{"id":1198,"date":"2009-06-19T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2009-06-19T00:48:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T04:48:32","slug":"follow-once-upon-a-geek-and-show-your-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/19\/follow-once-upon-a-geek-and-show-your-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow ONCE UPON A GEEK and show your support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Once Upon a Geek\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/logo_165.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>A big THANK YOU to the readers of this blog!\u00a0 I sincerely appreciate that you take time out of your day to read my ramblings. \u00a0 I want to make it convenient for you to keep up with ONCE UPON A GEEK.\u00a0 Therefore, I&#8217;ve recently added a couple more ways to get the posts. \u00a0 Even if you already have a reliable way of getting ONCE UPON A GEEK content, by choosing to &#8220;Follow&#8221; the blog it helps show your support and spread the word. Your support is always appreciated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Identify yourself as a &#8220;Follower&#8221; on the site<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the <a title=\"Once Upon a Geek.com\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/\">ONCE UPON A GEEK<\/a> site, look in the right-hand sidebar towards the bottom and you&#8217;ll see an option to &#8220;Follow&#8221; with Google Friend Connect.\u00a0 You may use a pre-existing account from Google, Yahoo, AIM, or OpenID to &#8220;Follow&#8221;.\u00a0 By choosing to &#8220;Follow&#8221;, it will list you amongst the followers of ONCE UPON A GEEK.\u00a0 If you are a Google user, it will also allow you to read ONCE UPON A GEEK content in Blogger under &#8220;Blogs I&#8217;m Following&#8221;.\u00a0 If you have previously chosen to &#8220;Follow&#8221; ONCE UPON A GEEK in Blogger (as I know some of you have), I ask that you please click &#8220;Follow&#8221; on the site.\u00a0 For some reason, it won&#8217;t display people that have already chosen to follow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I would recommend the &#8220;Follow&#8221; feature to anyone wishing to show their support of the site, or to anyone who keeps up with blogs through Blogger (a really handy way to keep up with several different blogs).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Follow on Facebook using NetworkedBlogs<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you are a frequent Facebook user, you can follow ONCE UPON A GEEK with the <a title=\"Once Upon a Geek on NetworkedBlogs\" href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/blognetworks\/blog\/once_upon_a_geek\/\">NetworkedBlogs application<\/a>.\u00a0 By choosing to &#8220;Follow&#8221; this way, ONCE UPON A GEEK topics will be posted to your Facebook &#8220;Home&#8221; page as they are published.\u00a0 <a title=\"Once Upon a Geek on NetworkedBlogs\" href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/blognetworks\/blog\/once_upon_a_geek\/\">Click here to check out the NetworkedBlogs application<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I would recommend the NetworkedBlogs feature to anyone that is a <em>frequent <\/em>Facebook user, or to anyone who has a Facebook account and wishes to show their support of the site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Subscribe on FriendFeed<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My <a title=\"Once Upon a Geek on FriendFeed\" href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/onceuponageek\">FriendFeed account<\/a> collects the posts from ONCE UPON A GEEK, my Twitter account, and posts from FIRESTORM FAN.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a handy way to keep up with several people&#8217;s social media all in one place. To check out my FriendFeed, please <a title=\"Once Upon a Geek on FriendFeed\" href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/onceuponageek\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">LiveJournal<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;re a LiveJournal user, you can keep up with ONCE UPON A GEEK there.\u00a0 All posts to the blog are cross-posted to the <a title=\"Once Upon a Geek on LiveJournal\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.livejournal.com\/\">ONCE UPON A GEEK LiveJournal page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">MySpace<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;re a <a title=\"Irredeemable Shag on MySpace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/onceuponageek\">MySpace<\/a> user, you can keep up with ONCE UPON A GEEK by subscribing to my blog posts.\u00a0 Visit my profile page by <a title=\"Irredeemable Shag on MySpace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/onceuponageek\">clicking here<\/a> and then choose to &#8220;Subscribe to This Blog&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">RSS<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As always, you can also subscribe directly to the <a title=\"Once Upon a Geek RSS Feed\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/feed\/\">RSS feed<\/a>.\u00a0 This option provides you with the most flexibility as there are numerous ways to get RSS feeds.\u00a0 <a title=\"Once Upon a Geek RSS Feed\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/feed\/\">Click here for the ONCE UPON A GEEK RSS feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I hope at least one of these ways provides you with a convenient way to get this content.\u00a0 Thanks for reading and thank you for your 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