Do You Tumbl?
Blogging April 7th, 2008
So over the weekend I attended a social dinner event here in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint area of Brooklyn. It was a great party with some really interesting people. As the night progressed, there were about four or five folks who asked me “do you Tumbl”? What an odd question I thought. Do I Tumbl?! I asked the first two people to explain themselves and they slightly recoiled in embarrassment or dismissed my inquiry as if I wouldn’t understand any explanation they could deliver. When the third person asked me this I was determined to know what they hell they were talking about. Now, I consider myself to be 110% in the know about anything pertaining to social media. I’m usually aware of new initiatives, programs, apps, site changes, whatever. Yet I had never heard of Tumblr. Oddly enough the explanations I received from people weren’t accurate. They had me convinced that Tumblr was A) like twitter and, B)a way to sync your blog with a community timeline. A) is kind of true but B) was not. Tumblr is probably the easiest way to start a blog. It’s incredibly simple (the website claims you can start blogging in about 10 minutes) and it is very similar to Twitter but more robust. You can add text, photos, chat, audio, and video. It also has to ability to be completely social. Much like Twitter you can follow people but you can also join or start groups. I can see this having a lot of potential for many different types of projects.
I found that there were about eight people at the dinner event that had planned a meetup. They all Tumbled and they all followed each other’s Tumblr blogs. They were all very much into cooking as this is what the event was mostly about. It was interesting to see a previously unknown online app bring people together like this. I was sure to know about an app with that kind of social power but before that night I never heard of Tumblr. I’m glad I now know about it and I’m seriously considering using it in the near future.
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April 7th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
As someone whose had blogs for years and tried all of the major blogging platforms, I keep coming back to using my Tumblr blog, now alongside my main wordpress powered blog, for the simple fact that Tumblr is just a joy to use. So simple, so focused and so much easier to get media into.
Try it, you’ll like it.