Tumblr for Libraries

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TUMBLR. FOR LIBRARIES Presenter: Diana Silveira

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All about Tumblr

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TUMBLR.FOR LIBRARIES

Presenter: Diana Silveira

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Agenda◦ Two Week Class: March 4 & 11

◦What is tumblr?

◦How does it work?◦ Professional Uses◦ Library Pages

◦ Interacting on Tumblr

◦Making Your Tumblr Engaging

◦ Tumblr Tips

◦ Tumblr Tools and Hacks

◦ Tumblrs to Follow

◦ The Future of Tumblr

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Quick Poll

Image from: http://goo.gl/ypOR45

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WHAT IS TUMBLR?

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What is Tumblr?

◦Effortlessly Share Anything◦Microblogging – less is more◦Post text, quotes, links, videos, etc◦Find blogs based on interests/tags◦Comments rare, reblogs common

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How popular is Tumblr?

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Quick Facts◦ 38,000 posts per a minute

◦Users spent 154.1 minutes on average on Tumblr

◦ 46.5 percent of Tumblr visitors are 18-34-years-old.

Sources: http://goo.gl/1rpliY, http://goo.gl/cD5t2

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Why is Tumblr so popular?

◦Easy to find similar blogs

◦Easy to share & make posts

◦Easy to track

◦Interacts with other social media

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“the best baby Twitter and WordPress didn’t know they ever had.” This is an apt metaphor. With all the functionality of WordPress, Tumblr also offers many of the same social features as Twitter. Just as tweets can be favorited, Tumblr posts can be liked. Tweets can be retweeted; Tumblr posts, reblogged. On Tumblr, like Twitter, you can follow people, and your dashboard, like your Twitter feed, is a stream of posts by everyone you follow, organized from most to least recent. Post can be tagged and those tags can show you what everyone else on Tumblr is posting on the same subject, similar to how hashtags are used on Twitter.”

- Kate Tkacik (thelifeguardlibrarian.tumblr.com), who was one of LJ’s 2013 Movers & Shakers  from ALA Magazine http://goo.gl/tSqTF

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Did you know?

In 2013, Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 Billion

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HOW TUMBLR WORKS

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Create an Account

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Find some Tumblrs to follow◦ Librarians online:

◦ thelifeguardlibrarian.tumblr.com/

◦Great Libraries To Check Out:◦ Baker Free Library◦ Public Lib of Cincinnati

Image from: http://goo.gl/raSoZ1

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Follow

http://tumblr.libraryjournal.com/

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Let’s start blogging

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Making Posts

◦Dashboard◦Add Posts (With Tags!)◦Reblog or like a post◦See who liked/reblogged

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Tags and Blogs• Find Tumblrs

• Use tags to find info

• Track key tags

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Personalizing Tumblr

Click icon to add picture

Pick Your Theme

Customize Your Theme

Advanced Options

Change Appearance

Apps

Add Pages

More

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USING TUMBLR

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Professional Development

teenlibrariantoolbox.tumblr.compewinternet.tumblr.comlibraryadvocates.tumblr.com/

Offers perks like invites to author parties at conference

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Interact with authors

rainbowrowell.tumblr.comneil-gaiman.tumblr.comYA Authors on Tumblr: yahighway.tumblr.com

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Connect.Librarians on Tumblr use the tags #libraries, #librarians, and #Tumblarians to talk to each other (http://goo.gl/tSqTF)

• thelifeguardlibrarian.tumblr.com• http://thepinakes.tumblr.com/ • http://wordtraffic.tumblr.com/

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Libraries on Tumblr◦ http://nypl.tumblr.com

◦ chicagopubliclibrary.tumblr.com

◦ canterburylibrary.tumblr.com

◦ hclib.tumblr.com

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What to do on Tumblrshare photos

promote upcoming events

promote community

make announcements

promote your collection

promote reading

interact with your audience

Visit your library archives

Have fun

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Other Profession Dev Uses◦ Reading

◦Discover

◦ Find/Share Infographics and memes

◦ Keep up with trends (using hashtags)

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Homework◦Set up a tumblr blog for either professional or personal use with:◦Title◦Description◦Theme

◦Make at least one post of original content (Image, quote, etc…with at least 3 relevant tags)

◦Reblog another blog post and add your own commentary

◦Send me the URL along with questions

◦Bonus: Follow at least one other Tumblr

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Contact

Diana Silveira

[email protected]

877-816-9638

Slideshare.net/dee987

Delicious.com/dee987/tumblr

http://dee987.tumblr.com/

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