5 Reasons for Combining Blogs and Mailing Lists / Groups

1. Because you can & it is fun
2. To create an easy to read web location to publish a mailing list communication
3. To spread information outside your group, to use the blog as a communication multiplier
4. easy contribution per email without a login
5. anonymous contribution (over comment field on the blog, sent to mailing list and pushed back as a new post to the blog

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This is the third  post of the series "combinations of blogging and mailng lists" on Qompute.net. The 2008 post "Blogger posting using Google Groups", which was basically a test, is one of the most popular on qompute. In this new series we will look into ways to combine blogging and mailing lists, the opportunities, limits and risks :

1. Combining Blogs and Mailing Lists - Publishing on Blogger using Google Groups (qompute.net)
2. Limits and Risks of Combining Blogs and Mailing Lists (Yahoo Groups / Google Groups etc) (qompute.net)
3. 5 Reasons for Combining Blogs and Mailing Lists / Groups (this post on qompute.net))

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Blogs are popular places. Far easier to read than forum entries or mailing lists. They are great multipliers and spreaders for information. A blog could serve as extension of a mailing list.

Reasons number 4 and 5 are most interesting.

The anonymous contribution is an interesting technique for offering anonymous blackboard postings in a corporation using blogger.com. When using a comment field with the option of anonymous or pseudonyms even the administrator accounts of blogger wouldn't be able to find out who that poster was or what computer the person used.

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The Limits and Risks of Combining Blogs and Mailing Lists / Groups

This is the second post of the series "combinations of blogging and mailng lists" on qompute.net. The 2008 post "Blogger posting using Google Groups" is one of the most popular Blogger posts on qompute. In this new series we will look into ways to combine blogging and mailing lists, the opportunities, limits and risks:

1. Combining Blogs and Mailing Lists - Publishing on Blogger using Google Groups (qompute.net)
2. Limits and Risks of Combining Blogs and Mailing Lists (Yahoo Groups / Google Groups etc) (This post on qompute.net)
3. 5 Reasons for Combining Blogs and Mailing Lists / Groups (qompute.net)

The feedback by blog readers
In order to properly offer blog readers to join the conversation, they should either
subscribe to the group or use a public email address. Or you need to enable to send comments as an email to the mailing list or group.

Side effects
There would be a minor side effect, because the comment is then sent to the group, which sends it back to the blog as a new post. Readers and commenters should be warned of this doubling effect.

Opportunity to hide name of contributors, creating an interesting possibility for anonymous postings
Of course this is also an interesting opportunity to publish posts anonymously. Thereby the comment functionality is transformed to a form for anonymous posts (or simply creating on the spot aliases).

Blogger.com for example does not offer a subject line, thereby it would automatically add the following header.

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Publishing on Blogger using Google Groups

This new series explores the combinations of blogging and mailing lists. The 2008 post "Blogger posting using Google Groups" is one of the most popular Blogger posts on qompute.net. In this new series we will look at the opportunities, limits and risks:

1. Combining Blogs and Mailing Lists - Publishing on Blogger using Google Groups (qompute.net)
2. Limits and Risks of Combining Blogs and Mailing Lists (Yahoo Groups / Google Groups etc) (qompute.net)
3. 5 Reasons for Combining Blogs and Mailing Lists / Groups (qompute.net)

The first question is, does it work? Yes of course. Here is how..
Blogger.com allows posting over email using an address convention like: googleaccountname1."secretwords"@blogger.com (seel below)




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