Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Y! Alert: Wikimedia UK Blog

[Michael Peel]

On 26 Aug 2009, at 00:48, David Gerard wrote:

> 2009/8/26 Thomas Dalton :
>> 2009/8/26 Andrew Turvey :
>
>>> My question: would people like, in principle to receive an alert  
>>> like this
>>> to this email group whenever a blog story is published?
>>> If so, is a Yahoo Alert like below good enough?
>>> Does anyone know of any other system that is better?
>
>
> I use an extension, Subscribe2, on my WordPress blogs:
>
> http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/
>
> I'd suggest this or a similar plugin to be installed on the blog.
> Works really nicely. Anyone can subscribe for email updates too.
>
> (Is the blog site hosted by Wikimedia? If so, file a bug and ask the
> devs and stuff.)

subscribe2 is now installed. Please let me know if there's any  
problems with it.

The blog's hosted by WMUK, not WMF. I've done all the setup, which  
means that it's nice and easy to make modifications such as this (and  
also undo them if necessary).

Mike

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Y! Alert: Wikimedia UK Blog

[Casey Brown]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Andrew
Turvey wrote:
> Now that we've got this new blog, it would be useful if we could get the
> various media integrated so that the message is getting through all the
> different channels.

For posting to social networks (like twitter, which you guys have
now), Ping.fm  is very useful.  It posts the same
message to a ton of networks. :-)

> Does anyone know of any other system that is better?
>

You could try feedburner out, maybe. 

-- 
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Y! Alert: Wikimedia UK Blog

[David Gerard]

2009/8/26 Thomas Dalton :
> 2009/8/26 Andrew Turvey :

>> My question: would people like, in principle to receive an alert like this
>> to this email group whenever a blog story is published?
>> If so, is a Yahoo Alert like below good enough?
>> Does anyone know of any other system that is better?


I use an extension, Subscribe2, on my WordPress blogs:

http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/

I'd suggest this or a similar plugin to be installed on the blog.
Works really nicely. Anyone can subscribe for email updates too.

(Is the blog site hosted by Wikimedia? If so, file a bug and ask the
devs and stuff.)


- d.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Y! Alert: Wikimedia UK Blog

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/8/26 Andrew Turvey :
> My question: would people like, in principle to receive an alert like this
> to this email group whenever a blog story is published?

Yes.

> If so, is a Yahoo Alert like below good enough?

Maybe.

> Does anyone know of any other system that is better?

I hope so.

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[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: Y! Alert: Wikimedia UK Blog

[Andrew Turvey]

Now that we've got this new blog, it would be useful if we could get the 
various media integrated so that the message is getting through all the 
different channels. 

I've been looking at ways to get blog posts automatically fed into the email 
list. I've come across Yahoo Alerts, which runs off the RSS feed and seems to 
work, but it doesn't give you any images and mixes in the image captions to the 
text. Of course there is a link to the story if anyone wants to follow up. 

My question: would people like, in principle to receive an alert like this to 
this email group whenever a blog story is published? 

If so, is a Yahoo Alert like below good enough? 

Does anyone know of any other system that is better? 

Andrew 

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