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In an attempt to curate the service’s huge collection of content, Tumblr is launching a new initiative they’re calling Storyboard, subtitled “tales from behind the dashboard.”
The microblogging service and social networking website will post regular features from different users within the Tumblr community with interesting stories to tell. Whether they highlight content from animators and musicians to writers, comedians and other bloggers, Storyboard will feature a new story everyday and will be a hub for thoughtful conversations within the Tumblr community.
In a video post via Storyboard.Tumblr.com Tumblr Editor-in-Chief Chris Mohney said, “We could never possibly tell everyone’s story, even if we told 100 stories a day, but we can help bring people to light that one sector of the community may never encounter through their natural organic reading of Tumblr.”
Tumblr has recently featured posts from Michael Stipe, former R.E.M. singer, The New York Times, Afghanistan and the design mechanics of the Tumblr Dashboard to kick off the new effort.
If you are interested in submitting your story or idea, post it on your Tumblr andhashtag it with #storyboard.Tumblr is looking for user submissions.
“Our editors will monitor the tag and the community’s interactions there, promoting stories that resonate,” said representatives on the site. “And if your story really works, we’ll ask to expand it for publication on Storyboard itself.”
Tumblr hired formerly senior vice president of content at BlackBook Media Chris Mohney as editor-in-chief, and previous senior writer editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast Jessica Bennett as executive editor last February. Mohney and Bennett will both be overseeing the Storyboard project.
Since its launch in 2007, Tumblr has grown drastically. According to data from comScore the site boasted over 46 million blogs and brought in 13.4 million unique visitors each month as of late February 2012.
If you’re looking to get featured on Tumblr’s Storyboard project, start adding the #storyboard hashtag and hope that Tumblr takes notice.This is your chance get Internet-famous outside of YouTube.
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Tumblr is a really fantastic place of content, thus trying to get yourself noticed amongst that borderless ocean of treasures is definitely not easy. I too love to share interesting stories that I’ve encountered on my travelling trip, and even though it did gain some good organic traffic, it never grew wildly like I’ve always wanted as my posts tend to get drowned out very quickly. I’m so glad they finally added such a new feature to give all the content creators a better chance of getting featured.
Tumblr is now better integrated with Facebook. So, if you have a Facebook account you can share you blog to your non-Tumblogger friends and invite them in using Tumblr.
Sifting through so much great content posts is definitely quite a challenge, so eventually they would need another better way to deal with their content. I think this is quite a good feature since it keeps things under control, and directs more attention to the posts that they really find deserving. It’s also more convenient for readers like myself who don’t wish to rummage through all the posts and just wish to visit only the most popular ones. Good luck with your posts Howles; hope to see yours featured one day!
We hope so, too. And it’s good to know that you find this info very convenient and helpful.
Tumblr’s goal is to expose people to a wider range of material than they would be able to access by themselves. Infact, the Storyboard could be rewarding to those brands who take the time to cultivate a unique and interesting blog.
Tumblr, the micro blogging platform and social networking site, has grown immensely. The content base of Tumblr is massive and seemingly infinite, and the editors at Tumblr wanted to provide their users a unique experience. Thus, Storyboard was launched.
Tumblr has launched a new initiative called Storyboard. Basically, it not only gives some quality content to read but it also shows how the Tumblr platform can be used to create more long -form content than what you’d expect. It’s a win all around.
It’s a wonderful hub for unique and creative contents. It’s a social gift for the creative bloggers. It has been purposed to constitute as some sort of online magazine that will expose the viewers for high quality and beautiful contents.
Storyboard as an online magazine for the blog network appears as an awesome option. Highlighted on Storyboard can be worth a gigantic level of exposure. Storyboard is definitely a thing that fits to Tumblr’s creative culture.
With thousands of blogs posted per day, the normal user will find it hard to sift through it to fin great content. Tumblr has realized that and devised Storyboard to help out.
Storyboard will be posting regular features from the Tumblr community with an interesting story to share. It can range from anything to highlighting content from writers, musicians, animators, scientists, comedians, whoever. The Tumblr-launched platform will feature one story per day.
Tumblr is a re-envisioning of tumblelogging, a subset of blogging that uses quick, mixed-media posts. The service hopes to do for the tumblelog what services like LiveJournal and Blogger did for the blog
If you’re a Tumblr user and want to share a story with the Storyboard team, all you need to do is tag a post with Storyboard. According to the announcement, Tumblr’s editors will “monitor the tag and the community’s interactions there, promoting stories that resonate.”
This sounds like an excellent opportunity for Tumblr to further engage its user base in a classically “Tumblr-y” way, as long as they ensure they Facebook and tweet the links so the curated content has maximum opportunity to eventually be reblogged back onto Tumblr again as if it were never posted there in the first place.
Hmmm. That sounds great! I would love to be internet famous, in a good way that is.