Chapter 4: Personal Information Management and Communication

This chapter taught me how to set up a Windows Live Mail account in order to send and receive e-mails to other contacts that I have added. Using this program has allowed me to keep all of my contacts in one orderly place, making it much easier to send e-mails or attachments to one or a group of people with ease. Another neat feature of this program was allowing me to subscribe to newsgroups and view them for my own pleasure. I may go out and subscribe to some gaming newsgroups that I'm interested in, such as the one located at http://www.fastusenet.org/blog/usenet-video-games.html for discussions on specific games. The Windows Live Mail can also be used to IM (Instant Message) others on my contact list, making it easier to talk immediately rather than taking more time to write out e-mails back and forth to each other. Lastly, this chapter has helped me view RSS feeds located on different websites with articles within them. Knowing how to subscribe to these allows for easy access to pick up where you left off and find the specific thread I am interested in.