the scope of its search by identifying which articles you liked and which were off track. In addition to customised news clipping, Yahoo! News offers email alerts to let you know when news is happening in your area of interest.
10. Back up important data files In order to figure out how often to back up your important data files, ask yourself how many days of work you're willing to lose. One month? One week? One day?A daily Internet back-up system keeps each of my daily back-ups forever. Yes, there is a fee, but my data is important.
The leader in this field is @Backup.
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Created: 19/02/2004 Updated: 31/03/2004
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