What’s a Gravatar anyway?

Posted by Michelle Harrington on Feb 22nd, 2009 home title

If you’ve started to use any of the social media sites online, you’ll notice that you can upload an image for your “avatar” so others can see a thumbnail of you anytime you post a review, a blog article, comment, tweet or favorite. With the increasing popularity of Social Media, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc., I’ve found myself creating individual profiles and adding my image (avatar) quite a few different times.

A Gravatar is a globally recognized Avatar, an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name whenever you post a comment, favorite, review, etc… The neat thing about the Gravatar is that you upload your image once an

d it will appear across all of the gravatar-enabled sites. If you decide you want to change your photo, you can do it within your gravatar account and it will update on all gravatar-enabled sites.

Creating a Gravatar is free and you can upload your avatar image, which could also be your company’s logo if you don’t want to use a photo of yourself. Within your account on Gravatar.com you can crop and/or size the image and then associate it with an email address.

For instance, you may want to use your photo for your personal email address and for your business email address use your company logo or an image of your product as your image/avatar to help with your branding efforts.

For more information, or to create your Gravatar, visit the Gravatar website here…

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Author | Michelle Harrington of Emagine Web Marketing
Michelle is a web development and internet marketing professional dedicated to helping small businesses in Hawaii achieve success online. Michelle provides free advice, tips and how to's on the Small Business Internet Marketing Blog.

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Megan Aho says:

February 26, 2009 at 3:33 pm

Aloha!
Thanks for the gravatar article: it reminded me to get more organized and finally upload some images and associate some email addresses (I had created my gravatar account a long time ago and simply forgotten about it!)
Thanks again, I enjoy your blog.
Shelah Abubo says:

April 16, 2009 at 10:37 am

Aloha Michelle!

Thank you for sharing your insight on Gravatar… what a neat way to get ‘out there’! If it wasn’t for your blog article I would never of known about this:)
It is SO important to take advantage of all of the media marketing sites on-line, you have inspired me!

Shelah

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