There's something more personal about receiving an email. My email subs are for my favourite sites (Nielsen, for example; although he doesn't leave much choice as he doesn't do RSS and I can't see him tweeting).
I think older subscribers prefer email, younger RSS. I encourage visitors to my site to follow me on Twitter, not just so they get more Leon-ness; it also gives me some more interesting people to follow.
Sometimes. I often trust blogs - if they say they will ONLY send you a particular type of newsletter then that's what they will deliver and they're not likely to share my e-mail address to a 3rd party.
RSS, Twitter and email newsletters can deliver slightly different things, or at least in a different way. I still subscribe to a few (less than in the past) and prefer Twitter. But if a publisher has a lot to say often (eg news providers), sometimes it's easier to scan a short list provided regularly than a Twitter feed (continuous) or RSS feed (can be long). Different tools for different purposes.
The problem with newsletters is I do not have time to read them and RSS with software like Times allows me to filer articles that way I know what I am reading is exactly what I want to read. I am sadly subscribed to a few newsletters that just sit and become 'read' in passing.
Never.
I agree with Terry, RSS and Twitter make everything way simpler.
Although on my site, most of the users are (not the brightest) 7th graders who probably don't use Twitter and have no idea what RSS is, so we have an email newsletter system integrated into Wordpress, and we barely ever use it anymore.
No. Why not? Cause it is not simple enough. RSS is simple, Twitter is simple. E-letter is HTML (which is crappy on some clients) or PDFs (which are heavy and ofter not nice to browse through).
There's something more personal about receiving an email. My email subs are for my favourite sites (Nielsen, for example; although he doesn't leave much choice as he doesn't do RSS and I can't see him tweeting).
I think older subscribers prefer email, younger RSS. I encourage visitors to my site to follow me on Twitter, not just so they get more Leon-ness; it also gives me some more interesting people to follow.
Sometimes. I often trust blogs - if they say they will ONLY send you a particular type of newsletter then that's what they will deliver and they're not likely to share my e-mail address to a 3rd party.
RSS, Twitter and email newsletters can deliver slightly different things, or at least in a different way. I still subscribe to a few (less than in the past) and prefer Twitter. But if a publisher has a lot to say often (eg news providers), sometimes it's easier to scan a short list provided regularly than a Twitter feed (continuous) or RSS feed (can be long). Different tools for different purposes.
The problem with newsletters is I do not have time to read them and RSS with software like Times allows me to filer articles that way I know what I am reading is exactly what I want to read. I am sadly subscribed to a few newsletters that just sit and become 'read' in passing.
Never.
I agree with Terry, RSS and Twitter make everything way simpler.
Although on my site, most of the users are (not the brightest) 7th graders who probably don't use Twitter and have no idea what RSS is, so we have an email newsletter system integrated into Wordpress, and we barely ever use it anymore.
Yeah.
Yes, very often. I'm not a geek and I'm sure e-mails can be read anywhere, on any support.
Agreed. Much rather use RSS and, increasingly, Twitter for this sort of stuff. The last thing I need is more in my inbox
No. Why not? Cause it is not simple enough. RSS is simple, Twitter is simple. E-letter is HTML (which is crappy on some clients) or PDFs (which are heavy and ofter not nice to browse through).
Agree with Terry. With twitter e-letter are so much less personal.
RSS and now Twitter is more than effective for keeping up on things.