Creators' Freedom Project

Empowering Creators to Take Control of Their Own Business by Leveraging their Core Skillset — Creativity

A project to understand the needs of creators, highlight and experiment with replicate-able models that help independent artists make a living from their creativity. We'll explore the use of a number of online and tech tools and offerings of scarce goods & unique experiences to discover fans and the merchandise / performances that they want.

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Tumblr, which is basically halfway between a blogging platform and Twitter, allows users to post photos, videos, and text. Critically, it also allows users to “follow” each other and “re-blog” the posts of others.

The latter concepts, which Twitter has also capitalized on with amazing success (through “following” and “re-tweets”), inserts reblogged posts into each user’s timeline stream. Thus, anyone who “follows” a user, also sees the re-blogged posts.

This turns Tumblr users into editors and curators in addition to content creators.

Tumblr Blows Past 15 Billion Pageviews Per Month, Thumbing Nose At Old Media Thinking As It Goes

Tumblr an amazing free tool (blog or website replacement) that lets others spread the word about your art. The barriers to posting content — written word, photo, video, repost of someone else’s post— are incredibly low. No other blogging platform is as easily syndicatable and spreadable as tumblr.

CFP runs on Tumblr.

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