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5 étapes pour améliorer votre profil Pinterest en 5 minutes | Freewares. Pinterest. 21 Signs That Pinterest Has Made Your Girlfriend Crazy And Unstable. Oh, How Pinteresting! How Pinterest Will Transform the Web in 2012: Social Content Curation As The Next Big Thing. The most interesting wave hitting the social web in 2012 is social curation. This was kicked off in 2011 as Pinterest's growth was noticed by Silicon Valley and a number of companies quickly followed suit - Snip.It launched as a social information curation platform, Quora adopted boards for a similar purpose, and Fab.com launched a structured social commerce feed.

In this blog post I will discuss the evolution of social media from long-form to push-button, the emergence of social curation on sites such as Twitter and Tumblr, and the move to structured sets of curated content on Pinterest and its brethren. But first, the meta-trend.... ...Social Media: Evolving From Long Form To Push Button In the evolution of social media over the last decade, the trend has been a move from long form content, which has high friction of participation (both on the production and consumption side) to ever lower requirements placed on a user to participate in a conversation. Why Pinterest Could Point To the End Of Twitter (Opinion) You’ve probably heard of the new social bookmarking experience Pinterest – but are you aware of just how it can change the current landscape of the Internet? As things stand, large companies like Google and Facebook are cosying up to their users, intent on becoming a fixture of the World Wide Web and being de facto choices for users for search and social networking.

Google is even keen on moving into the social side via Google+, although this is really little more than a competent exercise in data mining. Traditional social bookmarking services such as Digg and the dominant method of sharing links, Twitter, are both at risk from the polished presentation and simple features of Pinterest. In fact, Twitter could be seriously at risk from this new service. Pinterest is More Powerful Than Digg Yet these services are very Web 1.0, designed for a time before smartphones and tablets.

Pinterest Is Not Another Google+ Pinterest requires little in the way of personal information. Discover, collect and share your inspirations. PINTEREST. Pinterest. 13 'Pinteresting' Facts About Pinterest Users [INFOGRAPHIC] It's no secret that the Internet loves Pinterest. Now, most users are even spending more time, on average, pinning than they are on hanging out on Facebook. Here's what you need to know about Pinterest user demographics. With an average of 1.36 million users daily, the social photo pinboard has taken the web by storm, and top online retailers are following suit.

Who are these feverish pinners? According to full service agency Modea, the majority are female mothers — 28 percent have a household income of $100k+. SEE ALSO: 10 Most-Followed Users on Pinterest Using stats from comScore and a few other analyses, full service agency Modea has put a few interesting facts about Pinterest into visual form with this infographic. Hot On Pinterest: 5 Pinners To Follow Now.

Pinterest, The Fancy and the Photo Funnel. Top 10 Alternatives to Pinterest. There is certainly no denying the ever-growing popularity of Pinterest. With over 2.5 million users participating in the beta, Pinterest provides a new and unique way to discover and share the web. This growing popularity has, of course, spawned numerous sites that utilize a variety of Pinterest elements. If Pinterest doesn’t seem to be quite what you need, you might consider trying one of the many alternatives. Whether it’s a “manlier” alternative like Gentlemint or a specific niche like tech-centric Curisma, you are sure to be able to find something up your alley. Gentlemint The front page of Pinterest definitely doesn’t scream masculinity, so “manly” alternatives are always arising. Price: Free Developer: Brisky Business, LLC AppStorm Review: Gentlemint: Pinterest for Men We Heart It While Pinterest is popular with a variety of ages, teens are not really its target audience.

Price: Free Developer: We Heart It, Inc. Knack Registry Price: Free Developer: Knack Registry Jux Image Spark Chill. Helpful tips. PINTEREST. A little Pinterest in your Instagram | Pinstagram. 5 Crucial Steps for Marketing Success on Pinterest. Pinterest is no longer invite-only, so if you don’t have an account, there is no better day than today to sign up. Here are five crucial steps to take to ensure Pintrest becomes a successful marketing activity for your brand. Step 1: Create your product boards with subletly A great example of subtle product board on Pinterest comes from Express.com. They are using Pinterest to help launch a new fragrance. Add a description to your Pinterest board to set the tone.

