Email alert for MGoBlog main page posts - take 2

Submitted by Keith on

I posed the question of how to receive email alerts whenever there is a new post on the main page yesterday.  I received some helpful hints, but I haven't yet reached a solution.  The two suggestions I followed:

1.  Signing up for Twitter and following MGoBlog.  I have done this.  However, I am not receiving emails from Twitter when there is a new Tweet from Brian/MGoBlog.  I know that text message alerts are available, but I do not want to receive text message alerts.

2.  Subscribing to the RSS feed.  I have done this.  However, I do not want to use Yahoo's customizable homepage, Google Reader, or any other application.  I would like to receive the RSS feed to my Gmail account, if possible.

Any help in solving my insignificant problem will be greatly appreciated.

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Keith

December 30th, 2010 at 2:23 PM ^

It's not that hard. However, it would be more convenient if I received the notifications via email. I don't think it's that ridiculous to ask for advice on something that would improve my mgoblog experience, regardless of how convenient your brilliant workarounds may seem to you.

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Keith

December 30th, 2010 at 3:06 PM ^

but my understanding is that if you sign up for Twitter and follow MGoBlog, it's pretty easy to sign up for text message alerts when there is a new Tweet from MGoBlog (which there is whenever there is an addition to the main page, as far as I can tell).

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GCS

December 30th, 2010 at 3:12 PM ^

  1. Sign up for Twitter.
  2. Under account settings, add your cell phone and allow Twitter to send you text message notifications from people you've enabled for notifications.
  3. Follow MGoBlog.
  4. Enable MGoBlog for mobile notifications.

You will then get a notification every time the link to a main article goes up there.

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turd sandwich

December 30th, 2010 at 3:30 PM ^

Try http://www.feedmyinbox.com/

I haven't used it personally but I suppose it's as close to a solution as you will find.

EDIT: this will send a once-daily alert, not on a per-post basis. Also, just in case you happen to use Outlook 2007, know that you can use it to subscribe to RSS feeds. 

EDIT 2: another idea would be to set up an "as-it-happens" google alert for mgoblog.  You would get all mgoblog updates plus any mentions of mgoblog around the web.

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