I saw Debbie (see BGB and @BGBcomms ) in action at WTM and took a shot behind about 200 people in a full social media session from which I cut out this portrait.
Debbie works in Travel PR and is one of still few PR types who is actively engaging with travel bloggers and social media.
I’ve bugged many people online that they should use an avatar that you can recognize from afar and that enables you to identify the person in question if you see the avatar in a stream or on a wall and moreover that you will be able to recognize them when you meet them in real life. An avatar is a marketing tool for your own brand!
This is the portrait Debbie uses for her Twitter account:
A wonderful portrait and from this you would no doubt recognize her if you met her in real life. However avatars are very small and avatars are in people’s mind when they try to discern someone they know in a room full of people they do not know very well.
If you compare the portraits now cropped to avatar size, wouldn’t you agree with me that the color portrait is far better tham the black and white one? You may use this one if you wish, Debbie!
Update
About half a year after this post Debbie took my advice and changed the Black and White Avatar for a Colored one.
Last edited by GJE on July 22, 2012 at 4:32 pm