Subscriptions
With our Subscriptions our readers (you) can follow the site at their own convenience. The problem with the Internet is that it is quite large, there’s quite a few websites and it’s near to impossible to visit your favorite website and see if anything is updated on them.
So, the little green men who build the Internet for us came up with a few ways to tackle that challenge.
RSS Feed
According to Wikipedia RSS “is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format”.
What you need is a Reader, this can a program running on your desktop or an online tool. Every article we post can be read by the RSS reader, when you open your reader, you can get all the latest news, from any site that uses RSS.
It really is quite fantastic.
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Newsletter
According to Wikipedia a Newsletter “is a regularly distributed publication generally about one main topic that is of interest to its subscribers”
That’s great, we will send the newsletter occasionally, not regularly. It will contain news about dates we set for volunteering, a sum up of our important blog posts and whatever we deem important enough to put in the newsletter.
If you don’t want to subscribe to RSS or follow us on Twitter but do want to stay in touch, the newsletter is ideal.
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According to Wikipedia Facebook is “a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.”
Wow, so now you know everything there is to know about Facebook, not quite. But, here is a more in depth (video) explanation.
Four Elements House has a “Fanpage” on Facebook, not a complete personal profile. On the page other Facebookers can leave comments, upload foto’s/video’s and find other FEH fans. Isn’t this fun?
You do need a Facebook account and all additions to the Fanpage will show up on your homepage.
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According to Wikipedia Twitter “is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets.”
So, that’s what we do, we post status updates and short messages on Twitter. You do need your own Twitter account if you want to Follow us. But, once you have one, you can tweet yourself, and we can in turn follow you, isn’t that fantastic.
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The App
There is an App available in the iPhone App Store and the Android Market.
Now you don’t need to visit the site, check your email, Facebook or whatever to stay tuned. Just download and install the free app and look up the info at any time.
Twitter is also represented in the App and we hope to have even more information and streams in the App in the year to come.
According to Wikipedia Email “is any method of creating, transmitting, or storing primarily text-based human communications with digital communications systems”.
Pffff.., I don’t know what that means. All I know is that when you subscribe to the Email thingy, all posts will be send via email directly to your mailbox. This is as easy as it gets. No need to go to the website, open the RSS Reader or wait for the Newsletter.
All you need to do is wait until it says “Inbox (1)”.
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So, choose your poison and stay in touch.
Regards, The Four Elements House Crew