[WEB4LIB] RE: Library blog question

[Broun, Kevin (NIH/NCI)]

Yup, I have to agree with Bill.  Just looked at my server logs for 2005 so
far.  I can attribute a few dozen hits on my library/intranet RSS feeds to
IP addresses other than my own.  Over the same time period, we have sent a
couple thousand emails notifying several hundred different clients about
content they've subscribed to.  Sure, we can do more to educate our users
about the feeds -- but for the most part, they aren't interested or ready
for it yet.  I also discussed this issue in that article I was flacking in
my last post...

- Kevin

Kevin Broun
Senior Web Developer
National Cancer Institute
kbroun at nih.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: Drew, Bill [mailto:drewwe at MORRISVILLE.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:16 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Library blog question


 I don't want to start a flame war here but I am looking to get
information to them in the way they prefer or are familiar with, not
what I might prefer.  RSS being considered better than e-mail is a
preference not a fact.  Please don't hijack this post for such a dead
end discussion.

Bill Drew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sauers
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:06 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Library blog question
> 
> > I am looking for some way to make them available
> > via e-mail as new entries are added.  I would like to find 
> some way to
> > let patrons "subscribe" to a particular category and have 
> them receive
> > it via e-mail, preferably the actual entry but would settle 
> for a note
> > saying it had been updated or a new entry added.  Each 
> category has an
> > RSS feed.
> 
> Bill;
> 
> It may have been on this list, it may have been on another, 
> but you're the
> second person I've encountered in the past week on this 
> issue. What's with
> the wanting e-mail notification of updates. Notification are 
> what the RSS