Tumblr: Annie Unfiltered

June 1, 2010

Annie Unfiltered

Are you on Tumblr? I’ve had an account for a while, as I think it’s one of the most powerful blogging platforms out there (with all of its integrated social networking snazzyness), but since this site is my home base I wasn’t quite sure how to use it.

I think I’ve figured it out.

AnnieSorensen.com represents who I am as a brand, everything live-your-best-life-everyday. My personality is most definitely a part of that, but the content here still has a professional bent. I will be using Tumblr as more of an unfiltered version of what I present here. Still me, still my brand, but a bit more rag-tag. Perhaps a bit goofier, a bit off-topic or inconsistent, but still swirling around my passion of inspiring you to live just a little better, to do a little more.

Stop by and say hello, won’t ya?

  • http://stephenbiernacki.com sbiernacki

    Cool idea-provoking post, Annie. First of all, I think you've got a pretty nice methodology going on with how you plan to use anniesorensen.com compared to Tumblr. A place for this, a place for that, but both places are never too far away from each other. And I'm liking the name “annie unfiltered”.

    I used to use Tumblr long ago, a little for short blogging, but mostly to capture everything that interested me online. Pictures, videos, links, in the most sort of “artful” way I could do it. I was inspired by Tumblr's creative presentation, and even community. Twitter ended up replacing that for me, which is OK, but though it's easier to have an audience there, it's certainly a lot less personalized than Tumblr. When it comes to my own stuff, I've been using Posterous. I think both services are great, but I switched for a few specific reasons that I could get into if you wanted.

    Anyways, yea, I'm in the process of creating a new home for myself using Squarespace, and I've been giving thought to how I'm integrate Posterous in that space. Really hoping to finally once and for all establish the 'ole personal brand with this one… everything from content, to tone of voice, to colors.

    Oh – I LOVE how you integrated Formspring into it! I may have to ask for some pointers on that, because it's fantastic.

    • http://www.anniesorensen.com Annie Sorensen

      Formspring is interesting, eh? Stop back by and share your Squarespace url with everyone when you get it up and running! Thanks for stopping by, Stephen.

  • http://tomhodgins.com tomhodgins

    Tumblr is what Twitter SHOULD be…. I'm a former Pownce user speaking here. Tumblr is the only micro-blogging service that Gets It Right™ as far as posting media and text, allow custom theming, having EXCELLENT mobile apps, and still having a consistent user experience.

    It doesn't replace a blog, which is articles, it's just a collection of asides and tidbits related to your life that allow others to interact with you. Unlike twitter, it allows media posted directly in. Unlike twitter it's curtated (meaning twitter is a giant flat list, and replies are to everybody, at the top of YOUR list. Tumblr has comments per post, so I can post under your posts and they show up there for everybody else (it's sorted).

    The future is going to rely on curating the vast amounts of data out there – Tumblr does this well, and allows others to curate media they find online. http://fuckyeahmashups.tumblr.com is a great exmaple of this.

    Nobody wants a list of: the 50 best Tumblr Themes, nobody wants 200 Tumblr Themes. What we want is -> the 5 crucial themes you need to be aware of. If time is money, then brevity in writing is luxury. There's no shortage of information online available to us, but unsorted and uncurated that data is still useless to us. The future of Twitter will be the introduction of tools (like Tumblr) that will allow us to curate and augment the stream of information.

    Tumblr is what Facebook is trying to with the the wall posts and status updates. Tumblr is what Twitter wishes it was. Tumblr is a threat to Typepad. Tumblr is the little brother of WordPress/blogging. Tumblr is like IM or email betweens friends on steroids.

    Now, the easiest way to post to wordpress, tumblr, dailybooth (soon), facebook, twitter, flickr, youtube, vimeo and more all at the same time (and in an intelligent way) is http://posterous.com

    :D

    • http://www.anniesorensen.com Annie Sorensen

      So, Tom, what you're saying is that you, umm, *kinda* like Tumblr?

      • http://tomhodgins.com tomhodgins

        I don't have a ton of time for microblogging, lately all of my time has been sucked up building the http://bvilltweets.com site and helping to organize that tweetup and such.

        I'm a little surprised you haven't installed the WP-touch plugin, I know you've got an Android device… I think you'll like it!

        As for Tumblr I just see it as the (too often ignored) first shining milestone of what microblogging ought to be, and it was gaining traction before Oprah name-dropped twitter and, well as they say, the rest is history.

        Twitter is our saviour now, but much like Flash it will get too old (and is already 5 or 6 years behind it's competitors) and we will be cursing it and blaming it for setting us back. The more tumblr sooner, the better!!

        • http://www.anniesorensen.com Annie Sorensen

          I agree with you about the future of Twitter & Tumblr. Will be interesting to see how it plays out!

          WP-touch plugin, you say? Hmm…

          • http://tomhodgins.com tomhodgins

            Yes, I did type that reply on my iPhone on the carpet floor half asleep hehe :D

  • http://twitter.com/rjvillagomez Rod Villagomez

    Me too!! Looks like great minds think alike! http://rodsrants.com/blog/2010/04/30/ill-tumblr…

    • http://www.anniesorensen.com Annie Sorensen

      Perfect. :)

  • http://blog.thintopia.com Micah

    Good idea. I think I might try that too.

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