Another Reminder and Making Progress

Many of you receive a notice each day in your email that we have posted on Mile Markers. The Google service we have used for that is going away soon. I posted a partial solution to that last week. 

I have good news on a couple of fronts. That partial solution may be a complete solution for some of you. I entered my email address into the new service which you will find on the right column when viewing Mile Markers on desktop view. 

I receive a notification each morning, but it is only a link. However, two people sent emails to me with good news. They also put their email into the new service. After confirming with the service, they are receiving the whole blog each morning by email. That should solve the problem. Yay!

If you are having a problem signing up for "Follow it" on our page, there are instructions at this link to the previous post.

AND there are other options as well. Bro. Matt Sponaugle sent an email that is packed full of information about feed readers that inform you when a site has posted. It will not help those of you that need to read the post in your email, but it may be a big help to others.

I appreciate Bro. Matt's help. He gave me permission to pass the information along to you in his words. Thank you, friend.

Here is Bro. Matt Sponaugle in italicized print:

Although not really an exact solution for your readers, I have been following you for years with an RSS feed reader. I am currently using Feedly, but there are many more out there. Simply put, I go to the site every morning on my PC (or use their handy dandy app on my phone) and if any of the bloggers that I follow have posted a blog since the last time I checked, it shows up in a personalized list. I can choose to read or ignore those blogs (I never ignore yours!  ). 

To read it, I simply click on the header which displays the name of the blogger and the title of the blog. It opens up the blog and shows me a partially stripped down version of what you posted. If I want to read it on your website, it links directly to it.

By "partially stripped down", you may want to know that it reads and looks very much like your blog post on your website, but without the background on your site, and without any text formatting that you may have included. 

I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing it may be the same for the emails that people are currently receiving? Like on your site though, if the pictures are links to larger versions of the pictures, a user can click on the picture and go to the linked larger version to zoom in and inspect the tantalizing minute details of the perfectly cooked steak!

So, it may be one extra step (negligible though it may be) but I find that this is by far the quickest and best way for me to see any blog posts that are posted from the bloggers that I follow. I don't have to go to a person's site daily to see if they may or may not have posted. I don't have to open up separate email alerts from the different bloggers saying there is a new blog posted. Oh, and it's instant. Once you post the blog, the feed is posted to Feedly. I don't have to wait for the two hours that you mentioned for the new email service.

Wow! That is a lot of helpful information. Also, if you have a browser on your phone, you can always save our page on your screen and click on it once a day and read.

Hopefully, between those three options, everyone is covered. After all these years of building up readers, I would hate to lose a bunch due to a technical problem.

Thank you for stopping by today, no matter what path you took to arrive. There is only one way to Heaven, but there are lots of ways to Mile Markers!

Davy