Welcome to Tumblr, mobile ads. Can you guys live with this format?
Is this the beginning of the end?
Attn: Tumblr Staff - You have a glitch.
Dear Tumblr,
Please fix this glitch:
When I try to reblog something from a person’s actual blog rather than my dashboard, it freezes. It looks fine, but the “create post” button is dead. I can click and click and click on it and absolutely nothing happens.
This has gotten incredibly frustrating and makes me not want to follow new people or reblog things from people I don’t already know just because of the hassle.
My favorite tweets of the Tumblr Down episode.
Can we say that tumblr has a fandom too at this point or…
(Source: grand-motherwillow, via teacupsandcapes)
HEY TUMBLR, it's the Tumblr vs Twitter race to $1000 for EveryLibrary!
Attention tumblarians, library-loving tumblrers, and all the internet friends: today kicks off a one-week fundraiser to $1000 to benefit EveryLibrary, the first and only national organization dedicated exclusively to political action at a local level to create, renew, and protect public funding for libraries of all types.
In order to maximize our efforts,Tumblr is taking on the Twitter community in a race to $1k, from today until next Tuesday, November 20th.
Help today, help tomorrow.
Why does EveryLibrary need our help? Funding raised this week will go towards the necessary personnel and resources needed to do voter analysis on library ballot measures which were voted on across the country during the election. What EL learns from this election will have a critical impact on our strategy of support for future library endeavors on the ballot. Cool and important, right?
Even cooler, if you can’t give cash right now, we’ve partnered with Urban Libraries Unite (an incredible org, check it out) in supporting their book drive which is currently seeking new and good condition used children’s books and new unmarked children’s coloring and activity books (with crayons if possible), to go out to young victims of the storm who are currently in shelters in New York City. Material donations should be directed here.
If you’re feeling particularly philanthropic this week, ULU is also looking for cash donations, as is the New Jersey Library Association Relief project.
Please consider giving what you can. Chip in $5 or $10—or donate books to support Sandy victims.
To contribute to the #tumblarian EveryLibrary race to 1k (WHICH I HAVE EVERY CONFIDENCE WE CAN CLEAN UP WELL BEFORE NEXT TUESDAY), please click through the link above or here.
Give us a like, a reblog, a shout out to your friends and family. Think about it: all we need is about 100 folks to find $10 or so for the cause. Let’s have fun, do good work for EveryLibrary, and flex these Tumblarian muscles. Let us also show Twitter what’s up.
To learn more about EveryLibrary (and to share the good news with your generous friends) please visit here.
"Girl 1: What’s that “keep calm” thing? I keep seeing it everywhere. Girl 2: It’s a tumblr thing."
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Teach me to hear the mermaids’ singing: Things I Overhear…
NO. NO IT IS NOT A TUMBLR THING. #EDUCATIONFAIL
In early June, the publishing industry takes Manhattan for Book Expo America. We’re taking the opportunity to celebrate the millions of amazing readers and writers who call the Tumblr community home.
Join us at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe for free drinks, fun swag, mixing, mingling, and readings by Edan Lepucki, Alexander Chee, and Baratunde Thurston.
Totally going to this.
What are the best times to post to your favorite social media platforms? Bitly crunched the numbers and here’s what they found:
- Post 9am-3pm ET, Monday through Thursday
- Especially post 1-3pm ET, Monday through Thursday
- Avoid posting after 8pm ET during the weekends
- Avoid posting after 3pm ET on Friday and at all on weekends
- Post 1-4pm ET during the week
- Especially post midweek 1-3pm ET
- The very best time is Wednesday at 3pm ET
- Avoid posting between 8pm ET and 8am ET during the week
- Avoid posting on weekends
Tumblr (graphic posted above)
- Post from 4pm ET onward
- Especially post from 7pm-10pm ET onward, with Monday and Tuesdays being good
- Post on Friday evenings
(Sounds about right. Tumblr’s popularity in the evening supports my assessment that everyone likes to live-blog TV.)
Really interesting. Helpful for all of us who have to resort to shameless self-promotion on various social media platforms.
(via jeffisageek)
Still Looking for Web Designers!
Hey guys! Just a reminder that I am still on the hunt for awesome and talented web designers. Read all about the contest to help me redesign and relaunch my blog here.
And a note to those of you who have already emailed me and are concerned I have not yet responded. Don’t worry, I got your emails and am going to be getting back to everyone over the course of the next week or so!
And remember to share that post about the contest — I would love to see if this experiment can work!
stamos: Contest! Calling All Web Designers!
You guys you guys YOU GUYS! Do you remember my old blog, the blog that started it all when I was 10 days out of massive jaw surgery and couldn’t talk and had so many feelings and things to say and so I started writing and thus JAW WIRED SHUT was born from the ether of my brain and out through…
"If you’re younger than 13, don’t use Tumblr. Ask your parents for an Xbox or try books."
– The new Tumblr TOS. [NPR Books site, for those of you younger than 13.] (via nprfreshair)
(via nprfreshair)
#lit and #history need to get together and have a baby called #libraries.
Dear people bitching about message restrictions:
You all know this site is free and they let you play on it, right? That it takes money to run…money I have yet to see earned with obnoxious ads all over my blog?
Yeah.
Thought so.
Xo rachael
