I’m one of those rare people who will register and try out pretty much every new website I come across. That’s because I work in social media. However, I don’t always end up using all of these sites on a regular basis. In this series of posts, I’m going to write about what services I do use, and why I use them.
Tumblr is best described as a micro-blogging service. Rather than essay style blog posts (such as at nowEurope), a tumblelog consists of brief text messages, quotations, links, images or video. It took me no more than a few minutes to set up my Tumblr site. Once I realized I wanted to use the service on a regular basis I set up a custom domain (the company might charge for this feature, but they don’t). You can see the result here: http://stevencarlson.org.
At first I saw my Tumblr experiment as an easy way to run a vanity website. However, as our social media universe continues to evolve I have discovered that my tumblelog is also something different (and even more useful) than what I originally thought.
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