Don’t know what a gravatar is? It’s okay, not everyone does, so let me back the gravy train back up… a gravatar is a “globally recognized avatar” that appears next to your comments on blogs that have enabled gravatars and it is based on the email address users register their gravatar and comment with.

Gravatars are a great way to personalize your web involvement and because it follows you everywhere, we suggest an easily identifiable face shot so people will recognize you when they finally get the pleasure of meeting you in person. It’s free and takes about two minutes at gravatar.com where you can even have different gravatars for different email addresses under one account- just sign up and fuggetabout it!

Can you digg it?

Did you know that you can use social bookmarking on any site? By setting up an account on digg.com, you can virtually tag any article you like on any site and when you sign in, you see all the articles you’ve bookmarked. No more writing down websites, no more worrying about remembering urls.

So pick your favorite article here (might I suggest my favorite article?) and digg it! Then, go see what other people digg and find new sources of information, it’s easy and it’s free (my two favorite flavors).

This will be a place for deeper discussion about case studies and practical applications presented on this site and will be a place for socialization- so upload your Austin Social Media pictures, talk about the awesomeness of new media and get to know us and one another!

You can see tons of pictures of the Austin Social Media Scene on our flickr page where all of the pictures at the bottom of this page are hosted. Be sure to comment on pictures of the people you know (or would like to know).