I am one of the Gmail “beta-users” at Mercy.  Our tech department has already assigned all students and staff Google accounts, but we do not all switch to Gmail until June.  However, I have several personal and administrative reasons to thrill at the switch:

* We each will have ten times the amount of mail storage as we do presently.

* Gmail is free.

*Gmail has terrific spam recognition software.

*It is “smart” in other ways too, like autofilling addresses

*No email has a better search function (After all, this is a Google app).

*As a “cloud” service it suits both desk top and mobile users.

*It will naturally integrate well with our other Google Apps.

*It is fast.

Like anything new, there will be adjustments.  But this is one area where I think the payoffs for changing will be realized very quickly.

— L Baker

Screen Shot of My New MHS Gmail Account