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What the Pin
is Pinterest?PINTEREST
WHAT IS PINTEREST, NO REALLY, WHAT IS IT?
An area to find (and save!) all the things that inspire you.
A Visual Discovery Tool.
(Think bookmarking website but with visual organization)
A website that will suck away hours of my life.
( I will try to help save you time on Pinterest)
Where to
find what
and how to
do that
with this…
TOUR OF PINTEREST
PROFILE PAGE
FEED
PROFILE MENU
NOTIFICATIONS
SEARCH MENU (BEFORE 3-5)
NEW MENU (AS OF 3-5)
NEW MENU (BOTTOM)
CREATING A BOARD
CREATING A BOARD
INSIDE THE BOARD
WHAT’S IN A PIN?
DOUBLE CLICK ON A PIN
BELOW THE PIN
MORE ABOUT PINS
PINNING (!!!)
PINS (!!)
UPLOADING A PIN
PICK AN IMAGE
PICK A BOARD
PINNING FROM A WEBSITE
PIN FROM A SITE
CHOOSING PIN FROM A SITE
PIN TO A BOARD
PINNING FROM THE FEED
HOVER
PICK A BOARD
FINDING THE SEARCH MENU
SEARCH MENU
GARDENING :)
HOW TO SEARCH
SEARCH BOARDS
FOLLOWING, ITS LIKE FRIEND-ING, KIND OF
WICOMICO PUBLIC LIBRARY
SOMERSET COUNTY LIBRARY
CAROLINE COUNTY
Follow pinners/boards with a lot of followers or similar interests
See what other libraries are doing on Pinterest
Recycle their pins
Content is ready and at your fingertips
Will give you content to keep the masses happy so you have more time to make your original content.
We don’t need to duplicate work
HOW WILL THIS SAVE ME TIME?
Make a Board called LIBRARY
Search Pinterest for a Library to follow
Find a board you like from this Library and follow it
Repin something that inspires you from this board
NOW YOU TRY!
Know Your
UsersDEMOGRAPHICS
Double check the source of the content, you don ’t want it
going back to someone’s tumbler page (or worse!)
Patrons don ’t need an account to view pins!
If you are trying to fil l a need in your library, add aisle cards
in the area that corresponding books would be to let patrons
know they can find more information on that topic online.
OTHER THOUGHTS
Gender and
overal l SM
users
A ge, th is one is
interest ing
Urbanity
Race/Ethnici ty
Educat ion
Income