11.29.07
Nourish + Basecamp Mashup
by Matt Browne
We are big fans of 37 Signals’ products, specifically Basecamp. The most common request we get from our clients using Basecamp is that they never know when to-do list items are complete. Enter Nourish.
If you have followed our blog, you know we recently launched an RSS to email service called Nourish. Because 37 Signals builds every product they have with RSS feeds, it makes Nourish a perfect vehicle to deliver updates for our clients automatically.
Here is how we have ‘mashed up’ Nourish + Basecamp to provide a better service for our clients who don’t regularly subscribe to RSS feeds. Follow these simple steps:
- Sign up for a free Nourish account.
- Set up a campaign called Basecamp Updates
- Grab the RSS feed from Basecamp
- Make a list of people who should get the updates
- Set the delivery for daily (you can do weekly or monthly)
Now our clients get updates daily with what items have been completed. No more emails asking, “Is this done yet?”. Can you digg it?
We hope you find the Nourish + Basecamp mashup useful. We are always interested in creative ways our clients use our products. If you are using Nourish to in a unique way, we’d love to hear about it. Submit your Nourish Mashup today!
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Garry Robinson 20 days later
Good O. Let me know when the custom template is complete. So far I like what I see and will probably bring the 5000 readers of my newsletter over to Norish soon. use the email address here http://www.gr-fx.com/images/garryemail.gif
Chris Abad 20 days later
Correct, Basecamp only provides an RSS feed for all activity. I don’t believe they have a feed for specific activity like only messages, or only todo items. Basically, this is the content you see on the “overview” tab (for a specific project) or the “dashboard” tab (for your whole account).
However, that feed includes a log of both to-dos created, as well as to-dos completed. If you’re looking at the raw feed, it says “todo added” or “todo completed.” Looking at our custom template though, I think we need to make a change so it indicates that accordingly.
Garry Robinson 20 days later
You disussed seeing which todo items have been completed. As far as I can see, you can only retrieve content for the basecamp project as a whole which can be a jumble of many messages and comments, file uploades and new todo items. Another problem is that you need to use a username and password which means that you need to be careful about private items. But it does work, I set it up quite quickly.
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