03/07/2009

ProBlogger: Feedburner Add Customizable Subject Lines to Email Subscriptions

One month ago I wrote an open letter to Google/Feedburner suggesting
that it might be time to add some more features to Feedburner -
particularly the ability to customize subject lines of those
subscribing to a feed via RSS.

It seems that they've been hard at work on that very feature.

Today I logged into my Feedburner account and noticed this in the
'Email Branding' area.

Yep - it's the feature we've been waiting for! All you need to do now
is add the tag ${latestItemTitle} into the subject line and it looks
like you're set to have new subject lines on each email sent.

There's no official word on this new feature yet from Feedburner.

Ironically it was only a few hours ago that I emailed a few questions
to Feedburner who have agreed to an interview here on ProBlogger.
Expect to hear more from Feedburner in the coming few days - hopefully
this is a sign of things to come as they take Feedburner to the next
level!

Thanks for listening Feedburner.

A hat tip to Carrie who emailed me about this new feature - nice pick up!

Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.

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