In the bottom right corner of MSNBC's website are numerous links to various social media outlets including facebook and twitter.
It also has an alert and subscription feature that you can set up to have sent via mobile device or the old fashioned way (through a newsletter). Under this section, you can manually select which alerts you want. It is categorized by breaking news, mnbc.com, tv shows, and TODAY (which I assume is the morning talk show on its parent network, NBC). This is nice since it doesn't require you receive alerts about everything, but, instead can receive an alert from Rachel Maddow and the business section of msnbc.com. As with news features, you can also have different blogs alerts sent to your phone, but you have to register with the website to do this.
In addition to this, it also has a RSS feed and a podcasts feed which both require subscriptions as well. The podcasts are available on both itunes and zune so it doesn't limit itself to just itunes, which is interesting. These two can be found on separate links on the main page of the website in the bottom right corner, but they can also be found within the link for interactive news tools which is located in the same area of the main page.
Within the news tools link, msnbc has created apps, widgets, and a central dispatch that sends out mobile alerts, email newsletters, and online instant messages. Furthermore, the company has an online arcade that is made up exclusively of news-infused games, including the first ever cinematic crowd playing news game.
So not only does msnbc have the obligigatory links to facebook, twitter, RSS, and podcasts, it has also created numerous ways to have news alerts sent to a person and has even created arcade games inorder to make news reading fun and interesting.
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