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A Death In The Family. Missing Michael O'Connor Clark

Twist Image

I joined Twist Image in 2002. While it's just an avatar, you really do get the sense like you are seeing and interacting with them (even if all you're doing is creeping on their content). I wish I knew Michael O'Connor Clark better. The company already existed. Michael was always in my feed. Day in and day out.

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Facebook talks like a pirate. Movember and online community rituals

Laurel Papworth

Change your Twitter avatar to be Santa Claus. I photoshop my avatar to have a moustache -. - At first an inside joke between two friends, the holiday gained exposure when John Baur and Mark Summers sent a letter about their invented holiday to the American syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry in 2002. [3]

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9 Ways to Grow Your Blog Faster

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As you may well know, I started blogging back in 2002. When I started Digital Photography School I created avatars to represent the different types of people I’d be writing for. Sounds a bit like an avatar, doesn’t it?). The post 9 Ways to Grow Your Blog Faster appeared first on ProBlogger. Some of them worked.

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The Ultimate Guide to Leaving Comments On Blogs

ProBlogger

The best of these commenters in my experience tend to use a personal name (and where possible use a personal avatar). Note : on avatars, it can be worth registering for a Gravatar account as this is often used for avatars on many blogs. In fact this advice is Day 20 in our 31 Days to Build a Better Blog workbook.

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246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog

ProBlogger

Having said those things, I want to talk about these nine things that have helped me to accelerate the growth of my blogs over the years, things I wish I knew back in 2002 when I started out and I hope that that will help you in your journey as well. I started blogging in 2002. Gradually over time, I began to deepen my avatars.

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216: How to Create a Style Guide for Your Blog (and Why You Should)

ProBlogger

I started blogging in 2002, 2004 for ProBlogger, of course things have changed. Ideally, what you want to create is some kind of avatar or persona or reader profile for your blog. Include a sentence or two about who is reading your blog, and maybe refer to the avatar if you’ve done that exercise.

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213: Blogging and Content Marketing: 10 Things To Know

ProBlogger

For me, it all started in 2002 with an email from a friend. Okay, It was 2002 and I got this email and it had four words in it and a link. Some people would call them personas or avatars today. I know some people like personas and avatars, other people don’t. Whether you’ve got an avatar or not, understand these things.

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