I've Made Life a Bit Easier For You. Email and RSS Feeds All Spruced Up and Shiny.

I love Feedburner.  It makes life so nice and simple.  And even if you’re going “Huh?” because you’ve never heard the name before, that’s what’s so great about it.  You don’t have to know anything about Feedburner at all.  It all happens in the background.

RSS Feeds are what make blogging life so creative.  If you’re reading this post on Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo, or Google, you’re doing it because I’ve arranged for the RSS Feed to be  piped into those locations.  Each time I post to my blog, the feed for that post (basically, a replica of the text and pictures, or sometimes an abbreviated version, depending on what the owner has chosen to allow) goes to those locations, and a couple others, including the headlines to Twitter and Digg, etc.  I’m still waiting for Multiply to allow me to add Wordpress blogs to my page. ;)

If you’re reading this post on my blog itself, then you’re not using one of the feeds at all, you’re reading at the source.

But did you know that you, too, can use my feed in your own personal and creative ways?  You can chose to channel my blog feed to wherever you find it convenient.  That means you can add it to your Facebook page, Yahoo profile, your Google Reader, Outlook (which reads RSS feeds), your personalized Google homepage, or any other personalized page that allows you to channel RSS feeds.

And not just my feed.  You can do this with any RSS feed you find anywhere on the Internet.  Whenever you see that little orange icon, you know you have an RSS Feed available that you can add to your collection, if you wish.  (If you’re using Firefox, and the webpage you’re on happens to have an RSS Feed, the orange RSS icon pops up in the URL address bar at the top of the window, letting you know there’s a feed.  You can right-click on the icon and direct the feed to where you want it.)

The point of this mini-lesson is a lead up to the fact that I’ve just spring-cleaned my own RSS feeds via Feedburner, which allows me to provide to you the full monty — the entire post plus pictures and links.  You can also subscribe to the comments, too.

I’ve added links to the sidebar on the right that you can click on to subscribe in various ways, including one of the most popular, Google Reader.

I’ve also added a special one:  Subscribing via email.  (Look to the right…or if you’re reading this anywhere but on my blog, you’ll have to come here to see it.)  This will deliver the entire post via email to your inbox once a day.  Even if I’ve posted two posts that day, it will bundle them up into one post, including the pictures and live links, and put them into the email and send it to your inbox for you.  The live links will let you pop back here instantly if you’re moved to comment.

I added the subscribing via email feature because I happen to love this one myself and I love blogs that offer this option because I don’t particular like reading blogs in readers.  I’m so used to managing my life and business via email, that getting blog posts in emails is a great way to keep up with news.  So that’s partially why I love Feedburner so much — it lets me offer email subscriptions.

And now that I’ve spent way too much of my Saturday at my desk doing housekeeping on my blog, I’d better go do that other housekeeping.  I’ve procrastinated enough….

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