Thanks to my friend Deb, who has been following my blog, I learned about a cool function through the voki avatar program. She discovered that within the avatar's "player" there was an icon for leaving a comment. By clicking on this icon she was able to be transported to the "create an avatar" function of voki. She created her own avatar without having to giver her email address out or create a new account. Then she was able to leave a message for me. She told me that she had left a comment so I went back to the link where I had posted my avatar and the original message. All I had to do was click the icon which looks like a dialogue box and up popped her avatar pictuer. With one click I was able to hear her message and see her avatar "talk" to me.
After this fun find we experimented a little more. I was able to leave a message to her message. Everything stays in the one link. The discussion is threaded so you can play in sequence or just play the latest message. Deb even beat me to adding her own voice to her avatar. That was pretty cool.
One down side to the voki site is that your avatar's player (the frame that surrounds the picture) is going to have an advertisement on it. So currently my avatar looks like she's the posterchild for "Bridezilla". That's the "price" we pay I guess when we use free sites. So as long as you know that going in, then avatar away!
The final note I want to make about this experiment is that I received an email notice that a message had been left for me with my avatar. So that's good to know. You don't have to go back to check just in case someone left you a message, it will tell you. Nice huh? So thanks Deb for helping me discover that cool function.
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