Complex email notification on posts, pages, updates…

Hi all,

Here’s my dilemma: I maintain a “blog” which is essentially an educational site (http://emsbasics.com/), and run not only intermittent front-page blog posts, but also make more-or-less-weekly updates to a research library and its associated page (http://emsbasics.com/digital-research-library/about-the-drl/), and each week create a page which is then updated twice more DURING that week (http://emsbasics.com/welcome-to-scenarioville/scenarios/ — these are scenarios that “unfold” as they go). At the moment, there’s no great way to let people know when any of this content pops up, other than our FB page and such.

I would like to add an option for people to subscribe to an email notification list — something that’ll shoot people a message when any of the above is added (maybe not for each rolling update of individual scenarios, but certainly anything else). I would love a method that handled this automatically, but it would have to be fairly robust given the variety of content, and I doubt one exists. Nothing I can find (Feedburner, various plugins, etc) seem intended to do anything but notify on standard blog posts, not pages and updates and such.

I’m guessing that my best option will be a simple email subscription list that I can use to manually notify people of new material. That’d be fine as long as it’s streamlined — ideally I’d like something people can enter their email into, check off boxes on which type of content they’re interested in (there are different audiences here), and it’ll go right into a WordPress-organic system that I can easily broadcast from. Can’t seem to find anything like this, however.

If all else fails I can just generate a raw, non-WordPress mailing list on the backend, but that would be enough trouble that I’d probably not bother.

Does anyone know of something that’d fit this need?