Before I show you how to change your avatar on a wordpress blog, I just have to say  EH2 CANADA!

This years Olympics, held in Vancouver, B.C.,Canada was an amazing event and I wanted to say my own personal Congratulations to all the athletes, the volunteers and everyone who took part in this historic gathering of people around the globe. 

If you had noted the tweets using all the different hash tags ( #gocanadago, #crushthecanucks, #van2010 and so on), I can tell you, what a conversation you would have had.


Anyways, this morning while I was going through the different tweets from the people I follow, I came across a fellow talking about an article he recommended and as I respect him (http://twitter.com/msuster) I went to see what he had to say.  Well one thing led to another and I ended up on a different site and read a fantastic  blog post about Twitter and Facebook titled: 

Twitter is the Drive-Thru, Facebook is the Sit down Restaurant

Just a fantastic discussion, that I would encourage anyone to join in.  Of course I had to give my thoughts on Erin"s article where i said:

"

What a fantastic analogy! personally I love fast food most of the time, but my business partner prefers the wonderful service of the sit down restaurant. Between the two of us we have the full meal deal. I
would say that just like any fast food, you have to target your
followers on Twitter, to keep it more healthy, otherwise.. heartburn
can happen…lol. Seriously, I think that you need both Twitter and
Facebook to really make your social experience work well for you.

While I agree that Facebook and Twitter are indeed the powerhouses of the social media industry, may I suggest that for people to really use social media to their best advantage..to think in terms of the
Smörgåsbord?

Very cool article and Thank you

@blogneta "

 After I had posted, I stayed around to see if everything would show up correctly and noted...with aghast and horror that my avatar is all wrong.

Avatar you say?

An avatar is  an icon image of yourself and is used in many ways, but most often on different types of comments.

Well folks, here is a lesson for you... don't change your avatar to something cute or um, in my case run for the hills image unless you remember to change it back!  ( in my case ..think Halloween and you might get an idea of what it looked like)

So, how does one put an avatar on a word press blog?

It is very simple:

Go to http://gravatar.com/

You will be asked to sign into Wordpress.com as they are linked together.  Once you have completed the steps, you should be set to go.

Oh if it does not show right away, try clearing your browsers cache and gulp, it may take a few hours to populate the system.

um...i hope...lol