Seth Godin wrote a good post called The power of a tiny picture (how to improve your social network brand). Go check out his list of 10 things to do (and not do) to make a great first impression with your “avatar.”
Then, check out my post about Gravatar, which is a website/tool that allows you to put your avatar in once, and then as you leave comments and do social networking in various sites, your picture is automatically put on that blog or social network.
I couldn’t agree more. I think most would agree that a picture is worth a thousand words.
I just started using Gravatar and it’s been really helpful. Since I have a couple unrelated blogs, I really like the ability to use multiple photos by assigning a different photo to each email address.
Kudos to Matt Mullenweg.