The board itself does not only include product shots of the fragrance. Placed strategically within those lifestyle images is a product shot that links back to the website where it can be purchased: Example of a board where the product pin is subtly added among lifestyle pictures. This is a subtle but effective way to do marketing on Pinterest. Step 2: Search by your URL After setting up your account and creating your boards, you should filter pin results by the URL of your website. Simply go to www.pinterest.com/source/YourURL. The 10 Most-Followed Men on Pinterest.

When you think of Pinterest, what kind of user comes to mind? If you answered "a woman who likes crafts and chocolate," you're not alone. However, men represent an influential presence on the social network, too. In fact, 10 out of the top 45 Pinterest users are men. Who knew? We utilized social analytics tool ZoomSphere to determine the most-followed men on Pinterest. SEE ALSO: How Pinterest’s Female Audience Is Changing Social Marketing Do you think more men will join the Pinterest craze?

Pinterest Use Is On The Rise: Here's Everything You Need To Know About The Internet's New Darling. NEW YORK — Oh, you pretty things. Just look at the mama giraffe nuzzling a baby giraffe, that lovely idea for an indoor planter made of mason jars and those perfectly cooked bacon strips cooling on a plate. This is what people are circulating on Pinterest, the latest website-of-the-moment for sharing things you love. Clean and simple to use, Pinterest attracts people who need to organize the chaos of Internet-age information overload. It serves as an online scrapbook of images they find on the Web, a place to post fashion inspirations, decorating aspirations and more.

The site's popularity has exploded in recent months, making it one of the fastest-growing websites in history. What makes Pinterest's surge unusual is that it's driven not by the usual geek crowd of young men from New York and San Francisco, but by women, many of whom live in the Midwest and the central U.S. Angela Bitz, a secretary at a hospital in Davenport, Iowa, says she was drawn by the site's layout and ease of use. Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Retailers [INFOGRAPHIC] Pinterest, a two-year-old social bookmarking site that lets users collect and share things they like on the web, is driving increasingly significant amounts of traffic to retailers' websites.

The service enables users to create online bulletin boards, or "pinboards," for popular categories such as home decor, food and wedding inspiration. Members can use Pinterest's "Pin It" bookmarklet tool and iPhone app to save things they see online and offline, and explore and repin the images their friends collect via their personal newsfeeds. The website is especially popular among women, who account for 58% of Pinterest's traffic, according to Experian Hitwise. SEE ALSO: 21 Must-Follow Pinterest Users The site's popularity is quickly growing. Pinterest's traffic increased more than fourfold between September 2011 and December 2011, bringing in 7.51 million unique visitors in December alone, data from Compete indicates.

[via Monetate] Pinterest. Pinterest Directory, Find Top Pinners, Popular Boards, and Trending Pins. 5 Food Brands Building Social Buzz on a Budget. Bob Marshall is a social media strategist for SociaLogic Marketing. SociaLogic provides social media strategy, community management, and content development for clients in the food, CPG, and automotive categories. Follow him @Bob_SociaLogic. By now, most brands are rightly viewing social media as an integral piece of their overall marketing strategy.

However, many still hold the incorrect notion that injecting more money into social media is the only way to build and nurture an online fan base. In reality, there are several standout social media marketing tactics that can mobilize an enthusiastic audience while remaining cost effective, and the food industry has consistently been a leader in this department. SEE ALSO: 8 Best Practices for Food Brands on Pinterest The most successful brands are discovering three truths about social media marketing. Here are five food brands that prove a company can build social media buzz without draining the marketing budget. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

8 Best Practices for Food Brands on Pinterest. Janet Helm is the chief food and nutrition strategist of North America for Weber Shandwick. She is the author of the blog Nutrition Unplugged and co-founder of the Nutrition Blog Network and Healthy Aperture. She has been a contributor to Cooking Light magazine and is currently partnering on a book with Cooking Light. Pinterest has become the fastest growing website ever, now with nearly 12 million monthly users. The site illustrates the evolution from the “social graph” to the “interest graph” – or the shift from friend-based networks to those that connect people based on their shared interests. Food is one of the major niches or shared interests on Pinterest. In fact, food lovers were among the first on Pinterest; they saw the benefits of pinning instead of clipping recipes. These foodies used boards to plan dinner parties, collect holiday baking ideas, and create their own virtual cookbooks.

Not surprisingly, food bloggers have also become Pinterest power users. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Pinterest.