The Bojo Blog

Oh that’s right…you can now use your Bojo on Craigslist.

“What does this mean??”

It means a bunch of things, really. For starters, your Craigslist ad will be far more personalized, professional, specific, and trustworthy. Wouldn’t that make you more likely to respond to it?

Since you can’t link off to external sites from Craigslist, and since you can only upload so many photos to describe your item/ad…your Bojo makes it possible to concentrate your information in a “hub” of sorts. Selling a car? Link off to the Carfax. Renting a room? Link to pictures/floorplans. Posting a job? Link to the company site.

And do it all right from your Bojo.

Craigslist isn’t too picky; all you have to do is paste your Bojo’s HTML in the box when you’re creating your ad, and voila, you’re the classified king/queen. You can grab your Bojo’s HTML code by logging into your Member Center, clicking “Install this Bojo”, and selecting “VREO Mail”. Copy all the code in the box (make sure you get it all!) and paste into your new Craigslist ad.

There’s much more info coming soon…

But for now, if I told you, I’d have to kill you.

Is Wikipedia a verb yet? I think it is, or at least really should be. You know, “Hey Cornelius, Facebook me about that raucous party Milton is throwing,” or, “Chauncey, did you Facebook that girl you like?”

Well…folks, come and Wikipedia us. For we are there. On Wikipedia.

Now that that exciting little bit of business is over, here comes the meat and potatoes. Mmm…starch.

Many of our users don’t have a clue what email program they ought to be using. Some use whatever version of Outlook came with their computer; some use whatever webmail corresponds to their Instant Messenger; some use HorridMail for Windows 95 or something–and for them, life is glib. They’re 14 years behind the technology curve and don’t know what to upgrade to.

*Trumpets sound*

Don’t worry, I’ll save you! I may not wear my underpants on the outside, but as you can imagine I work with a lot of different email programs.

So here are the recommendations:

Webmail:

If you’re often on-the-go and need access to your emails from multiple computers, you definitely need a webmail service. But which one? Gmail. Of the lot, Gmail is the easiest, fastest, and offers the best support. Automatically forwarding all your mail into Gmail is a cinch, and it is fully HTML-compliant–which means we very rarely have support issues with Bojos in Gmail. Can’t necessarily say the same for other webmails that change their HTML rules constantly.

Client Email:

If you pretty much read all emails on one computer, and like the security of downloading messages to your hard drive, client email is the one for you. But which one? Thunderbird. Mozilla’s Thunderbird is easy, fast, and FREE, and since it’s open-source, you get a support network of tech geeks the world over. If you’ve switched to the Firefox browser, you already know that Mozilla does it right. Same with email. And again, Bojos work flawlessly in T-bird.

So why have I done this?

Why risk angering the Microsoft and AOL and Yahoo gods? Well, because as long as you don’t have a serious in-the-blood allegiance to your current under-performing email service, why not switch to the best? We want the best for you. It will almost certainly wind up saving you time, energy, and money.

Huzzah!

Hey–I haven’t heard from many of you in a while. I do love your feedback!