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20 Awesome Pinterest Tools

20 Awesome Pinterest Tools
Pinterest already offers users some great tools to help them get their accounts get noticed, including a Follow Button and Pin It button which can easily be installed on any website. But with such an active community, it’s no surprise that there are a ton of other interesting tools, apps, and sites which aim to enhance the Pinterest experience. WordPress plugins, Pinterest analytics, cool Pinterest layouts and hacks, and mobile access – Pinterest’s vibrant community has pretty much left no stone unturned. We’ve put together a list of 20 of these tools, in no particular order. Add the Pinterest plugin to your WordPress blog There are several options for adding a Pinterest button to your WordPress blog. The Pinterest Pin it Button plugin automatically places a Pin It button at the bottom of all of your posts – old and new. Add a Pinterest Follow Me button to your signature A second option Wisestamp offers is to simply add a Pinterest button alongside your other social profile icons.

Pingram Founder: Why I Mashed Up Pinterest and Instagram If you're a fan of Instagram and Pinterest, then get ready to fall in love with Pingram. Modeled after Pinterest, the site allows you to view Instagram photos in the same way you might browse through pins on Pinterest. Mashable spoke to Italian web developer Gennaro Varriale, who created the mashup in just over seven hours one weekend. “I love Instagram and use it frequently," Varriale told Mashable. "I also use Pinterest and I love collecting photos in boards. While I was searching [for] a way to pin my Instagram photo, I got this idea — A simple way to share Instagram photos with a clean interface, similar to Pinterest inside a vanity url page.” Much like on Instagram, you can browse through the photos of people you're following on Pingram and check out a feed of the top photos of the moment. Pinterest has been under fire recently for allowing the distribution of copyrighted content, and in response allowed websites to block content from being pinned.

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Pinterest - The Social Media Darling Of 2012: Infographic 15 Weird &Unusual Bed Designs 15 Weird & Unusual Bed Designs People don’t want to just have a good night’s sleep these days. That isn’t enough. Comfortable? Sure, that’s a quality that’s sought after when shopping for a bed. But more importantly, for some people? If you’re not planning on having any normal dates anytime soon into your bedroom, you might find what you’re looking for. Tennis (???) Hamburger Bed Doesn’t look very comfortable, but you know what you’re going to be dreaming about at night. The Exactly One Position Bed For Those With Long Extremities The Bed in a Barrel Bed in a Pod Sexy Girl not included. Concrete Sewage Pipes Dream Bed Jaws Bed Indescribable Bed Equipped with height, depth and camouflage. Couch Into Two Storey Bed The Mousetrap Bed Doesn’t look safe enough to actually sleep in. Entertainment Bed Creepy Hay Bed The Tree Bed Locked-In Bed If you’re running an insane asylum, or maybe you’re Jabba the Hutt, this is the bed for you.

Using Pinterest Yet? 13 Tips for Gaining Business Exposure for Your Clients As public relations practitioners, we need to be ahead of the curve and make sure that our clients appear on appropriate social networking sites in order to gain brand awareness and exposure. It's simple, really. So when I saw dozens of requests from clients, business associates and friends asking me to join the site, I was intrigued. Pinterest is a new social networking site that enables you to have your own online bulletin board where you can “pin” stuff you like or want to keep. It's easy to use but, like most other social networking sites, it can take several hours to prepare bulletin boards and pin relevant photos. To make it easy, Pinterest developed a “Pin It” tool that you can drag to your Web browser desktop. On my Pinterest page, I have several boards, including: "things I love to do," "social media," "books I enjoyed reading" and "music I enjoy listening to." It really is about that personal connection. Here are some tips to get your client business exposure on Pinterest:

Unique Steampunk Insects Since the late 1990′s style steampunk is becoming more and more popular, and not only in the literature. Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by enthusiasts into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical “steampunk” style. And often this stylization gives very unexpected results. Pinterest Infographics Reveal Marketing Potential The good folks at Modea, a branding and technology agency from Blacksburg, VA, produced this Pinteresting infographic on important Pinterest demographics. (say it five times, fast) Pinteresting.jpg” title=”Very Pinteresting” class=”aligncenter” width=”616″ height=”821″ /> You’ll notice that the majority (68.2%) of users are women. Pinterest could be the fastest growing social media site out there, with a 2,702.2% increase in traffic since last year. The most interesting thing is the marketing implications this information presents. 28.1% of users have an annual household income exceeding $100,000. 50% of them have children. Retailers are seeing a huge increase in referral traffic from the site, with a 289% increase from July – Dec. last year, and the amount of traffic is over twice that of LinkedIn, Google+, and YouTube combined. Another infographic from LinchpinSEO shows the ways in which Businesses are marketing on Pinterest: Pinterest Infographics Reveal Marketing Potential

Earthbag Construction EarthBag Homes - you're standing on the building materials... earthbag home Long sandbags are filled on-site and arranged in layers or as compressed coils. Stabilizers such as cement, lime, or sodium carbonate may be added to an ideal mix of 70% sand, 30% clay. Straw may also be added. earthbag home Plastic bags recycled into plastic bags -- if plastic does not break down for a thousand years, this building is sure to last several lifetimes. earthbag construction Foundations differ as per site. earthbag construction The time consuming part, filling the bags. earthbag construction Testing the strength of an arch. earthbag home Project Seres, Guatemala. projectseres.org, flickr.com earthbag home CalEarth -- Emergency Shelter Village, Hesperia, California. earthbag home Cal Earth -- Emergency Shelters. earthbag home CalEarth let the layers show. CalEarth -- this might not be totally earthbag, but like the fish face. earthbag home CalEarth photo by Mike Smith flickr.com Resources: Lessons:

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