5 tips to help you make the most of your Gmail account

Tweet Google continues to roll out improvements for it's Gmail service. With the many capabilities of Gmail, here are some tips to help you maximize the use of your account:

Priority Inbox - A newly launched feature, Google uses it's spam filtering technology to determine which messages are most important. You can also "train" the filter by using the "+" or "-" buttons in your Priority Inbox to tell Gmail which messages are/ are not important to you.

If you've maxed out the 7GB storage limit on your account, try signing up for a new Gmail account and importing mail from your old account into the new account.

Buzz - Google's foray into location-based social-networking. You can post status updates and share links, photos and videos with other Gmail users. Buzz may also be accessible on your web enabled cell phone.

GMail Plus addressing - A great tool for managing your inbox. You can add a "+" and any combination of words to your Gmail address, i.e., gmailer+mailinglist@gmail.com when signing up for emailing mailing lists. Emails to your "+" address will be delivered to your gmailer@gmail.com inbox but you can label, star, archive or delete using filters for the different versions of your address. This is particularly helpful when a service that has your "+" email address has shared/sold your email address to another mailing list - you can set a filter to auto-delete the unwanted messages.

Multiple account sign-in - Another new feature - if you have more than one Google account (not just Gmail), you can enable multiple sign-in in your settings. The first account that you sign-in to will be the default account for your browser session. You may be signed-in to up to three accounts simultaneously using the same browser session. Caution: if you sign-out of any one account, you will be signed out of all accounts