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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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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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278: Evolve Don’t Revolve Your Blogging

ProBlogger

” Now, I started blogging in 2002. It was a mind-blowing question to be asked because everything has changed in my blogging since 2002 except for the fact that a blog is pretty much the same thing. There’s lots of things have changed since 2002. The way we’ve been in 2002 is changing.

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The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Add an avatar and a bio at the minimum. I write about social media , people, not about beer bongs. And well, they say that social media is the new link exchange, so instead of asking for an old-fashioned link (which might have worked in 2002), consider using a more viable strategy for this modern time period.

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