possible to send to twitter/blog/email all at once?

mctiny · 8 Feb 2011 at 17:33

Is it possible to send information to a website/blog, Twitter and an email list in one action?

For example I want to publish the same information on a blog/website and twitter and possibly send to an email list at the same time...

Can it be done?
How could I go about this?

Pho · 8 Feb 2011 at 17:47

If you want to power it with a blog, then Wordpress + Feedburner will cover Twitter/Email Subscribers, it also lets you offload your RSS feeds to use their servers rather than your own which is handy for tracking subscribers and reducing your bandwidth.

I used these:
FeedBurner Subscription Widget
FD Feedburner Plugin

mctiny · 8 Feb 2011 at 18:12

Pho said:
If you want to power it with a blog, then Wordpress + Feedburner will cover Twitter/Email Subscribers, it also lets you offload your RSS feeds to use their servers rather than your own which is handy for tracking subscribers and reducing your bandwidth.

I used these:
FeedBurner Subscription Widget
FD Feedburner Plugin

sounds like a second option, could i include non-subscribers? I need something to send to the different places to cover as many people as possible, not every body will check the blog, not everybody will have twitter.

HTMLHugo · 8 Feb 2011 at 18:15

ignore me read it properly

Pho · 8 Feb 2011 at 18:59

mctiny said:
sounds like a second option, could i include non-subscribers? I need something to send to the different places to cover as many people as possible, not every body will check the blog, not everybody will have twitter.

Hmm, I think someone somewhere has to have added their email address to Feedburner (on your site you can have a widget on the menu for them to stick their email into to subscribe), then they'll receive email updates whenever you make a new post on Wordpress.

Do you have a big email list? If it's only a handful you could manually add them with the subscribe form I guess.

Feedburner is handy because it manages all of the unsubscribe bits of running email lists for you too.

mctiny · 8 Feb 2011 at 22:36

Pho said:
Hmm, I think someone somewhere has to have added their email address to Feedburner (on your site you can have a widget on the menu for them to stick their email into to subscribe), then they'll receive email updates whenever you make a new post on Wordpress.

Do you have a big email list? If it's only a handful you could manually add them with the subscribe form I guess.

Feedburner is handy because it manages all of the unsubscribe bits of running email lists for you too.

This is what I thought was the only option, so I'll take a look, curious to see if there is a way to "post" straight from an app on the PC.

Honestly there is no list right now, the plan is to post English Lessons or tips to these places, so some people may only have access to one other the portals...

A manual add could be ok to start with, but, when the list grows it's going to be a right pain to keep adding people.

Pho · 8 Feb 2011 at 23:11

I'm sure there will be a way to post directly from the PC, personally I quite like the Wordpress approach as it's easy for people to update the posts.

You can easily stick a box on your website for people to type in their email address which will automatically subscribe them to the Feedburner email list, or if you use Wordpress to power your site/blog use the plugin I mentioned above.

You would only need to manually do it if you were porting over an existing list of people, but as there aren't any no manual adding will be needed

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sist_si · 9 Feb 2011 at 08:45

why not try something like ping.fm
you can multipost to loads of different places and it also has an api.