GRavatar – Globally Recognized Avatars
Ever wonder how people had their picture displayed in blogs? Well that little picture is called a your Gravatar.
Your Gravatar 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. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums from any site without you having to do a thing.
Well you do have submit your email address and set it up... (setup time, about 10 secs and two emails).
The 7 Characteristics of Good Domain Names
Looking to start a website or trying to figure out what domain to use? Here is a great article from by Daniel Scocco at Daily Blog Tips to help you sort the what and why of choosing a good domain name.
Website Updates Important
Fresh material added regularly to your site keeps visitors coming back to see what's new. Some sites are constantly updated by the natural activity of the business, such as news, real estate, classified ads or online catalogs. However every site should routinely feature creative new content, text, graphics or images, to build the traffic of repeat visitors.
Conscientious Updates
Updating your status with a general statement may seem harmless to you, but others may read it in a different light. Remember when you post you have hundreds of friends and acquaintances in Facebook from all kinds of backgrounds, with different jobs, beliefs, personalities, etc. The simplest, honest comment could be offensive to some of your Facebook friends without you realizing it.
It's impossible to consider every one of your friends when updating/commenting publicly but you must mindful of their interpretation of your statement or you may loss them as a friend.
Posting on Walls is not Private
As much as you may think everyone wants to know your most intimate secrets, others may not share the same inclination. Family and friends might not take it too kindly when you post what they did last night at your house party, or any other stuff which are understood to be kept between your closest friends.
The fact is that most of their Facebook friends will hear about it in such a public platform. The walls indeed have ears, especially so for the Facebook Wall. Best to keep these conversations behind closed doors in Facebook Messaging.
Shortcut keys for the PC
Here is a good article about shortcut keys for the PC. You might remember some of these old but reliable shortcuts but I'll bet there are few new one in there for even the advanced user.
Be Personal with Personal News
For many of you this will seem to be simple common sense but recently I had to remind someone of this important social manner. If you need to inform your friends or your family about some important or personal news (e.g. death in the family), don’t declare it out in the public domain. This is especially important when this news may be confrontational or my upset the receiving party. Airing personal business on a public, social network is not appreciated by friends and may turn others against you too as they how you conduct yourself.
Personal or confrontational news should be delivered face to face or at the very least via the phone live with the person. Do not use Facebook, Buzz, Twitter, email, phone SMS text messages or voice mail for these important and delicate matters.
Facebook Facts
Great Video on why Facebook is so important to your business.
The World Is Obsessed With Facebook from Alex Trimpe on Vimeo.
Some web facts
Ever wonder the who and how of others usage of the web? The folks at WebHostingBuzz have tried to tackle these simple but huge questions and have summarized the results into this great info graphic. Enjoy...
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