Advantages and Disadvantages of Having Your Own Photograph as Gravatar
Guest Post by Bashir Jutt.
Gravatar are the images that serve as your mask all over the Internet in general, and blogosphere to be more precise. However, while we see people paying a lot more attention to their Facebook profiles, they are quite careless towards Gravatar, which is equally (if not more) important than your social profiles. And while people will gladly put their own photographs at their FB page, they are often reluctant to use their own photographs in their Gravatar. Remember that the Gravatar will be accompanying everything you write on blogs including your posts, comments, or even guest posts, so you shouldn’t be taking it lightly if you are looking to make a mark in blogging community.
We can’t emphasize that using your own photograph is a must, because having your own image has its own advantages and disadvantages. Let’s have a look at the pros and cons to help you decide whether you should be using your own photograph or not.
Advantages
When you are using your own photograph in Gravatar, you will naturally be paying more attention to your writings, trying to be more grammatically and factually correct. Doing so will result in improved writing, as you will invest a little more time in researching and proofreading before you hit the publish, or submit button. Secondly, just like Social Networks, having your real photograph will make it easier for you to befriend with fellow bloggers, as people will be keener to communicate with someone with a real image instead of someone anonymous with a cartoon or blank image as their Gravatar. Coming back to the writing, while it wouldn’t make some poor writing appear good, but your comment or posts will be carrying a little more weight as compared to something coming from an anonymous user with no face. Lastly, having your own image will help you gain recognition and fame amongst your peers and you will end up making more friends at real life meet-ups and conferences.
Disadvantages
To start with, having your own photograph with everything you write will make you a little more conscious while writing and you might not be able to churn out posts like before, in short, you will be writing more quality stuff as compared to the quantity. At times, you might not be able to speak your heart out, since you will try to be more politically correct when posting with your real photograph, to make sure you are not infuriating people. Last but not the least, all the advantages of having your own photograph will turn into disadvantages if you aren’t using a good quality photograph with good background, since a fuzzy photograph will present you as someone who doesn’t take his/her cyber identity seriously, at all.
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Bashir is a full time blogger and an amateur photographer with a penchant for saving. That’s the reason he lists discount offers for Jupiter images promo code and photos.com promo codes at his website, that you can use to get some cool stock images from photos.com or Jupiter images, and perk up your Blog.
Read MoreAffiliate Summit West 2011 in Pictures #ASW11
So, I found out what was wrong (I guess). It seemed my installation of WP Unlimited was severely outdated (pay attention to those update release emails, people)! I updated it and low & behold, all of a sudden today I can create the album using NextGEN Gallery!
Without further ado since it’s been a whole month since Affiliate Summit West 2011, please enjoy my pictures from the show. As you may be able to tell, I took notes via taking photos of the slides during the Drew Eric Whitman keynote. I forgot my notebook 🙂
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Please leave comments letting me know if this was valuable to you… or just commenting on any of the photos! They can also be viewed on Flickr in my Affiliate Summit West 2011 Set. Remember that you don’t want to miss the fun and excitement of Affiliate Summit East 2011 in New York City, so register today!
Read MoreWe have a winner!
I’m very pleased to announce that Karen is the winner of the Holiday Alphabetography contest PsPrint sponsored over at PhotographyCorner.com. Karen is a Premier Member of the forums and has won a $200 Gift Certificate for any PsPrint products or services!
Way to go Karen! What a lovely submission!
Read More7. Give Stuff Away for Free
7. Give stuff away for free. (I don’t think this contradicts the previous point but maybe?) People love free. Offer a free version of your product, provide coupon codes, etc. Whenever we include a coupon code in a newsletter, there’s a big uptick in upgrades.
Over at 37 Signals, they have a great post today on 10 Ways to Get Ink. While we’re not giving something away outright for free, we are sponsoring another contest with PhotographyCorner.com. This time we’re providing some prizes for their 2007 Photograph of the Year Contest. I joined the forums over there myself last week when I got word we were sponsoring Contest Corner Challenge #43: Holiday Alphabetography. It’s a great little community over there, being a hobby photographer myself. Room for professionals and amateurs alike!
So go on over, join the forums, get to postin’, and enter to win!
Forget The Mitchell List: We’re sponsoring a CONTEST!
Why focus on the downward spiral of steroids in the MLB? With the success of our Brickfish contest hot on our heels, PsPrint is sponsoring a fun holiday contest through PhotographyCorner.com.
You ever notice that some objects kind of look like letters? Like the brim of a mug looks like an “O” or the top of that roof makes the letter “A”, or even a stick in the shape of the letter “Y.” Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to photograph these objects that look like letters, and put them together to create a holiday word (like peace, joy, Christmas, Jesus, lights, wreath, Hanukkah, festivus, etc).
More details, as well as entry details, can be found on the PhotographyCorner.com forums.
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