We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven't yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want to convert people and if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn't yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes.
This is the third part of a three part series of posts on different RSS to Email Solutions. You can read Part 1 which reviews Feedburner’s system here and Part 2, a review of Feedblitz here.
According to a new white paper from the Council of PR Firms, in the next five years, “social media must become part of the way public relations practitioners do business or they will become obsolete.” From “Relating to the Public: The Evolving Role of Public Relations in the Age of Social Media,” available as a PDF here.
In his comment Jason talks about a ‘points system’ which he’s developed for helping him to keep his blog achieving the momentum that he wants it to.
His daily goal is 50 points and different tasks get him different amounts of posts. I’ll let him explain (note - I’ve slightly reformatted his comments):
Over the weekend I managed to increase the number of subscribers to my Digital Photography School RSS feed by around 15%. Before Friday it was sitting at around the 20,000 subscriber mark and 3 days later it’s just over 23,000 subscribers.
Having asked the question I thought I’d give a quick answer myself to shed a little light on one strategy (of many) that I’ve been using.
I ask questions
But just as often it [good journalism] takes facts that are lying in plain sight and synthesizes them, or arranges them in a way — sometimes in a narrative — that really exposes some new meaning on an important subject.