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Connecting WordPress with Social Media
Gravatar, avatars and linking to social media through WordPress Global.
If you have blog content, you may want your readers to share that content. In this article, Linda offers a variety of ways to help your readers share what you've written. The focus in this article is on Gravatar, avatars and linking to social media through WordPress Global.
Conclusion
Using an avatar to display a logo or your image or any other image that you see fit to use can create a visual connection between you and your words and the reader. This connectivity can work to help readers to place your image, subliminally, with your ideas at your blog or at other blogs where you post comments.
Now, in addition to using Gravatar to help you connect with your social media tools, WP also is getting in on the social media circus at their WP Global site. If you host a site with them, you can add "like" and reblogging features to your blog hosted at WP. If this is the case, then you might expect WP to come out with an app in the near future that can help those individuals who host WP blogs on other servers to be able to do the same. Some plugins now offer that capability, but – not trusting using a wide variety of plug-ins – I will wait to see what WP offers after they work out any bugs in this feature.
In the next article, I'll provide more information about these features at WP Global as well as information about other social media capabilities, no matter where you host your WP site.
Linda Goin
Linda Goin carries an A.A. in graphic design, a B.F.A. in visual communications with a minor in business and marketing and an M.A. in American History with a minor in the Reformation. While the latter degree doesn't seem to fit with the first two educational experiences, Linda used her 25-year design expertise on archaeological digs and in the study of material culture. Now she uses her education and experiences in social media experiments.
Accolades for her work include fifteen first-place Colorado Press Association awards, numerous fine art and graphic design awards, and interviews about content development with The Wall St. Journal, Chicago Tribune, Psychology Today, and L.A. Times.