Josh Harrison » LinkedIn http://picklewagon.com Not Bad For A Vampire Thu, 10 May 2012 06:29:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 My New Avatar http://picklewagon.com/2008/12/13/my-new-avatar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-new-avatar http://picklewagon.com/2008/12/13/my-new-avatar/#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:30:29 +0000 Josh Harrison http://www.picklewagon.com/?p=238 Continue reading →]]> Many websites require that you create a profile to take advantage of their services. Some of those sites give you the option to upload a picture of yourself. Depending on the norms of the that particular site, the image you upload can either be a real picture or an avatar (an avatar is a graphical representation of something).

Twitter lets you upload an image representing yourself. LinkedIn does it. Automattic has created the Gravatar service to let you leave your avatar wherever you leave comments on a wordpress.com blog or a wordpress.org blog that supports avatars. It’s a great service that’s very simple to use.

My good friend, Shane Lewis, is an awesome illustrator. I asked him a few months ago if he would take some time out of his busy schedule to draw me an avatar. I think he did a great job.

Shane says that whenever he draws somebody, that person usually complains because there is something wrong with the drawing. For example, you’ll notice that my avatar has more hair than the real me. I’ll take it. It’s a cartoon. Aren’t obvious things like baldness and big noses supposed to be accentuated in cartoons, avatars, etc. It’s not a portrait.

I’m using my avatar in lots of places. I can’t decide if I should replace the picture on my home page with my avatar. What do you think? I even took the liberty to make it my favicon (look at the url in the browser).

Everybody let me know what you think. And, Shane, thanks for your help. I might be coming to you soon for another drawing.

]]> http://picklewagon.com/2008/12/13/my-new-avatar/feed/ 2 Following Your LinkedIn Network http://picklewagon.com/2008/10/16/following-your-linkedin-network/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=following-your-linkedin-network http://picklewagon.com/2008/10/16/following-your-linkedin-network/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:01:23 +0000 Josh Harrison http://www.picklewagon.com/?p=164 Continue reading →]]> LinkedIn has been adding lots of new features over the past year. The one that has proven the most useful to me has been the RSS feed allows you to follow updates to your professional network. It is a convenient way to follow any changes made to anybody’s profile that belongs to your network.

Something that would make it even better would be if everybody update their profiles often. It’s really easy to forget about your professional network and your LinkedIn profile until you need to use it.

For those of you who belong to LinkedIn, go to your homepage and find feed and subscribe to it. Not only will you be able to help others more effectively, but when you need to connect with others or find a job, it will make it so much easier because other will know exactly what you need. For those who don’t belong to LinkedIn, make sure you do it when you get a chance.

The groups LinkedIn has added has proven useful as well. It would be great if they also offered RSS feeds for updates made to the groups that you belong to.

It looks like this feature was released in the middle of March. Here are some blog posts that describe it better:

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