I like the forum subscription service.  It woudl be great to be able to link this to blog -posts as well.  In our organization, members post their own media releases and announcements on the site through the blog feautre.  However, they only get distributed to the mailing list once a month or so.  Being able to assure members their postings are distributed immediately would be a great addition to the value proposition.

I appreciate your request. For now, I use the third-party service, FeedBurner, to enable individuals to subscribe to my WA Blog. FeedBurner offers simple hyperlink text to a form for individuals to subscribe to your WA blog via email postings.

FeedBurner: www.feedburner.com

Example of my implementation: http://www.nifoundation.net/Default.aspx?pageId=124003

I'd like to see a function for members (or non-members for that matter) to subscribe to our blog, much like they can for our forums. We are using the blog to post news and other timely announcements. I'd like to have the blog send an email version of the blog post directly to all members.

I'd also like to see the functionality of the blog made more robust. I'd like it to have some basic dynamic navigation, so that it doesn't just display every article. We don't need anything as fancy as blogger, but somewhere in between the current bare bones version and something that can expand over time more effectively.

My community is not advanced enough to use RSS and I cannot expect members to check the site and further, the blog(s) daily.

The forums component has it right - subscribe and have a number of subscription options.

Please add this as soon as possible.  As is, the blog component is not practical for the community that want assurance that posts are reaching its members.

 Thx

Will Morrison

Does the feed burner necessitates an action from the subscriber ?

I understand that rss service works only for a public blog and 

not for the secured blog ; that is why the possibility to send the blog as an email version directly to some members would be welcome and would not necessite the creation of both the e-mail blast and the blog entry versions.

 thanks

This has been flagged as one of Top 50 features to develop in 2010.

As always, please don't hesitate to add any suggestions for this feature here. We'll let you know when we have a solution worked out and when we plan to release it.

Hopefully it will be in the 2011 roadmap. Our blogs are private so feedburner is not a workaround.

A subscription choice just like the forums would be great, would make the look and feel more consistent too.

This is a feature that I would like.  Our users/members are not sophisticated enough to subscribe to a different service like feedburner.  I would suggest a "subscribe to this blog" button available on the blog functional page and widget.  Then if a logged in member clicks the button, they are subscribed.  If they are not a member, they can provide info to become a new contact.

That would work well for us.

Keep up the great work Apricots!
Dennis