Now that we've got this new blog, it would be useful if we could get the various media integrated so that the message is getting through all the different channels.

I've been looking at ways to get blog posts automatically fed into the email list. I've come across Yahoo Alerts, which runs off the RSS feed and seems to work, but it doesn't give you any images and mixes in the image captions to the text. Of course there is a link to the story if anyone wants to follow up.

My question: would people like, in principle to receive an alert like this to this email group whenever a blog story is published?

If so, is a Yahoo Alert like below good enough?

Does anyone know of any other system that is better?

Andrew

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