If I join the site, will I receive automatic email notifications from the site?
Submitted by janetsville on Sat, 02/02/2008 - 10:27am.
Once you join the site and have been approved, you can log in and edit various options. On the top right hand screen is a set of menu choices, click on My account. Once in your account screen, click on the Edit tab. There you can make various changes including the option to turn off Email notifications if desired.
Turning off email notification
I actually considered turning off the automatic email notification, but the more I thought about it I like the feature. In my busy day I respond to email since it comes directly to me...so seeing the notification of new posts reminds me to go back to the site.
Every time I see the
Every time I see the statistics, it comes down to each of us visits maybe five web sites regularly - the mix is different for each of us, but consider: Google, Wikipedia, our workplace intranet or portal, maybe a professional site, maybe a community site (e.g., Boston.com or the Newton Tab blog?). After that, nobody has the time to rememember to surf, and then log into, dozens of sites a day. On the other hand, it's easy to subscribe to 100s of mail lists, and then have them filtered into different folders.
That's the reason email lists, and sites that send new-posting announcements via email get used and survive.
Another option--Web feeds
Another option to email lists is using a Web Feed Reader to subscribe and follow your favorite sites via their web feeds. This is becoming increasingly popular as sites make feeds more available, feed readers become more powerful and people learn how to use them.
In my blog? series on Web 2.0 Technology Topics, I already discussed Web Feed technology. Thanks to this comment? thread, I got motivated to finish my next post on Feed Reader Technology. Hopefully these two feed-related entries help explain why feeds are important and how to use them.