Before I publish the first guest written article, I want to say something to all my loyal followers who have supported me and the site since day 1 (just under a month ago). I, myself, am not a writer, I’m just your average sales and marketing guy who has a love for all things technology. I only began to write when this site went live and have slowly adapted myself into a role I never thought possible for myself. This being said each one of my writers is given full creative freedom with their posts I encourage them to dig deep and say what’s on their minds as writing isn’t easy nor is keeping up to date with all the breaking stories so they may as well have fun doing it.

This being said, one thing I’m going to start to do in the Guru Corner is showcase a guest written piece of work. Could be from someone notorious or completely unknown. Either way, it allows that writers work to be appreciated by a larger audience and hopefully gain them a few more fans a long the way.

Today the guest writer is: Mitch Brevard who is the founder of www.DailySmartPhone.com. A newcomer to the blogging world, Mitch has been able to attract the attention of some big name manufacturers of smartphone accessories and application developers by offering video reviews of their products.

Mitch has graciously written up a step-by-step tutorial on setting up multiple Gmail accounts on your Android device. If you are interested in reading it, click more

One of the issues I had with running multiple sites and having dedicated email addresses for each one was finding the best way to manage these accounts on my Motorola Droid. I am a huge Google fan and of course love Gmail. I have the option to use the webmail service provided by Go Daddy but I prefer to run everything through Gmail. So originally I set my Gmail up to do three things. 1) Check my various accounts using POP3. 2) Send mail from Gmail as if I was sending it from the original account. 3) Created labels with a title for each email account and had the mail bypass the inbox and go straight to that folder. This setup works great while on a computer but not so much while mobile. The best setup I had found up until last week was to make a short cut on my Droid to each label but then I was only able to check the mail via that label. If I was to try and reply my personal email address would be the sent from address the recipient would see. A HUGE pet peeve of mine, let me repeat that again. A HUGE pet peeve of mine is a company that has a domain but for some unknown reason still uses free email services as their email address. Ex. www.BobsPlumbing.com but Bob uses [email protected] That is like nails on a chalkboard for me. So I always had to wait until I could get to a computer to respond. I tried using the Email client built in to the Android OS but like I said I wanted everything within Gmail plus it did not really work all of the time for me. Well last week the Mashable Twitter account posted a link to “How To Set Up Gmail As Your E-mail Business Client” by Matt Silverman. I read through Matt’s steps and had an ahh ha moment. After a little trial and error I figured out how to add multiple Gmail accounts to my Android device.

After completing the steps described by Matt now turn to your Droid.

Step 1: Open Gmail>Menu Button>Accounts>Add Account
Step 2: Following the prompts enter your information. This step may take a couple minutes.
Step 3: Choose what you want to sync. You have the option to sync “Contacts” and/or “Gmail”. For me all I wanted to sync was Gmail. Hit finish.

Now that you have your account setup lets fine tune it.

Step 4: Select the account you just added. Then Menu>Settings
Step 5: Enter your signature. My preference is to make it look the same as if you sent it from your laptop. Take care to make sure that it is entered the same.
Step 6: Confirm delete. Ok guys not sure why this is not a default option but go ahead and enable this. We would not want any accidents would we?
Step 7: Syncing labels. You can choose to sync any labels you may have setup for this account.
Step 8: Enable Email notifications and select an individual ringtone and vibrate option if you would like.
Step 9: Just like you did in Matt’s instructions you need to fire off a few test emails to make sure everything works.

While this setup works great for me I would love to hear what works for you? How do you have your BlackBerry, iPhone or Palm device setup? Please leave comments below with your feedback.

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