How to make an easy mailing list for a facebook-centric artist?

May 6, 2019 6:55 AM

I used to employ the RSS-to-email option to give people an easy way to tag tumblr/wordpress posts and convert them into mailings without entering the Mailchimp interface. This doesn't work for people who are facebook or instagram-centric. I have yet to check out Email Beamer and Tinyletter, but I'm wondering if there's any way to more seamlessly integrate a mailing list with facebook somehow, such that post content can be ingested and distributed via email.
posted by Jack Karaoke to Technology (2 answers total)

Facebook are openly hostile to RSS or any kind of open access to 'their' data so I think you need to approach this from a different direction.
Put all your posts on a standard blog platform like WordPress and then find some plug-ins that will copy every post to Facebook, Tumblr, Mailchimp etc.
You don't have to actually promote the blog but just use it to originate all the content.
posted by Lanark at 11:37 AM on May 7, 2019 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: @lanark, thank you! This is a clever inversion.
posted by Jack Karaoke at 11:44 AM on May 7, 2019