I’m slow to some things, believe it or not. I am just getting to testing out Feedburner’s Subscribe by Email option on RSS feeds. What’s that mean? It means that you can now subscribe to my blog using your email account rather than using RSS feeds and feed readers, if you so desire.
Of course, I’ve subscribed to myself doing this, so we’ll see what I get once I hit the publish button on this post. Eventually, my idea is to offer this service on my library’s website. Let’s see what happens!
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Andrew 06.10.08 at 8:22 pm
David,
I’ve set up this feature on all of the blogs I manage and it seems to work really well. How would you set up your library’s website to do this as well?
John 06.11.08 at 6:54 am
Self-subscribing by email gives me a backup copy of my posts, just in case, you know.
davidleeking 06.11.08 at 7:19 am
Andrew - I’m thinking we’ll set up a library feedburner account, then dump our 30 feeds into it and then embed the email code on the appropriate pages.
John - what a cool idea - I hadn’t even thought about using it that way!
Talking Books Librarian 06.11.08 at 10:09 am
I use Feedburner email subscriptions on my blog and have had good success with it. I’d say about 1/3 of my readers are subscribed via email. Let’s face it, some people don’t use Bloglines, Google Reader, etc…. some people prefer to get blog subscriptions via email. The only problem I had was for about 3 days when Feedburner dropped all my email subscriptions. But then they came back a few days later - some glitch with their system I think.
-Talking Books Librarian at http://talkingbookslibrarian.blogspot.com