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Get your Gravatar

December 25, 2008 By Joe Hage Leave a Comment

First things first: What’s a gravatar?

A gravatar is a Globally Recognized AVATAR. Because it is “globally recognized” it follows you around on the Web, and appears beside your name when you leave a comment on a blog (like this one!) to help identify your posts on Web forums.

Getting a gravatar is free at http://en.gravatar.com/.

Important to note: Gravatar will ask for your email address. Be sure to enter the email address that you’ll use most often when leaving comments. Think of that email address as the “password” to pull your gravatar into the post. (You can register multiple email addresses and upload multiple images.)

Enjoy. It’s free. And it will help build your digital imprint.

Joe

P.S. Sparky Firepants made that fancy cartoon of me. Contact him if you need any animation done. Tell him I sent you.

Build your digital imprint

August 23, 2008 By Joe Hage Leave a Comment

In “Why I keep a blog” I detailed the five reasons I’m here in cyberspace:

To learn, compete, help, entertain, and build credibility.

Building credibility

Through the power of social media, my digital imprint is taking on a life of its own. 24 people wrote a compliment about me on Biznik. And four wrote entire articles about me.

In “Social Media Training with Joe,” SEO expert Barry Hurd wrote, “Joe has … an extreme grasp of both tactical and strategic marketing … a sparkling resume … Joe is the ‘full meal deal’ when it comes to marketing strategy.”
In “Don’t spend a dime on marketing until you read this,” Professional Life and Business Coach Tshombe Brown wrote, “I just read two absolutely amazing articles by Marketing Genius Joe Hage … you will be blown away at how much value you’ll get from them.

It’s indulgent all right, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like the attention. [Read more...]