Promise of Fun

While I have pretty obviously used this blog to vent my frustrations, I don’t know that I’ve yet to hold up my promise to include all the fun I’m having. So, thought I’d add a little fun I found last night. This may be old news to most of you, so pardon my ability to be easily amused while being behind on the latest and greatest at the same time!

This semester I decided to add the same picture to all my profiles; moodle, skype, it is even the same as my FaceBook picture. Well, in all our research, I came across information about Gravatars. Honestly, I can’t remember if this was part of our resource material, just a link from WordPress, or how exactly I came across the information, but no matter which way, I just found it facinating.  Just like Elaine explained in our Connections Lecture, it is so important, especially in the web design industry, to have your name out there on the blogs. Having a gravatar follow you around the web is another great way to put your name and now face/image out there and give the online community some insight to your personality. As it is well said on Squidoo, “The main reason for wanting a gravatar is to increase brand awareness – a picture of you or your logo is going to be seen and, hopefully, remembered by everyone who reads your comments on Gravatar-enabled blogs.”

I also found ProBlogger’s post about gravatars very helpful. I appreciated the way he goes into detail about how your gravatar can effect the way your comment on a blog is perceived. This also looks like a helpful blog about blogging  and I plan to spend some time looking around when I get the chance.

Now back to my fun…I’ve always really wanted to create one of the cartoon-ish looking gravatar’s. So begins my little fun last night! After some aimless searching, I found FaceYourManga.com It is a free service to create a Mangatar, as their called. There may be another place to create these and possible a better way to do so, however I was already spending some valuable time on something not necessary. I’d love to hear what you think and also if you like this sort of aspect about the online communities. By the way, it’s not that I didn’t like my actual photo gravatar. In fact, I’m not completely decided what I’ll be using as my permanent one, however here’s my wee-bit of fun and my new gravatar for now:

A little fun amid the studying maddness...

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