For some reason, when I started getting into blogging and social media in a semi-formal way, I decided to use the following picture as my avatar everywhere:

BadgerGravling aka Dan Thornton

As a result, at recent events I’ve chatted to several people who knew and chatted with my online identity, but didn’t realise it was me for quite a while.

Which is funny, but also highlights the weakness of not having more pictures of me in circulation, as I might be missing out on some really good conversations.

So, seeing as I received a very cool free T-shirt from Socialmedian, a service which I’m using more and more, I thought I’d take a picture to help me people identify me a little more easily.

Does this help?

So that should make it a bit easier to spot me at events, conferences and twestivals etc…

In all seriousness, it does highlight a slight problem with using imagery etc as an avatar, rather than a real picture – particularly as I’m between motorcycles and on public transport to a lot of events, and motorcycle crash helmets have a lifespan of about five years – and the same model/paintsheme probably won’t exist!