GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: GSA starts first federal blog on Tumblr platform

General Services Administration debuts USA.gov Blog on social blogging site

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Federal Computer Week

05April2011 12:06pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The federal government is now on Tumblr, with the General Services Administration launching its USA.gov Blog on the popular blogging and social networking platform.

"GSA negotiated the Tumblr terms of service, and we are the first federal agency using Tumblr," said GSA spokesman Robert Lesino.

Tumblr is a free, Web-based social network service that offers registered members an opportunity to blog, share their blogs, "re-blog" by posting others' blogs and to follow and search other members’ blogs. It claimed 15 million users as of March. (read full report)

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