Pro Tip on Tracked Tags
If you want to see all of your tracked tags just hit the tab key and they will pop up on your the right side of your dashboard.
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TUMBLRVA ASSEMBLE!
We’re excited to feature the crew from Tumblr’s Department of Support in this month’s edition of Richmond Famous! It’s improv comedy inspired by the true stories of RVA celebs on October 11th at Gallery5. Don’t miss it.
Well, we’ve agreed to leave our computer screens for some laughs with the awesome folks at Richmond Comedy Coalition. Join us IRL!
(via liannakristine)
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My suggestions on what to do during the tumblr’s scheduled maintenance this weekend.
- Make sandwich, eat sandwich, repeat
- Hang out with your parents or better yet GET YR PARENTS TO BUY YOU THINGS.
- Join in indoor skydiving league
- Keep hitting refresh. You never know>!?!?!? JK, we warned you for a reason.
- Learn how to play pinochle. Just a heads up you will need a special deck of cards for this
- Organize a tumblr meetup and meet all the tumblr QTs you follow in a park. Organize one here
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Tour of the New Dashboard
By now you’ve had some time to click around and get acquainted with the new Dashboard layout, and you may have also read the Staff Blog post that highlights some of the changes. Check out the photoset above for some of Support’s favorite features as well.
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Rare peek at Tumblr Support hard at work.
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Finding ALL THE THINGS
The sheer amount of internet goodness on Tumblr is staggering, and we know it can be overwhelming for new users who are trying to find that special Tumblr tribe where they belong. Here are a few tips for finding blogs and topics that will be interesting to you.
- Tag searches. As we’ve mentioned before on our blog, doing a tag search is one way to find content relevant to your interests. From there, you can easily Follow any blogs without leaving the tag search.
- Tracking tags. To take that a step further, why not track the tags you love? Once you’ve done a tag search, check out our instructions for tracking tags. This will keep your favorite topics displayed along the right-hand side of your Dashboard.
- Explore. Visit Explore to discover awesome tags on Tumblr. The photos along the top represent realtime featured posts, and the list below shows our most popular tags, each one curated by its own team of editors.
- Spotlight. Check out Spotlight to find hand-picked blogs from Tumblr users in a range of different industries, from charities to filmmakers to restaurants.
- Tag searches. As we’ve mentioned before on our blog, doing a tag search is one way to find content relevant to your interests. From there, you can easily Follow any blogs without leaving the tag search.
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A peek into our office… We have a few meeting places, as well as a number of prints and original works of art.
In this particular corner, we have work by Seth Ganz and Deniz Ercelebi, two members of Tumblr Support!
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6 Tumblr Shortcut Keys You Might Not Know
Blogging on tumblr is like a walk in a park. Everything is made easy for its users, from viewing posts of the blogs you follow to posting new stuff and managing them. In fact, everything you need is laid for you right in your dashboard.
But would you believe me if there are 6 shortcut keys that can make that easy even easier? 6 Shortcut keys you might not know of
1. View Quick Blog Info
Do you have multiple blogs and you want to view one of your blog’s info like number of followers or number of messages you received without navigating away from your dashboard. You can do that by holding alt key + click your blog title for windows or hold cmd + click your blog title for mac. A bubble will appear with the desired info
2. Reblog A Post Instantly Without Leaving Your Dash
You want to reblog a post but you don’t want to leave your dashboard? Now you can. Just hold alt key + click the reblog button for windows or hold cmd + click reblog button for mac. Once the button is marked as green, then the post is successfully reblogged!
3. Time Posted
Want to know what time a blog post was posted? Now you can, just simply hover your mouse pointer to the upper right corner of a post. A bubble will appear with the info
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Tumblr Support enjoyed a Star Wars- and race car-themed Tumblr Tuesday outing to G Force Karts, where we played laser tag, raced go karts, & enjoyed some craft beer!
Berny won both his go kart races AND the individual laser tag game, Matt won his rounds of go kart races, and Jim led the red team to victory when we played a teams round of laser tag. Afterward we relaxed with an awesome dinner at Kitchen 64. Fun was had by all!
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Tags
Tags are a great way to organize your blog and find posts about many different topics.
