#Pintermission Invites. How Do People Use Pinterest? If the hot little collage site boggles your mind, take a look at how some people are using Pinterest.
Describe Pinterest to a savvy Web user who hasn't tried it before, you might hear this response: "So, it's basically the same as Delicious? " Both Delicious and Pinterest are places where you can save, mark, classify, and store stuff you find online. Both sites have social capabilities built-in, letting you see, comment on, and borrow the things other people save, and vice versa. But Delicious is for bookmarking anything you find online, while Pinterest is for primarily for images (videos, too, but images are more prevalent).
Visual collages versus bookmarks—that's the first big difference. To Pin or Not to Pin: An in-depth look at Pinterest. Like many, I’m new to the social network Pinterest.
It intrigued me after reading many articles about it being the fastest growing social network, so I set out to uncover the business case for using it. Because I’m a social media marketer, and business owner, it’s important that I squeeze every bit of visibility potential out of the various networks if I’m going to spend any time there. To learn more, I enlisted a friend and pin-wild owner of the boutique Sueb.do Susan Goldberg Zimmerman to give me the guided tour.
Susan was a great teacher, showing me all of the beautiful images she collected of places she wished to visit and the products she has in her store. I asked her what the business use was and she said that she looks at the images as an introduction to the person as to whether or not she wants to follow them or perhaps do business with them. As I mentioned, my mission was to find a business case to use the network so, I had to get back on task. Some of the pointers they gave: Chobani Yogurt Tickles The Tastes Of Pinterest Addicts, And So Can Your Brand. Emily Schildt, Chobani’s digital communications manager, continues to be in awe of how many surprisingly rhapsodic tweets and Facebook comments she’s read from devotees of the Greek yogurt brand.
“We call it ‘flavor Turettes’ in-house," she quips. “We get about a tweet per minute, and I would say 50% are about our newest flavor, apple cinnamon.” But regular declarations of love for the dairy treat didn’t end there. Schildt started noticing that fans were “pinning” images of the yogurt and recipes on the most of-the-moment social sharing network, Pinterest. Schildt admits that Chobani isn’t out to make a land grab on every new social media platform. Don't get caught: 17 things you can pin on Pinterest that are not pillows and dresses.
Have you tried Pinterest?
It's the new darling of social media and you need an invitation to join (I have some if you'll email me at info[at]dontgetcaught[dot]biz.) You'll hear some folks dismissing or buttonholing this system of virtually "pinning" visuals to topical "boards" so others can share, like or comment on them.
"It's just for 20-year-old women who want to collect pics of wedding dresses they'll never wear" or "just for middle-aged women clipping imaginary decorating projects they'll never do" are the more unkind ones I've heard. Even luminaries like Chris Brogan have said they just don't get it. Pinterest drives enormous blog and business success. Guest Post by {grow} community member Lauren Schaefer This is Kate.
She’s a hairstylist, jewelry maker, and all-around crafter based in North Carolina. Kate started her blog (thesmallthingsblog.com) exactly one year ago. Pinterest for Brands: 5 Hot Tips. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
Blog Guidebook: It's Pinterest, Not Brain Surgery - Part 1. About three years ago I think I invented Pinterest.
Of course, that was in my mind...it never actually came out and became anything, but I thought of the actual idea that it would be great to save all the photos and links in one place and call it something cute. Pinterest is a great name for this fun, organizational tool - but I would have called it something else, like: PinIt, DoggyBagIt, iLikeIt, MySaves etc... What's behind the Pinterest craze? 15 super-users share their thoughts.
It may be a niche social network, but Pinterest is growing like mad.
While other tools and networks like Quora, Instagram (my favorite) and Google Plus have stolen the headlines this year, Pinterest has quietly amassed a relatively huge user base–especially among young women (in my opinion). From October 2010 to October 2011 Pinterest grew from just 40,000 users to a whopping 3.2 million. That’s some serious growth.
But, not only is Pinterest adding thousands of users each month. Its users are also spending an inordinate amount of time on the site. But WHY is the site so damn popular? Kary Delaria. Can You Use Pinterest To Drive Traffic? 7 Ways Journalists Can Use Pinterest. Pinterest for Brands: 5 Hot Tips. Pinterest Plugin for WordPressPinterest Plugin for WordPress. Pin It On Pinterest. Pin It On Pinterest places a "Pin It" button at the end of your posts, and allows you to predetermine what gets "Pinned" at Pinterest.
