"Facebook is probably the most secure platform, but I also feel it's the least dynamic for businesses."
@Jason: I agree. Facebook does have the weakness of being least dynamic for business use but the huge consumer base offers lots of potential for businesses. As a result, companies are finding ways of molding Facebook for business use either through in-house developed tools or other third-party tools.
As platforms become more successful, they also become higher profile security targets. Hopefully security fears don't scare off corporate prospects. Tumblr has the ability to expand corporate brand relationships, for those who explore beyond FB and Twitter.
That's true. Facebook is probably the most secure platform, but I also feel it's the least dynamic for businesses. I guess it's a risk versus reward equation with Tumblr and Twitter, to an extent.
That's a great point -- and definitely something companies need to consider if they start thinking about Tumblr to their social media mix, whether it's for internal or external use.
True, but as one who has written about and followed Biz Stone for years, Twitter only started having issues after the magical four-year time frame, again reaching the point where the bad guys see benefit to messing with them.
Not realizing this blog was coming in, I reached out to IBM (which, as you note, sponsors IE) to see if they might talk with us about how they're using Tumblr. They're doing a great job with it.
Tumblr has several factors going for it:
- Broad base of users, as you note.
- Easy blog setup and usage. You don't have to mess with configuration and installing anything (although customization options exist for those who want to really brand their site). Just register and you're off.
- It's a blog platform AND a social network. Tumblr users have a dashboard which lets them subscribe to, and interact with, many blogs. For users who don't want to mess with that, your Tumblblog just looks like a blog.
hounhosp - Good point. Tumblr is image-intensive. You can host a text-heavy blog on Tumblr -- and many people do -- but the culture is lots and lots of pictures.
If I recall correctly, Tumblr is about four years old. That is long enough for security issues to start creeping in, and it seeems to have enough popularity that the bad guys will also be interested.
You're right, hounhosp, in that it's vital that companies don't adopt Tumblr half-heartedly. If they're going to do this, they must embrace Tumblr, follow up on it, and respond in a timely manner. They can't use Tumblr in a wishywashy way, otherwise they'd better off just avoiding this social network entirely and limiting their brand to Facebook and/or Twitter, etc. If they can't afford to add another site, then don't do it. Or if their customers don't use Tumblr (at least now), then there's no reason for them to invest in this network.
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