How does RSS compare with e-mail, and with social media like Twitter and Facebook–what are the advantages of each?
All of these broadcast tools are slightly different in scope. Each allows you to deliver current information, but each has different advantages and limitations. RSS feeds allow you to deliver your entire blog post, including graphics via email, or in plain text sans graphics to a reader or a mobile device. The safest way to deliver email, such as a newsletter, is in plain text and it cannot be reformatted to be read well on a mobile device. Both of these delivery systems allow you to include far more information than you can on social media sites like FaceBook, and especially on Twitter, which has a 140 character limitation. However, Twitter and FaceBook are both very useful to announce that you have a new blog post and that will drive more traffic to your site. That is another reason why blog posts are becoming more popular than a newsletter. FaceBook and Twitter are also great tools for acquiring more followers. Q: Your blogging book recommends using and hosting with Blogger.com. I’v
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