This is a presentation on how to implement social media site Tumblr onto a website effectively, as well as making Tumblr a useful tool for the clientele that you are trying to serve. I hope you enjoy my presentation!

1. Innovative Idea: Tumblr
By Mara Dickie

2. What is Tumblr?
 Tumblr is a social media platform that is
extremely different from the “big 3” that libraries
use most frequently- Facebook, Twitter, and
Flicker
 It “allows users to post multimedia and other
content to a short-form blog, named a
"tumblelog.“” (Wikipedia article on Tumblr)
 For more information, see my summary of my
Innovative Idea 

3. My Innovative Idea
Assignment in a practical
library setting

4. How to use Tumblr for your
Library
Example- Project Graphical with Dickie Public Library

5. How to set up your blog
 Three main
components
 E-mail address
 Password
 URL of your blog
 This can be changed at
any point, depending on
availability of the name

6. Your Dashboard
 Your dashboard is
your main posting hub
(besides reblogging)
 I will be showing you
how to create photo
and text posts,
because they are
extremely common
with any kind of blog

7. Two Ways to Upload a Photo

8. Creating Text Posts

9. Picking Out a Theme for Your
Blog
 There are a lot of
different themes and
layouts to choose
from, depending on
what the purpose for
your Tumbleblog is
 You can also make
and find themes with
HTML coding if you
are looking for
something extremely
unique

10. Editing or Changing a Pre-set Theme
(1)
 In many cases, the developer of the theme has
left some areas open for the users to customize
and make it seem like it’s theirs, rather than a
template
 Changes to the original template could include
 Colour changes (font, background, links, etc.)
 Background picture change
 Adding and deleting links
 Adding and editing a description of what the blog is
about
Examples of this are on the next slide

11. Editing or Changing a Pre-set Theme
(2) (Menus and Changeable Aspects)

12. Embedding Tumblr onto Your
Website (1)
 Tumblr offers a script code (see next slide) in
which all someone using it would have to do is
copy and paste it into their website
 For my website, I have also included a “Share”
button, which allows users to share the website
that I have created on Tumblr through a post onto
my dashboard

13. Embedding Tumblr onto Your
Website (2) (Embedding the Blog)

14. Embedding Tumblr onto Your
Website (3) (Share Button Codes)

15. Embedding Tumblr onto Your
Website (4)
 The results of this are  You will need to put
very plain, as seen in some sort of title or
the next slide (with no link to your Tumblr
additional coding blog in when
involved) implementing this
 However, if you are technology at the
good with coding very least
(specifically with CSS  That way, people
codes), then you can can go right to your
make the layout look blog, and view the
more appealing contents without
setting up an
account
 An example of this
implementation is
within the next few
slides

16. Embedding Tumblr onto Your
Website (5) (No Extra Coding Added)

17. Embedding Tumblr onto Your
Website (6) (Extra Coding Added,
Share Button)

18. Embedding Tumblr onto Your
Website (6) (What Happens Next?)
 Share Button- if
someone clicks on the
share button, a
window (see right) will
pop up and do the
work for you
 Embedding your blog
into a website
unfortunately does not
allow for any access
to your blog, you will
have to create that
yourself

19. Advantages to Using Tumblr in a
Library Setting
 The users are very up  Tumblr can be
to date- in many anything you want it
cases when it comes to be- it all depends
to pop culture, Tumblr on what you want to
users were already try and do with it (and
aware of the trends who it is marketed
just as they were towards) to make it a
coming out on valuable social asset
Facebook. This is to your library
extremely important
for people in the
library, especially
when it comes to

20. Web 2.0 Technologies In Tumblr
 Tagging- usually done within posts, helps
categorize and organize what you post
 Social Media Integration- putting links from other
social media platforms (such as other
Tumbleblogs, Facebook and Twitter accounts)
and giving your followers other ways to connect
with you
 Highlighting (requires payment)- a unique feature
to Tumblr that categorizes posts differently within
three broad categories- news, events, creators,
products, celebrations, questions, fandom,
miscellaneous

21. Links I Used for Implementing
 Please also see my summary of this technology
for more background information as well as
clickable links
 http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/share_button
 http://www.tumblr.com/goodies
 https://www.tumblr.com/login

22. Thanks for Watching my Presentation!
If you have any questions or comments about how to improve this Innovative
Idea, let me know!