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Tumblr has made it easier to create a community-powered blog.

There’s an interesting genre of blog that is more about the community than the author.

At some point you’ve probably seen Eat Sleep Draw, This is why you’re fat, or Cute Overload.

The author starts posting about a topic they care about, the readers start contributing, and before you know it, the author has become a curator.

Tumblr has always been uniquely suited for this type of blog. In fact, 6 of them have gone from Tumblr blog to book deal in the last year.

So today we’re very excited to release Submissions, a feature to streamline community-driven blogs. You can enable it from your blog’s Customize screen to let your readers submit posts via web or email.

staff.tumblr.com: Introducing: Submissions (via Download Squad)

Tested this out on Blog Oklahoma's Tumblr. Easy to turn on.



You'll need to provide a link on your site somewhere if you want to use this feature. Example: http://blogoklahoma.tumblr.com/submit.

Your readers can submit the typical Tumblr posts. (links, text, pictures, videos, etc...). Submissions are queued up for approval by a moderator, so no worries about someone posting something unwanted. There's a link to the submissions queue in your dashboard.



I'm going to leave Submissions on our Tumblr for a little while so you can view the Submissions form. I probably won't approve anything for posting. This is just so you can see this feature.

BTW: Did you see all the new themes Tumblr has? Some really nice ones. I'm changing out theme to one of these new ones.