Spawned by the idea of Jamie Swanson of The Modern Tog and developed by William Bay of Flaunt Your Site. Pinterest is one of 2011's fastest growing websites, with the potential for substantial amounts of traffic from users reviewing the Pins that users have posted. Simply install it, and you will find a new form underneath your Post Editor where you can fill in: Description.An image to associate the post with. When you've added both the description and image, you can publish your post, and you will have a new Pin This button under your blog post.
Pinterest Tutorial: Getting Started. You know how you always see something somewhere and then you try to find it and you can't.
Story of my life and since the Momnesia has set in, it isn't any easier. The Internet is filled with ideas, tricks-of-the-trade, shortcuts, recipes, learning possibilities, Do-It-Yourself projects and oh so much more. Gone are the days of bookmarks that are comprised of long lists of website names that mean nothing to us. And for those who lean toward the OCD side of organization, we tried to create folders for those streaming lists of text to compartmentalize a little. Now there is Pinterest. The next step is to grab the button they provide and to drag it to your bookmarks bar. Important note: See how it mentions that it will "credit the original creator"? 2. 3.
Pinterest Intellectual Property & Copyright. I’m a huge fan of Pinterest. In fact, its co-head cheese, Ben Silbermann, is a Des Moines, Iowa native – so I’m always rooting for the local guy. And in the 2011 whirlwind growth pattern that Pinterest experienced, it catapulted itself as my #1 referrer by such a margin that the #2, #3 and #4 referrers combined still don’t equal the number of hits I get from Pinterest. If you’re not sharing content and receiving traffic from Pinterest, you are missing a huge viral opportunity. But in its rapid growth, there are some issues Pinterest has failed to address. Can Pinterest continue to allow free reign in over-sharing?
The answer is no. Here’s the problem: Blogger, let’s call her Jane, writes a post. Pinning her content is a wonderful way to help propagate her efforts. Mom Bloggers Pick Pinterest Over Google+ – 5 Minutes For Mom. Google+ entered the social media space with huge expectations and lots of media attention. How to add a PinIt Button to post - Mommy Words. I am super obsessed with Pinterest right now. It is the perfect pick me up and a way to stay inspired and fueled with a million great ideas for my life, my home, my kids and my kitchen.
5 Ways to Use Pinterest as a Community Building Tool. Everyone is talking about Pinterest, the social “pinning” site used to share, well, anything. It’s a little early to say, but judging by the buzz (and the amount of people posting about Pinterest on their blogs), it has a good chance of becoming the top social site for 2012 and perhaps the next big thing. Pinterest is different from your Facebook, Twitter or Google plus because it’s not about posting a sentence or paragraph in hopes of starting a conversation. Instead, folks post images of things that interest them and that’s what gets the conversation started. At this point, most of the people I follow on Pinterest are talking about food, fashion and home, but the sky is the limit. Pinterest is giving us an opportunity to share our interests and find other people who enjoy the same. Talk of the Parent Blogosphere, Pinterest Obsessed Edition.
This has been a week filled with blogger buzz about Pinterest, the rapidly growing social bookmarking/virtual pinboard site. Here at Type-A Parent, I had a post with Pinterest beginner tips and my Pinterest profile linkup was very popular (it is at 217 profiles submitted and rising). I am also so excited to announce I will be writing Pinterest For Dummies! I have seen a bunch of posts about Pinterest in just the last week. (Also, as a side note, talk of the Parent Blogosphere will run on Mondays now. I discovered that getting it done in the middle of the weekend for Saturday publication was interfering with my having a life.) Pinterest: 13 Tips and Tricks for Cutting Edge Users. Why and How Nonprofits Should Use Pinterest. The Art and Power of Pinterest (guide for brands and others) Remember those ‘vision boards’ we were all making a few years back after reading The Secret? You know, back when we believed if we envisioned WHAT we wanted it would come true if we just BELIEVED. 5 Pinterest Tips for Beginners.
Seven Cool Ways to Use Pinterest.