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Online Calendar Makes Planning a Visit to the WRA a Breeze
by Robert Uhrina
Want the latest scoop on upcoming WRA events - from educational
opportunities to REALTORŪ conferences to special events? Then check
out our online monthly calendar. It's the quickest and easiest way for
you to schedule which activities you want to participate in at the
WRA. You can view an entire month at a glance and quickly compare your
schedule to ours. Do you have time available in September to take a CE
class? Just open up the September calendar to see when and where it is
being offered. Then you can click on the course name to find out more
detailed information and to register. The online calendar includes
activities from now through 2004 and is continuously updated as new
courses and events are launched.
"We are pleased to offer the online calendar and have received a lot
of great feedback from members," said Cindy Rebholz, Web Developer for
the Wisconsin REALTORSŪ Association. "The online calendar also lists
holidays and other important dates so members can plan accordingly
throughout the year."
To view the online calendar, visit www.wra.org and click WRA Calendar
(just below the Home tab). Here you can view an entire month at a
glance and even obtain detailed information about a particular course
or event. Be sure to check out our monthly calendar on your next visit
to the WRA Web site and see all that we have to offer.
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Checking E-mail From Multiple Locations
by Stephen Canale, CRB, CRS, GRI, RAM
One of the most common frustrations among professionals who rely
heavily on e-mail is the inability to easily check e-mail from
multiple locations. Usually the problem is stated along the lines of:
"I can't seem to download e-mail from my home office," although
sometimes the situation is reversed. As irritating as this situation
can be, it's usually quite easy to overcome, once you understand a few
basic e-mail conventions.
The first thing you need to realize is that the default
installation for most e-mail software clients includes a setting that
directs the program to remove messages from your email server after
they are retrieved. This makes perfect sense for anyone using just one
computer to send and receive e-mail. However, using this default
setting also means that once you have downloaded your e-mail to one
system, it is no longer available on your e-mail server for
downloading to any other computers. For the user who wishes to work
with e-mail on more than one computer, it is this default "delete from
server" that setting creates the problem.
The solution, naturally, is to modify your e-mail software's
settings on each system so that they will leave your messages on the
server, even after they have been downloaded. The result of making
this change is that your messages can then be downloaded to any of
your machines, and that they will remain available for downloading to
your other computers as well. However, leaving e-mail on your server
can create its own problems as eventually these messages will consume
however much space your e-mail provider allows for email storage.
After this happens, incoming messages will begin to bounce back to the
sender with an "e-mail account over quota" error message.
Fortunately, better e-mail programs will allow for more advanced
settings, such as the ability to automatically delete messages from
the server after a user-specified period of time, or when messages are
emptied from your Trash-box. Configuring these preferences will enable
you make your messages available to more than one computer, but
without overwhelming your server with old messages in the process.
For instance, configuring your e-mail software to delete e-mail
after five days would allow you to retrieve any e-mail received within
the last five days from any number of your systems. Of course, this
means that if you regularly work on two computers, you will end up
downloading almost all of your e-mail twice. Because of this, the
"delete when emptied from trash" option may be your best choice. Using
this setting, messages that you both delete, and then empty from your
Trash-box, will be removed from your server and need not be downloaded
again from your other systems.
It's important to note that each e-mail program has different menu
options, but a quick review of your help menu will tell you what
options are available within your software, as well as the appropriate
steps necessary to make these changes.
One final note point to remember is that you will need to make
these modifications on all of your computers, though they do not need
to be running the same e-mail software.
Register for "Canale Calc - Financial Software for the Palm" or for
"Canale's Tips & Tricks" at
www.canale.com
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