Well that subject line was a question I received recently.  Now our early beta users users know this feature very well but I thought not everybody is aware of it's full impact.

Recently we rolled out an interesting feature where users can set up their multiple email accounts. This multiple email account is like having multiple passports. You can travel to the wonderful world of blogging and twittering from any email clients.

Now it won't be a big deal if it was just multiple email account configuration, possibilities this feature enables is where it gets really interesting.

Let's look at recent events and understand how these funny sounding technology tools (blogging and twittering!) are really saving lives and making an impact on our ability to express ourselves.

Mercury News recently reported about how Berkeley student survived his arrest in Egypt by making a timely help plea on Twitter. In this case having an option of channeling your distress signal was key to his survival.

We are all familiar with government authorities blocking access to expression tools. Recently we saw how Chinese government is blocking access to Blogger blogs in order to suppress dissenting voices.

Even going beyond state sponsored suppression, we have seen some companies going overboard with their security policy implementations. Now I am definitely not advocating throwing corporate security practices out of the window. All we are doing is connecting more dots which generate more options for expressing yourself. Having multiple ways to reach out to your point of expression is a great option to have.

Going beyond these news items, we have clear productivity objectives as well. 

We are uniquely capable of coming up with different ideas based on our surrounding context. Take some of these examples - You are sitting in Starbucks, imagination strikes you and you want to blog using your iPhone. You are sitting in office cubicle and you have strong urge to send tweet, use your Outlook client to send tweets. You are at the airport in some far away country and only tool available is an internet kiosk which only allows Hotmail (you would be surprised once you step out of Silicon Valley!), use Hotmail to blog your field reports. To me this very idea of detaching tool dependency from the urge to express is a big help.

Here is how you can start blogging and twittering (from office mail - @officemail.com!, home mail  - @pacbell.net anybody!, airport kiosk, Starbucks, iPhone, Blackberry etc etc) virtually anywhere.

Just put in your multiple email addresses (the ones you will send from) in DanceFloor > Manage Email. MessageDance validates that you are a valid sender and routes your content to where you want it to go.

You can just address your messages to "<you> @ messagedance.com" and have it go to multiple social destinations including Twitter, Facebook, Xanga, MySpace and more!  Write a blog post and send it to "blog @ messagedance.com". Send you photos to your private photos section in Facebook by sending them to "photo @ messagedance.com".

If you don't have MessageDance account, please signup for MessageDance beta program and we will approve your request for full access.

http://www.messagedance.com/user/signup

If you are already on Facebook or Twitter, then you can avoid beta signup path and signup directly using following links:

http://apps.facebook.com/messagedance
http://www.messagedance.com/twittermail

Now finding your cellphone email address is not as trivial as you might imagine. I will be publishing list of popular email signatures related to leading telecom service providers. In the meantime please check these links -

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/splash/blackberry.jsp
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/h/3249
http://cellphoneforums.net/verizon/t172216-what-my-text-email-address.html