{"id":14268,"date":"2010-02-09T07:40:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T07:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mysocialmediasolution.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2010-02-09T07:40:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T07:40:50","slug":"dont-be-anonymous-at-social-media-sites-use-a-gravatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/dont-be-anonymous-at-social-media-sites-use-a-gravatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t be anonymous at social media sites&#8211;use a gravatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/gravatarillustration.jpg\"><\/a>By Joan Stewart<\/p>\n<p>When you go to a blog, call up a post and see a comment that&#8217;s accompanied by an illustration of what appears to be a pawn on a chess board, or just a gray square where there&#8217;s supposed to be a photo, don&#8217;t assume that the person who posted the comment necessarily wants to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>It could be that the writer doesn&#8217;t know about the importance of gravatars.<\/p>\n<p>A globally recognized gravar is an image that follows you from site to site, appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog or a web forum.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the best part. You create your gravatar just once at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.gravatar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gravatar.com,<\/a> and it can appear hundreds of times, as you go from blog to blog, or from forum to forum.<\/p>\n<p>A gravatar is usually the first thing people see at social media sites. It makes it easier for them to know you if they can connect a face with a name. We recommend a gravatar that includes a tightly cropped profile shot, instead of an illustration that looks like a cartoon character.<\/p>\n<p>The photo at the top left gives you a good idea of what blog comments look like when they&#8217;re posted by people without gravatars. I took this screen shot from my own blog at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\" target=\"_blank\">PublicityHound.net.<\/a> That&#8217;s me in the photo at the top. As for the other two commenters, I hope they each claim their gravatar.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have one? If not, why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joan Stewart When you go to a blog, call up a post and see a comment that&#8217;s accompanied by an illustration of what appears to be a pawn on a chess board, or just a gray square where there&#8217;s supposed to be a photo, don&#8217;t assume that the person who posted the comment necessarily\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/dont-be-anonymous-at-social-media-sites-use-a-gravatar\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[693],"class_list":{"0":"post-14268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-media","7":"tag-gravatar","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}