What is Yammer? A social media field guide

Tumblr: The one for bloggers who are over post-postmodernism

What is it? Tumblr, opines Chris Dannen in Fast Company, is blogging, the way blogging was meant to be. He goes on: "Tumblr is a little bit the long lost cousin of its other buzzword counterparts. Like Twitter, it takes the now-antiquated medium of the blog and refreshes it with a new format, a centralized platform, and more interactivity. Like Facebook, it's yet another face on your ... more 

Tumblr: The one for bloggers who are over post-postmodernism

What is it? Tumblr, opines Chris Dannen in Fast Company, is blogging, the way blogging was meant to be. He goes on: "Tumblr is a little bit the long lost cousin of its other buzzword counterparts. Like Twitter, it takes the now-antiquated medium of the blog and refreshes it with a new format, a centralized platform, and more interactivity. Like Facebook, it's yet another face on your online personality, a scrap book of the Web-you. In one sentence, Tumblr is a blogging platform that makes it easier to post video, audio, words, social bookmarks, photos, and even other people's blog posts into your blog, and share it with other people. Instead of having to upload things to YouTube, Delicious or Flickr, or create your own WordPress database before posting things, you can put your media directly into Tumblr from your computer or mobile phone."

Who uses it? Hipsters and creative types. Those raised on the Internet, for whom simple blogging or tweeting is frustratingly straightforward.

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