Blogs Widget
Show recently updated blogs across your site, with avatars, through this handy widget
An incredibly simple, effective and configurable way to show the blog avatars of recently updated blogs from across your entire site on your site's homepage via simple widget.

Just drop this into mu-plugins, install the avatars plugin and you're away.
Once installed you just go Appearance > Widgets and add the Blogs widget to your sidebar

Check out the configuration options below:

Other plugin options for helping users connect with each other on your site include:
1. Users widget plugin - Show a nice list of random users from your site, with avatars

2. Global Site Search plugin - creates a Site Search page on your homepage which allows users to search content across your entire site

3. Blog Directory plugin - creates a Blog Directory page on your homepage which allows users to easily locate blogs on your entire site

4. Global Site Tags - allows you to simply display a global tag cloud for your entire WordPress MU site

5. Members Directory - creates a member directory of all the users that are registered at your site

