How to Subscribe to the NEDMA Conference Blog — and Maybe Win a $10 Starbucks Card for the Effort

In lieu of writing something about one of our speakers, sponsors or exhibitors, I thought I would take the time this week to encourage you to not just read, but subscribe to the NEDMA ’06, It’s a Brave New World Conference Blog.  As a subscriber, you’ll know whenever the blog has been updated with new information without ever having to actually go to it.  It’ll come to you.

You Can Subscribe by Email…

There are two ways to subscribe.  If you would like to be notified by email, all you need to do is click on the link near the top of the sidebar to the right that says, “Receive email updates through FeedBlitz.”  You’ll be taken to the FeedBlitz site, where you’ll be asked for your email address.  Subscribe this way to the NEDMA ’06 Conference Blog and every time we post something new, you’ll get an email from FeedBlitz containing a portion of the new content – you’ll have to click through to the blog itself to read the post in its entirety.

…Or You Can Subscribe by RSS

Then there’s RSS, or Really Simple Syndication.  This is a way for you to subscribe to this blog – and as many others as you like – through an instantaneous feed brought to you by a feed reader (or aggregator) such as Bloglines.   

At first, RSS may sound confusing, but it’s really not.  And many online marketing experts say it’s the wave of the future, so it makes a lot of sense to at least become familiar with it.

RSS means both the sender and receiver don’t have to worry about the filters that can inadvertently block legitimate emails from reaching their destination.

RSS makes it possible for you to receive all – and only – the content you want, when you want it, where you want it.  

Bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change, Seth Godin, explains RSS in his own inimitable way on his blog, which you’ll find by clicking here.             

Or to learn even more about RSS, you might want to click here and read Backbone Media’s Corporate Blogging Survey, which contains an excellent definition of the term in addition to everything else you would want to know about this revolutionary, self-publishing platform called a blog. 

All that said, the aforementioned Bloglines is the feed reader I’d like to recommend (although there are many other good ones, of course).  To subscribe to this blog using Bloglines, just click on the link near the top of the sidebar to the right that says, “Track updates through Bloglines.”  This will take to you the Bloglines site, where you’ll first register for a free account, then subscribe to the feed for the NEDMA ’06, It’s a Brave New World Conference Blog, among as many other blogs as you’d like to monitor.  It’s that easy.

Your Chance to Win a $10 Starbucks Card

As an incentive for you to become a subscriber to this blog sooner rather than later, we’re going to give away two $10 Starbucks Cards – one to a reader who subscribes through FeedBlitz and the other to someone who subscribes through Bloglines between the time of this post and 5 PM EST on Monday, March 6. 

To qualify for this drawing, however, you must let us know before the deadline that you’ve subscribed for the first time by sending an email to that includes the day and time you became a subscriber and whether you used FeedBlitz or Bloglines as well as your name, company name, mailing address and phone number.  We’ll announce the two winners here next week.  Good luck!  And thanks for reading – or better yet, subscribing to – the NEDMA ’06, It’s a Brave New World Conference Blog.  

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