Beta Blog Forwards to Newsletters
Lome, Togo West Africa
Friday, March 16, 2007
I am teasing with my techie from India, I am telling him,
- Forwards goes BETA. -
I am not sure what Beta means in technical terms, I do know how they mean or use it, I suppose it has something more than Greek Alphabet for reasoning behind it.
What is mean to me is this, we have something that works, we think is functioning, but we are going to start using it and testing it, it is in the Beta phase, need to test and watch, not perfect.
What is happening is this, I like to receive newsletters by emails, I really think more people read the blog by email than this new RSS or ATOM reader system, I think they just add and disregard, adding hundreds of reads into these systems and forget. It is very hard to forget an email, I must delete a newsletter that comes by emails, so there is a reaction. This must be some type of Marketing 101 class, passive versus active participation.
I cannot use RSS Feeds or Atom and find them extremely difficult to use from internet cafes and others ways, requiring way too much effort and time. I can download emails and take home, read in my room.
We have made a forwards system, I send ONE email and it goes now to three separate newsletters serving system, it will start to activate tomorrow.
This means or the bottom line is a person can choose a few more ways to read the blog. A long time ago we added the Yahoogroups.com feature, about a year ago, I started sending also to Googlegroups.com. A few days ago, I signed up with a long-term helper to HoboTraveler.com and an original sender of newsletters Topica.com.
A reader can choose as they wish:
Yahoogroups.com
