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Hey I have a question.  I want to put a news/newsletter area on my site. Basically I want headlines(news), archives,  RSS, newsletter, and twitter.  Does expression engine have something that does all that???  I wanted to have automated news on my site and every time it is posted it will go to all of the above(I’m pulling the news from my home page).  A friend said I should use RSS and then use the twitter to resend out http://twitterfeed.com/  Is there a module for this in EE?

Also, what is http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/  is this some type of twitter API???

anybody???

What I did was follow the EE Screencasts by Ryan Irelan. http://eescreencasts.com/ It doesn’t cover the newsletter or Twitter though.

As far as the newsletter, I recommend Constant Contact or a third party that will help you stay compliant with anti-spam regulations. It’s really helped us with keeping the subscription list well-managed as well as offers a lot of tracking features for the items in your newsletters.

Yesterday, I created a news sitemap for use with Google news. I created a new XML template in my site directory called sitemap-news. Then I created the code to automatically populate with the news articles for the feed:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset >
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news_articles" status="Press" year="%Y;"}
<url>
  <loc>{title_permalink="news_articles/press"}</loc>
  <news:news>
     <news:publication_date>{entry_date format="{DATE_ATOM}"}</news:publication_date>
     <news:keywords>Headlines, Local, Home and Garden, Pets, Pet Rescue, Savannah, Georgia, Non-profit</news:keywords>         
  </news:news>
</url>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</urlset>

From my readings, Google really only wants to see news items from the last three days. I haven’t played with this enough to figure out how to do that exactly, but since we only do two news items a month (three at the most), this is pretty sufficient for now.

Also, I was able to set up TwitterFeed just fine using the RSS feed I created from the EE Screencasts.

Is there a way to use EE RSS module, Twitterfeed.com, and google groups so that I can have the newsletter, rss, and twitter?