The process of creating a new Gmail...and all that needs to be done to transfer!

Once, a long time ago, I created a Gmail account. Back then I followed the rules and did not use my name in the email. BIG mistake! Then at an undetermined time later I created on with my name but did not do anything to continue it and it was lost forever. Fast forward to 2014 and I have created a new Gmail using my name with the addition of AK after it.

So why all this? Because I have a distant cousin with a similar email and we trade emails from time to time as some of mine got sent to him by mistake. Rule 1: when you create an email think about similar spellings and what it might cause sometime in the future.

Now I have not been so active that it is an impossibility to recreate my online presences but it is a process. The old email will still be in use with limits. The new one is for all things related to Google, personal, EdTech and anything else I can dream up.

Google+ is a fairly new area and so I searched for help with how to move from one to the other. Basically it is not possible so I am recreating my Google+. I do hope that I'll be able to use the same custom URL but even that may not be possible. We'll see.

...and then there are the blogs...I can at least be an author for the old email. Now I'm off to continue to recreate my online self!