Friday, October 26, 2007

Pushing blog posts

Anita said that to be useful, the blog would have to push posts out, rather than the user having to log-in to see if there is anything new. I agree.

There are a few ways of doing this, depending on your choice of browser and personal preference.

I have added two ways to receive pushed posts

Via your browser:
  • If you use Firefox, then clicking on the small orange square (with a dot and 2 circle quadrants) will add a feed to your bookmarks. Each time a new Post is made, the title of the Post is fed automatically to your favorites list. Clicking on the blog title in your drop-down favorites list will display all post titles, without having to go to the Lincoln Write Stuff blog site. This works almost identically for Windows explorer (at least from IE 5 onwards). I don't know how the Mac handles this - but I suspect it is superior.

By your email:
  • I have added an email subscription facility provided by Feedburner (now a part of Google). Simply click the link on the left hand side of the blog page that says Subscribe to blog and fill in your email address on the page provided. Verify your subscription when you get an email from Feedburner and you will receive one email per day of all posts made on that day. If there are no Posts then there will be no email.
I hope this helps users get the most out of our group.

Let me know if anything else is missing.

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