I’m excited to announce that David Karp, the founder of blogging platform Tumblr, will be the featured speaker at the July 22 meeting of the Digital Publishing Group. Due to the success he’s achieved at a young age, Karp has become known as something of a “boy wonder.” As the New York Observer put it in their 2008 profile:

“Even in a world of Internet business precocity, Mr. Karp’s trajectory stands out. He started interning for the animation producer Fred Seibert when he was 14…soon, an employee of Mr. Seibert’s put him in touch with the owners of UrbanBaby, where he saved enough money to allow him to go to Japan….And when UrbanBaby sold to CNET in July 2006, Mr. Karp was able to cash out the sweat equity he’d built up.

“By the time Mr. Karp was 19, a new word had entered the lexicon: “tumblelog,” which referred to short-form blogging…Mr. Karp says he ‘kept waiting’ for one of the established blog platform players to set up a platform for tumblelogging. When, after a year, that hadn’t happened, Mr. Karp decided to do it himself.”

We can’t wait to hear David’s thoughts on the digital world.

The Digital Publishing Group is an industry group designed to educate, inspire, and empower publishing professionals to take advantage of the digital space. The group holds monthly events featuring talks by leaders in the digital realm. All industry professionals (and aspiring professionals), including publishers, agents, authors, bloggers, service providers, and booksellers are welcome to attend.

The Digital Publishing Group is sponsored by DailyLit (www.dailylit.com). Previous events have featured Debbie Stier, SVP and Associate Publisher of HarperStudio (co-sponsored by the Book Industry Study Group), Gail Glickman Horwood, SVP, Digital Programming & Strategy at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and Neelan Choksi, CEO of Lexcycle/Stanza. For more information, visit the Digital Publishing Group’s site on Meetup.

• Posted on 17 July, 2009
  by susan
• Category
  Digital Publishing Group, Publicity, Service