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RSS-to-Email Helps Fight Crime

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Douglass Karr over at the Marketing Technology Blog has helped develop a mobile alert plugin for a crime alert website in Indiana.  Alerts are also available as a once-daily email, which is powered using MailChimp’s RSS-to-Email feature!


Started November 1, 2008 and currently serving the Terre Haute and Bloominton, Indiana metro areas, B-Aware sends out crime alerts compiled from local police blotters.  The organization’s goal is to facilitate greater crime awareness amongst local residents.

BlogWell To Be Well

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

BlogWell: How Big Companies Use Social Media
MailChimp is sponsoring BlogWell, a one-day conference organized by GasPedal and Blog Council, that is taking place October 28, 2008 in San Jose, California.  BlogWell is slated to provide unprecedented insight on social media from Cisco, Intel, Wells Fargo, Walmart, UPS, Kaiser Permanente, Graco, and Home Depot.  This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to get started or improve their corporate social media efforts.

One way you can improve your own social media efforts, corporate or otherwise, is by using MailChimp’s RSS to email tool.  You blog it, we mail it.  It’s brilliantly simple!  And when used in conjunction with Chimpfeedr– our very own “stupid simple” RSS feed masher– we guarantee it’ll meet or exceed your daily fiber requirements.

New RSS Feature: Most recent articles

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

If you’re using MailChimp’s new RSS-to-Email feature to send automatic emails to your list whenever you update your blog, we’ve got a new merge tag you might want to include in your content:

*|RSS:RECENT|* 

This will tell MailChimp to insert links to your 5 most recently published articles from your blog. 

If you want, you can hack that merge tag a little bit like this:

*|RSS:RECENT10|*

to insert links to the 10 most recent articles instead.

http://www.mailchimp.com/nonrestrictiveocean.php