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Tumblr? I Barely Know Her

Tumblr? I Barely Know Her. Using Tumblr in Your Library Presenters: Emily Vater and Jake Moore Boone County Public Library. What is . Short form blog ( tumblelog ) for posting multi-media content S ocial networking platform meets microblogging Relies heavily on pop culture Home of the GIF

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Tumblr? I Barely Know Her

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  1. Tumblr? I Barely Know Her Using Tumblr in Your Library Presenters: Emily Vater and Jake Moore Boone County Public Library

  2. What is • Short form blog (tumblelog) for posting multi-media content • Social networking platform meets microblogging • Relies heavily on pop culture • Home of the GIF • Provides easy readability through the use of images, video, and short text

  3. History of • Official Launch: February 2007 • Created by David Karp and Marco Arment • Bought in 2013 by Yahoo! • Karp still retains CEO title

  4. Who is Reaching? Some Very Important Stats How Big is tumblr?

  5. vs. ake People rue People

  6. Let’s Create a

  7. What is a GIF? Graphics Interchange Format Acompressed image file format Based on indexed colors, which is a palette of at most 256 colors, which helps to greatly reduce file size Compressed image files can be quickly transmitted over a network or the Internet GIF files are great for small icons and animated images, but they lack the color range to be used for high-quality photos. Basically, they’re animated images that are not on the same level of animation

  8. GIFs, GIFs, and more GIFs

  9. The Importance of Tagging “The Dewey Decimal System is to a library what tags are to Tumblr” via thedailydot.com Vital to generating views/likes/reposts Possible Library tags: #library #bcpl #boonelibrary #teen

  10. Questions? Emily Vater Reference Associate Main Library Boone County Public Library evater@bcpl.org Jake Moore Youth Services Librarian Florence Branch Boone County Public Library jmoore@bcpl.org More BPCL Tumblarians: • Pamela Jayne, Youth Services Associate, Main Library – pjayne@bcpl.org • Kaitlin Barber, Local History Associate, Main Library – kbarber@bcpl.org

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