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Neat, but why does Nasa have, or need a Tumblr? Why do I have to go there, when I'm already going to nasa.gov?
by overcast 10y ago
Neat, but why does Nasa have, or need a Tumblr? Why do I have to go there, when I'm already going to nasa.gov?
- exDM69 10y agoSo they can focus on space exploration instead of web site maintenance? I understand why they use YouTube for video hosting (video hosting is difficult and expensive) and have a prescence on social media (to reach a wider audience), but yeah, Tumblr is a bit strange. NASA's online prescence is a bit fragmented in the first place, their different facilities have their own websites, social media accounts, etc.
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- jcoder 10y agoBecause that's the right way to leverage social media: Meet your audience in the places they exist, so they can use and share your content, natively. They also posted this to Twitter, and perhaps other platforms.
- ksk 10y agoIf nobody visits it, they'll shut it down.
- ajmurmann 10y agoI know a guy who did a website related project for NASA. Was all smooth sailing till he was just about done and needed a server to put it on. The massive bureaucracy kicked in and everything grinded to a halt. It ended up being hosted on some random server it wasn't really supposed to be on because that was the only thing that could work in a timely fashion. Tumblr seems less frictionless.
- buckbova 10y agoI don't know, but blocked by the corporate firewall. Suppose I should get back to work.