Many readers of this blog have the good taste to also be subscribers to my newsletter, Things We Learned This Week (TWLTW). A few of that elite group have complained that TWLTW hasn’t been turning up in their inboxes on Sunday as they’ve come to expect.
I don’t like to disappoint, but couldn’t fathom why, all of a sudden, my newsletter wasn’t getting through to some people. Thankfully, I think I’ve found the problem: GMail.
Thanks, Google.
As Ryan Holiday points out, here’s what to do if a newsletter isn’t getting through to your ‘Primary’ tab:
Easiest option
- Find an issue of TWLTW. You may need to check your ‘Promotions’ tab or the Spam folder.
- Drag that email over into your ‘Primary’ tab.
- Click ‘yes’ when GMail asks if you’d like to make this change permanent.
This should work for 90% of people.
Belt and braces approach
- Enter ‘Settings’ within GMail
- Choose ‘Filter’ tab
- Click ‘Create a new filter’ and enter [email protected]
- Click ‘Create filter with this term’ and then select ‘Never send it to Spam’
- Click ‘Create filter’
Still not working? I suggest switching email provider. 😉
If you’re not yet one of the enlightened people who subscribe to my weekly newsletter yet then you can rectify that
right now by
clicking here.
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After some recent prompting by Aral Balkan I’ve made my Things We Learned This Week newsletter easier to sign up to. It goes out every Sunday morning – wherever you are in the world.
Sign up: http://newsletter.dougbelshaw.com
You’ll notice I’ve also included a link to sponsor a month’s worth of newsletters by clicking on the ribbon to the top-right. This is a recent innovation and I’m very grateful to Ian Nairn of C-Learning for sponsoring the month of May:
C-Learning is a Cloud Learning Services company which provides schools with a range of services and solutions to help teachers and students make the most of technology hosted in the cloud. With an overwhelming choice we bring you a range of tried and tested services already being used by many schools, teachers, students and parents to deliver improved communication and collaboration to support teaching and learning in school, on the move and at home.
PS I used GitHub Pages to create these sign-up pages, something I’ve blogged about before.
A lot has changed in both my life and the world at large since January 3rd, 2010, the date when I hit publish on a post marking the first in a series entitled Things I Learned This Week. The structure of the weekly roundup, however, has remained similar with its rationale pretty straightforward: I get a chance each week to read and review the links I’ve collected and curate something of interest to others. Everyone wins.
Originally, I used this blog to post the weekly roundup and diligently produced TILTW for the whole of 2010 before declaring a hiatus. When I resurrected TILTW in April 2012 it was in the form of an email newsletter (which has now grown to a subscriber base just shy of 400).
I’ve linked to all 100 TILTWs below for the sake of posterity, if nothing else. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank those who have have expressed their pleasure at the newsletter either by hitting reply when the email lands in their inbox, or via various social media channels. That always makes me smile! 🙂
If you haven’t yet signed up for TILTW you can do so below. The newsletter arrives in your inbox every Sunday morning (UK time).
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List of all TILTWs
Originally, I thought that other people might like to create their own Things I Learned This Week. I’m not precious about the name and would welcome more curated content! Feel free to riff on the idea. 🙂
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