How to Send Newsletter Articles to Your Friends

Someone asked this question today so I thought I would reply here where everyone could read the answers. The question is: "I want to forward an article from this newsletter to a friend of mine by email. How do I do that?"

In fact, there are several possible answers, depending upon where you read the newsletter.

If you are reading an article online at this newsletter's web site at http://www.eogn.com:

1. At the end of every article, you will notice a small green icon followed by the words "ShareThis."
   Click on the icon or on the words "ShareThis." You will be able to share the article with others by email, FaceBook, Twitter, Google Buzz, MySpace, Digg, AIM Share, or you can repost the article to Blogger, Windows Live, or any of a number of other online services.
2. Another method is to use the normal copy-and-paste commands built into the Windows and Macintosh operating systems. First, display the full article in your web browser. Click at the top of the article, hold the mouse button down, and drag the mouse to the bottom of the article. Then click on EDIT and then on COPY. Next, change to your normal email program, compose a message to your friend, move the mouse to inside the text area of the message, click on EDIT (at the top of the screen) and then click on PASTE. That will paste the entire article into the message to be sent to your friend.

If you are reading the Standard Edition newsletter in an email message that is sent to you every day, click on the "Email to a friend" link shown below every article in the email message.

If you are reading this newsletter in an RSS newsreader, use the newsreader's commands to forward articles.

Finally, don't forget that you can also send a link (the URL, or web address) to a friend. I am not sure if this works in all web browsers, but it does work in the three or four browsers that I tried. When looking at ANY web page, look at the top of the browser, click on FILE, and the click on "Mail Link to This Page" or "Email Page Location" or whatever it says. The exact words will vary from one web browser to another. Select that and then your email program will appear and the web address (URL) of the page you have been viewing will automatically be inserted into the body text of the email message. You will need to enter your friend's email address. Click on SEND. Your friend will receive an email message from you that displays just the link. When he or she clicks on that link,  a web browser will launch and the web page you specified will be displayed in that browser.

In short, you have multiple methods of sharing articles in this newsletter with your friends. Please feel free to do so!