September 17th, 2012

Heads up! SPJ’s launched a Tumblr microblog!

By Gil Asakawa

It’s good to see that SPJ is embracing the new tools of digital media. Tumblr is an easy-to-use “microblog” that allows you to post quick links to content on the Web, or video, or photos, and share them with just a couple of clicks.

And followers (users “follow” Tumblrs) can easily share content to their networks — it’s a very socialized form of blogging.

Personally, I find Tumblr sometimes irritating because a lot of people use the platform to post stuff (like photos) with no captions, explanations, or plain ol’ context. But I use Tumblr myself, and now the SPJ, under the aegis of current prez John Ensslin, has launched a Tumblr where all the committee chairs can post content on the go.

Check out the Society of Professional Journalists’ Tumblr!

This entry was posted by Gil Asakawa on Monday, September 17th, 2012 at 2:11 pm and is filed under Blogging, Social Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Heads up! SPJ’s launched a Tumblr microblog!”

  1. SPJ and Social Media: An Open Letter Says:
    September 18th, 2012 at 8:16 am

    [...] should? How is it different from @spj_tweets? Is it duplicating effort? Do people know it exists? (Networked just announced it. Did you hear about it [...]

  2. Gil Asakawa Says:
    September 18th, 2012 at 8:26 am

    I think the Tumblr will feature more links to stories about our industry, and the Twitter account will continue to focus on SPJ news and internal conversations, job postings etc.

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