Make your comments on blogs and community websites more personal with your Globally Recognized Avatar: GRAVATAR. Many sites enable gravatars, which means yours will automatically appear next to your comment when you use the email address to which it’s attached. You will rarely have to even think about it. When you want to change it,
In the growing body of information about how to grow and manage online communities, Angela Connor’s 18 Rules of Community Engagement is among the best. The book is full of common sense and good advice from someone who has been there, done that, and continues to do it. Angela is a successful community manager, growing
Note: This is a guest post written by Jan Felt. The author is a blogger at CyberFootprint, and a marketing and communication enthusiast. You can check out his blog, or follow him on Twitter. This post won’t make you a better lover, just as it won’t make you rich or famous. Don’t switch to YouTube
It seems as though this question could be answered with a simple “yes” or “no” (I would argue “no”), but a conversation I had yesterday with Chris Madrid of New Mexico Community Capital’s IMPACT New Mexico program helped me understand two things: 1) that a static website can still have some value as an “online
Good website navigation not only helps visitors find the information they are looking for, it also tells them where they are on a website. This is especially important in light of the fact that people may arrive anywhere on a website via search or a link from another website. They will appreciate some indication of
If you’re struggling with whether or not to launch a blog, you need to download and read this whitepaper. Sometimes the hardest part of blogging is making the decision to do it. That can be especially true for companies, where it may be necessary to get buy-in from several stakeholders across multiple departments in multiple
Bandwagons are lots of fun to jump onto: there are usually a lot of upbeat, excited people already there. Many of them are convinced the bandwagon is taking them to a lovely, special place where their dreams will be fulfilled. And possibly they will be. The problem is, when people are in a state of
