The Peace Corps followed the General Services Administration sanction in deciding to join Tumblr. General Services Administration is setup at USA.gov as a Tumblog. A social media contractor for USA.gov, told The Daily Caller “We had to negotiate a different terms of service for government employees. By doing that, we opened the door for the State Department, and the Peace Corps, and the National Archives to come in and do their thing.”
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The digital files are easy to find and read, according to ReadWriteWeb, which added that the ability to zoom into images and to pan through the archives’ holdings will be added during 2011.
