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Would it make sense to make available to 90 Minds members a published summary of posts that have been made on Socialcast that they could then distribute to customers via newsletter? We could create the posts on WordPress and members could use RSS to in turn distribute via newsletter I am not thinking full posts but mostly a summary. Atively re-publish summaries of the best posts but leave out the answers and suggest that readers ""see your local 90 Minds consultant for more information"" I'm thinking of ways to provide more value to our members and have a 90 Minds brand.

I think a member should be responsible for doing the editing and posting and be assigned for a 4 week period based. Perhaps alphabetically by last name to keep it simple. More, I think the posts should be put on either 90minds.com or a new private blog that members use either the direct rss feed or chimfeedr. Super easy to consume it in your own rss to email campaign. chimpfeedr works with any solution like aweber, constant contact etc, its not exclusive to mailchimp

I don't mind editing along with a team - I just want to strike the right balance of providing info - but not enough that people can use the feed to self support themselves. Also don't want the feed to be a bait and switch where everything is ""call us for more information"". This should really be a full time project - I bet we can drive 4 to 6 posts a day based on content from Socialcast.

Maybe the happy medium is just to write a summary of daily chit chat and tack on a ""contact us"" form at the bottom without going into any elaborate plea that they must contact us, etc. For example we might have something like this on a daily basis: On Our Minds - 1-20-2011 - Job Ops provides inventory balancing instructions to partners for certain issues in version 4.4 where the inventory may not agree to the general ledger. - Sage announces pending release of an FRX to SMI tool to assist customers in converting their FRX statements. - The Minds discuss additional solutions for Windows 7 Paperless Office PDF Error Resolution Without any additional work we could have one summary page (as above) created daily which I think would probably feed to an RSS though I think we'd have to rethink how the content went to the RSS since typically it picks up titles when MailChimp imports. WordPress natively allow us to password protect posts -- we could link from the main post (summary above) to a password protected post that contains more information. The password could be provided by the 90 Minds member to their customer to read the full content. I'd want to be sure we had some way to specify a global password change and we did not have to go change passwords post by post when we wanted to update the access.

Maybe this dovetails into a previous suggestion of having a part-time or full-time 90 Minds go to person? I'm wondering what we could accomplish if we had the right- person working on behalf of 90 Minds non-stop. Marketing, administrative, call center / routing, third-party product investigations for individual members?

I don't think passwords would be practical. Just post it all to 90minds.com. If we get the occasional visitor, all the merrier,but not the primary focus. It would come from your companies newsletter with all your company branding and would land you at 90minds.com. I don't think anybody's client is going to change to another 90mindsmember (and we won't allow that). These are serious 'opt-in' mailings so they would be going only to real paying clients or people that consciously went to the members blog to sign up. Take a look at the left with what I just setup. I know @WayneSchulz has something similar (I think I stole the idea from him anyway :) ) http://www.clientsfirst-us.com/blog