Ever wonder why avatars or icons show up on some blogs but not on others? If yours doesn’t show up,having a Gravatar can help.
A Gravatar is a free globally recognized avatar, which is an 80×80-pixel icon that travels with you and appears beside your name when you comment on Gravatar-enabled blogs. (Movable Type, Word Press, Blogger and Live Journal are examples of Gravatar-enabled blog platforms.) Each Gravatar is keyed to an e-mail address, so you can have as many as you want. To make a particular Gravatar image show up when you make a comment on a blog, just enter the e-mail address associated to that image when you make a comment. Gravatars are more flexible than regular avatars, because you can have more than one. If you have multiple blogs, all you need is a different e-mail address for each and you can have as many Gravatars as you need.
Gravatars are linked to your email address, so it’s important to add any additional email addresses you use for blog commenting to your profile. There is no need to create more than one profile though – multiple addresses can be linked to one Gravatar account. If you choose to operate under a bit of a “split personality” system online or have other reasons for ensuring everything isn’t linked, you can upload different images and link them to different email addresses within a single Gravatar profile. If you want different images and different email addresses for say business and social uses this is really convenient. While there is nothing stopping you from signing up for separate Gravatar accounts for each email address, the power and simplicity of the Gravatar system should solve the requirements of most with just one account. Gravatars can even be rated G, PG, R or X, and sites will either show or not show your Gravatar depending on your self rating.
Quite simply, having a gravatar next to your posts and comments is a big part of personal branding. In this Web2.0 world of social media, and online networking, it’s important for people to know who you are and what you stand for – your brand values so to speak. Besides, people respond better to faces than to faceless people. It’s the same concept as any internet dating site, where profiles with photos get a lot more response than the faceless masses.
Just Get One. It’s Simple.
Getting a Gravatar is simple, and equally important, it’s free. Simply visit http://en.gravatar.com/ and click the “Get your Gravatar today” link, follow the prompts including uploading your photo and confirming your email address.
Simple as that.
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What is a Gravatar
Ever wonder why avatars or icons show up on some blogs but not on others? If yours doesn’t show up,having a Gravatar can help.
A Gravatar is a free globally recognized avatar, which is an 80×80-pixel icon that travels with you and appears beside your name when you comment on Gravatar-enabled blogs. (Movable Type, Word Press, Blogger and Live Journal are examples of Gravatar-enabled blog platforms.) Each Gravatar is keyed to an e-mail address, so you can have as many as you want. To make a particular Gravatar image show up when you make a comment on a blog, just enter the e-mail address associated to that image when you make a comment. Gravatars are more flexible than regular avatars, because you can have more than one. If you have multiple blogs, all you need is a different e-mail address for each and you can have as many Gravatars as you need.
Gravatars are linked to your email address, so it’s important to add any additional email addresses you use for blog commenting to your profile. There is no need to create more than one profile though – multiple addresses can be linked to one Gravatar account. If you choose to operate under a bit of a “split personality” system online or have other reasons for ensuring everything isn’t linked, you can upload different images and link them to different email addresses within a single Gravatar profile. If you want different images and different email addresses for say business and social uses this is really convenient. While there is nothing stopping you from signing up for separate Gravatar accounts for each email address, the power and simplicity of the Gravatar system should solve the requirements of most with just one account. Gravatars can even be rated G, PG, R or X, and sites will either show or not show your Gravatar depending on your self rating.
Quite simply, having a gravatar next to your posts and comments is a big part of personal branding. In this Web2.0 world of social media, and online networking, it’s important for people to know who you are and what you stand for – your brand values so to speak. Besides, people respond better to faces than to faceless people. It’s the same concept as any internet dating site, where profiles with photos get a lot more response than the faceless masses.
Just Get One. It’s Simple.
Getting a Gravatar is simple, and equally important, it’s free. Simply visit http://en.gravatar.com/ and click the “Get your Gravatar today” link, follow the prompts including uploading your photo and confirming your email address.
Simple as that.
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