Push technology - can it work with Adult Ed short- course learners?

Well, I've thought about this quite a bit and so far my impression is "no, not easily".  There are a number of reasons for this:

1. I cannot include RSS feeds into my course pages on our VLE. There is some admin hitch that I do not know how to get round, or whether it's worthwhile trying to get help on it.
2. My learners on the whole are not Twitter users.
3. I don't spend long enough with learners to get them used to the idea of a regular broadcast - they would not expect it and IT confidence may not be at a level for them to subscribe comfortably.
4. I'm not technically supposed to know or store their mobile numbers so a regular podcast to smartphones (if they have them) is tricky to organise.

That said, I have experienced a distance learning Moodle-based course where the weekly podcast was pretty useful to remind me of the focus topic and what needed doing.  So I know it can be good.

How could I make use of push technology then, in light of this?
(to be continued....)

Well, in the meantime I've set up a few Pinterest boards, including a secret one for jobseekers' class.  I will invite them to view it, and if they want to, follow it so that if I post other useful stuff in future they can see it. Also considering a Rebelmouse page for sharing with tutor colleagues, to include twitter feeds from edtech bloggers, Pinterest posts, blog posts by me and other stuff.  Shared directly or via LinkedIn group.