It came back to life when I was able to reopen my Google account. When I woke up this morning, my email and my calendar had both disappeared and I was told my Google account had been disabled. That is a very worrying thing.
I think I know why this was done. I'd been emailing schools. And, as is my wont, to try and drum up business, I email every school I can find in the address book. That means I'm emailing about 500 schools at a time. I realise this is probably something you're not supposed to do It's spam, or as we used to call it cold-calling. It is, however, the way that schools get to hear of me, and frankly I can't think of a better way. But it is, I think, the Google policy that they say I've violated. I can't be sure cos I haven't asked them. This time. When I've asked in the past, the answer I've got has been vague (probably because it's a machine answering the questions, and indeed doing the disabling of my account), but I've come away with the notion that it's the mass emailings that leads to the disabling.
So, all I'm saying is, if you're one of the schools who got my emails, do please get back in touch and book me. And any schools who've not heard from me, I'm available for bookings.
I'm also saying that if you've got a blog on Blogger, or videos on Youtube, or a Google calendar that you rely on for everything, and Gmail that you need likewise, don't rely on them so heavily, and maybe find some alternative. And back everything up. Cos they're all owned by the same person, and if they don't like what you're doing, they can close you down and you lose everything.
Talking of changing the subject, Jimmy Kimmel's show just got cancelled for criticising Trump, and Trump just declared Anti-Fascism a terrorist organisation. I'm sure the bosses of Google are nothing like him though. Are they?
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Have you considered using something like MailChimp, which handles bulk-emailings. They have a free tier that allows for you to send out up to 1000 emails per month – that's the number of recipients times the number of email "editions" – so, for your 500 schools, you can send out up to two mailings per month.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ken, but I was penalised for sending 500 emails a day. I'd reach MailChimp's limit in two days, which wouldn't really help. But thanks.
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