We recently launched our automatic RSS-to-email tool, and bloggers are really eating this up. Some of them are asking for the ability to include multiple RSS feeds into one campaign. Okay, we’re working on that. In the meantime, you can mash up your multiple RSS feeds into one master feed (and then do all kinds of insane things to it) by using Yahoo Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/).
Below is a quick video on how to use Yahoo Pipes to create a master feed, then feed it to MailChimp for email delivery.
What software is being used to record this demo (with the video of presenter & everything). It’s rad!
- Randy White
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Is there a way to format the Feeds of an email campaign built in Mailchimp? For example, i would like 3 feeds to show in my email campaign, one feed in the left column, one feed in the right column and one as the main content. Anyway of doing this?
Did you solve your problem with multiple feeds? I’m struggling with exact the same issue. Very interested to know if you solved the problem.
Still no solutions to this problem with dividing multiple feeds to multiple columns?
Ole, we launched a new merge tag that might help you:
http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-can-i-add-any-blog-post-to-a-regular-campaign
And at the end of this month, we’ll be updating that new merge tag to allow for more granular customization.
Sweet!
Thanks! I happen to find the URL you sent me just moments before you gave your reply to my post. Anyways; thanks!
When I do that, mailchimp only reads and emails the first entry in the yahoo pipes list. Do you encounter the same problem?
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I’m looking to do the same thing that David is (yeah, I know, this is an old post, but I can’t see how old the comment is). Has anyone figured out how to do something like this?
Do we still need to use Yahoo Pipes to import an mashup of rss feeds?
No, since posting that, we’ve created Chimpfeedr: http://chimpfeedr.com/
We’ve also released some features that let you include multiple feeds into one email:
http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/can-i-include-multiple-rss-feeds-in-one-rss-to-email-campaign/
and even insert RSS into a regular email campaign (no RSS-to-email campaign required)
http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-can-i-add-any-blog-post-to-a-regular-campaign