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FeedBurner E-Mail Notification Article Now Online

Posted on February 9th, 2007 at 5:53 am ·
Filed in: RSS WordPress Books   

Informit gets around to publishing one of the articles I wrote in December.

Back in December, I added individual RSS feeds on FeedBurner for the book support categories on this site. The main reason I did this was to take advantage of FeedBurner’s e-mail notification feature.

E-mail notification is like RSS feeds for novices. Instead of requiring users to know how to set up a live bookmark or configure a feed reader to get new content, it simply delivers new content to subscribers automatically once a day via e-mail. Whether I write one entry or ten in a day, the contents of those entries are compiled nightly into a single e-mail message and sent out to subscribers. That’s all they get. No junk mail, no spam, no annoying reminders. Best of all, the e-mail message includes links that subscribers can use to check out the article on my site or leave comments. And a link to unsubscribe that actually works.

When I set this feature up for my book support categories, I wrote an article about it that explained, with screenshots, how to get the job done. I submitted it to my overworked editor at Informit.com, she gave me the thumbs up, and it ended up in Informit’s publication pipeline. I approved the edits in mid January and began waiting to see it appear online.

Informit apparently publishes new content weekly on Fridays. At least, that’s how it seems to me. My articles always seem to come out on Fridays. “Add Email Notification to Your Blog with FeedBurner” appeared this morning.

Enjoy.

Oh, and by the way, there are three more articles in the Informit pipeline. I’ll let you know when they appear. You can always find a complete list of my articles, with links to the ones that can be read online, on my Articles page.

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