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Very cool! Thank you for sharing this, Mary.

It was great to see everyone in DC this week!

During the discussion of LAL on Tuesday I mentioned that we use an online tool to let teachers/parents/whoever subscribe themselves to our LAL announcements and several people asked me to share the details on that.

Here is how I do it:

�        I maintain a blog (mine happens to be on blogger, but any blog platform would work) where I publish announcements about LAL (and other things). The LAL announcements all have a �Letters About Literature� label (some blog platforms call them tags or topics) attached. (See http://nhbookcenter.blogspot.com/2016/04/congratulations-to-2016-nh-lal-semi.html for an example)

�        I have an account set up with Feedblitz (http://www.feedblitz.com/features/) through which I have set up a feed/newsletter of the posts to my blog that have the �LAL� label on them. This costs me $9.95 per month based on the fact that I have between 100 &499 email subscribers in total. There is also a cheaper  annual pricing option which I plan to switch to (that wasn�t available last time I went to the main feedblitz page)  I use the account for other project feeds as well, but the price is based on active email addresses in my list and how many different feeds I have set up doesn�t matter. Feedblitz has lots of other functionality I don�t use, including (I think) a way you can generate your messages without having a blog they come from.

�        On my LAL web page (http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/bookcenter/programs/letters.html) I have a subscription box where folks can sign up to get the latest LAL news. The subscription page you get to if you click the �subscribe� link was created through Feedblitz (I added the question about the library, you don�t have to have any questions if you don�t want them) and the archive of posts (a link from the bottom of the subscription page) is automatically created by feedblitz.

�        I can see all my feed activity by logging into my Feedblitz account and I have it set so that whenever someone adds or deletes their address I get an email message about it. What you get notified about when is pretty customizable as I recall. I set it up years ago and haven�t messed with it since.

�        I include info about signing up for the �latest NH LAL news� in most of my LAL communications (as I did in the blog post linked above)

I hope this is useful to some of you and would be happy to answer any follow-up questions.

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Mary A. Russell, Director
Center for the Book at the NH State Library
20 Park Street Concord NH 03301-6314
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http://nhbookcenter.org

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