Today brought a new tool for Facebook page administrators as well as just ordinary users. Nutshell Mail is a service which allows you to offer email based “newsletters” to your fans. The way it works is simple – Nutshell emails your a HTML formatted “digest” of your Facebook activity.
Nutshell allows you to configure numerous things in your newsletter subscription -
- Delivery times including separate day and night times, days and email types
- Updates that include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace
- Specific configuration of the types of updates from Facebook and other sites (which specific pages you want updates from, inbox, wall, threaded conversations, photo tags, etc
The output is what you’d expect from an HTML email message – it looks rather like Facebook. There are also links in the email message which let you reply to comments left on your page or even “reload” the data in the email to show you the latest (buttons marked in red below)
From a Facebook perspective, this is how Nutshell looks if you add the application to your own page. Basically, it is more or less an email sign up form.
Check out this free service from Nutshell Mail to offer a little something extra to your Facebook page fans who may not be checking your page or feed every day.