Doing Words: Zookoda - blogger’s best friend
Cameron Reilly
· 3 years ago
EMAILS the posts?? Are you frakking kidding me? Aren't we all busting our asses trying to CUT DOWN the amount of email out there by educating the world about RSS?
alan
· 3 years ago
Hehe, whatever refreshes your browser dude, but you'll never convert all of humanity to RSS, we're all different. For everyone who likes to read their stuff in an RSS client there's another person who likes everything to land in the one email inbox (including me.)
Don't know about you, but I'm not on a mission to convert the world to RSS, I'm on a mission to increase my audience. However they want to consume it is fine by me if it doesn't add to my workload, and Zookoda seems to be set-and-forget so far.
Darren
· 3 years ago
I think it's a good idea. I used to be anti newsletters but am finding that a certain % of my readers WANT to be kept up to date via a newsletter (that's based on the numbers that sign up for it). Very keen to test this out and looking forward to catching up with Nick in person this week.
Clay Cook
· 3 years ago
Hi Alan,
I have had to use this comments area as I can't seem to find your contact details...
I receive your feed and notice that you only send out the first paragraph in the feed and to read more people have to go to your web page.
I would love to know how you set this up??
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kindest Regards Clay Cook
Yorke Hinds
· 3 years ago
Alan, thanks for the very cool post.
Zookoda has been a work in progress for the past 4 months and finally we're in public beta. The response so far has been very positive, with beta testers providing heaps of good comments.
Your feedback on Cameron's comment was spot on! Zookoda is all about assisting bloggers to drive traffic back to their sites. The differrnce between rss/atom feeds and Zookoda (email) is "pull" vs "push". Zookoda enables bloggers to grow their community through email subscription and broadcast (push) their content to the audience at a given time, promoting their blog and increasing blog awareness.
In response to Clay's comment, Zookoda enables you to set the number of characters (max 750) of each blog post. In order to drive traffic back to your blog it requires "teasing" the audience with valued content, without giving them the entire post.
alan
· 3 years ago
Sorry Clay, I blew my PowerBook yesterday and I'm only just catching up with correspondence now. Thanks very much for subscribing! What Yorke says is basically right - my RSS feed includes the full content of each post, but Zookoda is setup to lure you back to the webpage.
If you want to reach me directly rather than via comment, you can use alandotjonesatyahoodotcom
cheers
John-Paul
· 3 years ago
Amen Alan! The business owner's mindset lives!
"... you'll never convert all of humanity to RSS, we're all different... Don't know about you, but I'm not on a mission to convert the world to RSS, I'm on a mission to increase my audience..."
It's nice to see common sense beginning to permeate the business blogging community.
It's great to be a 'blogging enthusiast' high on blogging. After all, especially in multi media format -- blogs and RSS hold exponential marketing power.
But it's another thing to pass oneself off as a 'blogging evangelist' when really being nothing more than a 'blogging Nazi', trying to force people (especially business owners) into a box of arbitrary rules. Unfortunately there are too many bloggers out there that think they're the first, but really are the second. They just don't get what it is to have the business owner's mindset like you!
Keep on building that list! And thanks for the heads up on Zookoda!
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Don't know about you, but I'm not on a mission to convert the world to RSS, I'm on a mission to increase my audience. However they want to consume it is fine by me if it doesn't add to my workload, and Zookoda seems to be set-and-forget so far.
I have had to use this comments area as I can't seem to find your contact details...
I receive your feed and notice that you only send out the first paragraph in the feed and to read more people have to go to your web page.
I would love to know how you set this up??
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kindest Regards
Clay Cook
Zookoda has been a work in progress for the past 4 months and finally we're in public beta.
The response so far has been very positive, with beta testers providing heaps of good comments.
Your feedback on Cameron's comment was spot on! Zookoda is all about assisting bloggers to drive traffic back to
their sites. The differrnce between rss/atom feeds and Zookoda (email) is "pull" vs "push". Zookoda enables bloggers to
grow their community through email subscription and broadcast (push) their content to the audience at a given time,
promoting their blog and increasing blog awareness.
In response to Clay's comment, Zookoda enables you to set the number of characters (max 750) of each blog post.
In order to drive traffic back to your blog it requires "teasing" the audience with valued content,
without giving them the entire post.
If you want to reach me directly rather than via comment, you can use alandotjonesatyahoodotcom
cheers
"... you'll never convert all of humanity to RSS, we're all different... Don't know about you, but I'm not on a mission to convert the world to RSS, I'm on a mission to increase my audience..."
It's nice to see common sense beginning to permeate the business blogging community.
It's great to be a 'blogging enthusiast' high on blogging. After all, especially in multi media format -- blogs and RSS hold exponential marketing power.
But it's another thing to pass oneself off as a 'blogging evangelist' when really being nothing more than a 'blogging Nazi', trying to force people (especially business owners) into a box of arbitrary rules. Unfortunately there are too many bloggers out there that think they're the first, but really are the second. They just don't get what it is to have the business owner's mindset like you!
Keep on building that list! And thanks for the heads up on Zookoda!