I’ve talked about some easy autoresponders before. Now I’ve found a service called FeedCycle that will publish serialized RSS feeds.

This is good. I’ve not tried it yet though. A TechCrunch article explains:

If you are telling a multi-part story, or communicating a segmented message over time, you should give FeedCycle a look. Publishers can use FeedCycle to create publication schedules and intervals; all subscribers then start by receiving the first item in a feed regardless of when they subscribe and future items are delivered at the intervals determined by the publisher. Text, audio and video podcasts can all be scheduled and delivered with FeedCycle.

This is another way to open the door to a follow-up series, Bible study series, or even story-telling series leading up to a climax decision point.

If you sign up for podcasts in iTunes or subscribe to a RSS feed in a reader, you’ve probably already experienced this potential downside of starting a new subscription: you get all the old items along with the new ones. That isn’t always bad, but if it’s a series you may not want that to happen. This service seems to help take away that potential problem.

Dream a little. How could you use a podcast, vodcast, or text blog series for a ministry application? Now you can control the release of each episode via email and RSS.