So you have a blog and you are all giddy about writing your first blog post. Or perhaps you’ve mustered up some courage to comment on a colleague’s post. You finish up, hit send and WHAT the? What is that little mystery man showing by your name? Introducing the avatar.
An avatar is a little icon that helps identify your posts and comments on forums and blogs. Instead of creating a new avatar per each place you post, you can now create a globally recognized avatar, called a gravatar. To do this, you go to Gravatar.com and create a free account. From this account, you can change your image or your byline. It is all managed here, linking your account to your email address. As you change your gravatar or byline on your Gravatar.com account, it will change everywhere you have posted. It’s that easy.
So take 5 minutes and replace that mystery man with your stunning smile or a fun gravatar so readers get to know you.