This is a service announcement for users of the AOL Journals or AOL Pictures products.

If you are AOL Journals users, there have been several announcements of the AOL Journals permanent shutdown on October 31st. If you would like to continue blogging, AOL Journals has setup an agreement with Blogger.com to provide a smooth transition from AOL Journals. Go to this link: http://www.blogger.com/AolToBlogger to begin the process.

If you are an AOL Pictures users - On December 31, 2008, AOL will close the AOL Pictures online photo service. However, we have partnered with American Greetings® PhotoWorks® to enable continued access to your pictures. If you would like to continue using a pictures service, go to http://pictures.aol.com/ to begin process.

If you are a current yourminis startpage user and would like to continue reading your feeds, using your widgets, and explore some new content - come and try out myAOL as your new startpage experience.

Here is a quick tutorial on how to export your feeds data to myAOL from yourminis:

1) Go to http://www.yourminis.com/start
2) Click "Add Content" at the upper left hand side of the yourminis startpage.
3) Click "Export OPML" at the bottom of the menu and save the OPML file to your desktop.

This OPML file has all your feed subscriptions from yourminis. Follow these 3 steps to import them to myAOL:
1) Go to http://my.aol.com/page/favs
2) Click on "Import Feeds" in the lower left hand corner
3) Import the OPML file that you had saved to your desktop.

Now you can continue reading the same feeds as you had on yourminis on myAOL today.

Did you know that you can also add all your favorite yourminis widgets to myAOL also? If you find a minis widget that you like, click on the "Copy Me" button (usually located in the upper right hand corner) and look for the myAOL icon to add it to your myAOL page.

Be sure to sign up for a free account so you don't lose any of your new information.

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