{"id":464,"date":"2009-02-12T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2009-02-12T00:23:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T05:23:37","slug":"once-upon-a-geek-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/12\/once-upon-a-geek-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Geek on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can now find <a title=\"Once Upon a Geek on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/onceuponageek\" class=\"broken_link\">ONCE UPON A GEEK on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clearly I was brainwashed this week by listening to all those presentations about social networking.\u00a0 If you asked me a week ago, I would have said I thought Twitter was pointless.\u00a0 After hearing a presentation on how to use Twitter productively, I&#8217;m willing to give it a try.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What helped to finally convince me was the following list.\u00a0 Here are the Five Stages of Twitter Acceptance:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rohitbhargava.typepad.com\/weblog\/2008\/12\/the-5-stages-of.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"The Five Stages of Twitter Acceptance\" src=\"http:\/\/rohitbhargava.typepad.com\/weblog\/images\/2008\/12\/17\/imb_5stagesoftwitter_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was SO living in #1 until a few days ago.\u00a0 Now I&#8217;m going to make my best effort to jump right to #5.\u00a0 In keeping with the spirit of this list, I&#8217;ll do my best to ensure my Twitter posts (a.k.a. tweets) contain useful information or are truly microblogs.\u00a0 Any tweets I write will not simply be a reproduction of what I post here; it will be new material.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you are interested, you may &#8220;follow&#8221; me on <a title=\"Once Upon a Geek on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/onceuponageek\" class=\"broken_link\">Twitter<\/a> or read my tweets in the right-hand sidebar here on ONCE UPON A GEEK.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve installed a widget that displays my five most recent tweets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you already use Twitter, please feel free to drop me a note there.\u00a0 If not, it may be worth checking out this up-and-coming service.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-464\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/12\/once-upon-a-geek-on-twitter\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-464\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/12\/once-upon-a-geek-on-twitter\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/12\/once-upon-a-geek-on-twitter\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/12\/once-upon-a-geek-on-twitter\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-464\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/12\/once-upon-a-geek-on-twitter\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can now find ONCE UPON A GEEK on Twitter. 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More of an administrative post today.\u00a0 I was hoping to get some feedback from you readers about a change I've recently made to the blog. If you look in the right-hand sidebar I've added two Twitter feeds, one for comic books and one for Doctor Who (both popular\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4853,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/14\/where-has-shag-been\/","url_meta":{"origin":464,"position":1},"title":"Where The Heck Has Shag Been?!?!","date":"November 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As you read this, you're probably thinking, \"ONCE UPON A GEEK? I remember that old site. Hasn't it been dead for months?\"\u00a0 That's pretty much true, but I'm back! From 2008 through 2010, ONCE UPON A GEEK featured a new post every weekday.\u00a0 Sure I missed a few days here\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;personal&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1198,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/19\/follow-once-upon-a-geek-and-show-your-support\/","url_meta":{"origin":464,"position":2},"title":"Follow ONCE UPON A GEEK and show your support","date":"June 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"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've recently added a couple more ways\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;links\/websites&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4979,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/19\/nerd-lunch-vs-geek-lunch\/","url_meta":{"origin":464,"position":3},"title":"Nerd Lunch Crashed Our Geek Lunch!","date":"May 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"At some point in college, it's expected you'll crash at least one stranger's kegger.\u00a0 However, as an adult crashing a fellow geek's lunch is a whole other matter! There I was enjoying my monthly \"Geek Lunch\" with the beautiful ladies from Girls-Gone-Geek, when suddenly this giant nerd barges his way\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Nerd Lunch versus Geek Lunch","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/nerdlunch_geeklunch.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2424,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/09\/girls-gone-geek\/","url_meta":{"origin":464,"position":4},"title":"Girls Gone Geek &#8211; A new girl-centric blog you should be reading","date":"December 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"You should be reading Girls Gone Geek, a new blog that bills itself as \"Cheeky, Geeky, and Anatomically Correct\".\u00a0 A couple friends of mine, Vanessa G. and E. Peterman have put their brilliant and geeky minds together to create this new blog.\u00a0 Their aim is to provide geek commentary, from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/girlsgonegeek.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/wonder_woman_by_jim_lee3.jpg?w=350&h=200&crop=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":662,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/18\/and-in-other-idiotic-news-sci-fi-channel-is-changing-their-name-to-syfy\/","url_meta":{"origin":464,"position":5},"title":"And in Other Idiotic News&#8230; Sci-Fi Channel is changing their name to Syfy","date":"March 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Sci-Fi Channel is changing their name to \"Syfy\" on July 7.\u00a0 Yeah, I know.\u00a0 WTF?!?! 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