I’ve been searching for other tools to automate the email notification options for a weblog. While RSS is all the rage and the best way to go, IMHO, most visitors to a website/weblog still don’t use it or know how to use it.
For several years, I’ve used Dada (Mojo) Mail for my own blogs and a few clients and although I still like it, I’ve not figured out how to make it work seamlessly with weblogs.
A few months ago, I noticed that Feedburner, which I now use for all my RSS feeds (free), added an email notification option which emails an individual blog entry out to list subscribers as soon as the blog entry is posted.
And then earlier this week, a UK colleague and blogger Mike Alderson at Open Eye Communications alerted me to Problogger (“Helping bloggers earn money”) where I saw how he was using email for his site visitors… both Feedburner‘s email service and a service I’d not heard of called Zookoda (free) which he installed back in March. It works in harmony with the RSS feed and has the great advantage of allowing you to send out emails automatically (“broadcast” is their term), once per week or per month or per number of new posts (the latter is the option I’m going to use and recommend for most of my clients).
So I’ve set up these two new features on my right sidebar, plus I’ve created a Subscription Options page where all this is explained, along with the RSS feed and podcast. And I’m going to use it today to broadcast to all the subscribers who previously had signed up to my Dada/Mojo list.
If you’re a client and would like me to set this up for your weblog, let me know.
