The newest form of Social BookmarkingTara Mueller

What is Pinterest?

•Social Bookmarking Site

•Allows users to pin pictures to their pin board more commonly known as the users wall

•Link to sites where consumers can buy products or learn to make them

•Many of the sites pictures link to are blogs where people talk about crafts or food

What is the Homepage?

•All of the pictures your friends pin to their boards

•Listed in chronological order

•After logging in on the homepage you will see your friends most recent pins

•Allows you to see what your friends like in one page rather than going from profile to profile

The Pinterest hompage

Pinterest Profile

•An example of the profile set up by any user

•As many pin boards can be added or removed at any time

•You become friends with someone by following their pin boards

Pinterest profile page

Pinning Pictures

•When you see a picture you want to add to your profile scroll over the picture and click Repin

•You will then see the second screen where you can choose which board to pin it on and add a new caption if you choose

•Simply click Pin It and your done

•Similar to Twitter you are able to mention people when putting a caption under a picture

New Pins

•You can add new pins or pictures from any website

•On your Pinterest site simply click the Add button in the upper right corner

•You are then able to Add a Pin, Upload a Pin from your computer or Create a new Board

•When adding a pin drop the URL in the bar and it will pull all of the pictures from the site. Choose the picture and board and add a comment.

•Simply click pin it and you are done

Searching

•There are many topics to search on Pinterest

•You can search for things according to your personal interest

•Scroll over everything and the drop down menu will appear

•You can search specific topics in the search bar at the top of the page

The interest categories

There are many other social bookmarking sites. A few are explained in the next few slides.

•Stumble Upon•Generates random sites according to your interest•With Stumble Upon simply click Stumble Your Interest•Stumble Upon has a tool bar that is on the top of each webpage•You can like or dislike a page and click stumble when you are done with a page and you will be taken to a new page

•Delicious•Create stacks filled with information on a particular topic

•Can create as many stacks as needed

•How To Create Stacks•Newsvine

•Generates news stories•Digg

•Create groupings of topics

•RSS Feed of top news or topics

•Trip Advisor•Advice about traveling

•Angie’s List•Advice about businesses specifically doctors and service businesses

•Urban Spoon•Generates random restaurants to eat at according to location, amount of money and type of food you choose.

•Igoogle or Google Reader•MyYahoo!

Oh, How Pinteresting!

•Pinterest has a blog that discusses anything that has to do with Pinterest. They use this to communicate with users.•Topic Categories include:

•Pinterviews•Site Features & Tips•Pinteresting Trends•Guest Post•Events

•They talk about how you can use Pinterest and how other people use it.•If you are new to Pinterest this can be a great resource.

The Blog Stylist

•This blog post discusses how bloggers need to be adding the Pinterest pin it button to their blog

•This can be beneficial to bloggers because more people will visit their blog due to liking pictures from their blog

•She discusses not only how to add the button to your blog but how to use it and how to use Pinterest as a whole.

•The Backlight blog also does the same thing on their blog.

•Click the links to see tutorials of Pinterest

•Pinterest Tutorial•Blogging Bookshelf

•Pinterest is a great way to share things you love with your friends•You can link to sites that you find interesting •You can learn how to make things that you find pictures of including crafts, food and more•Takes Facebook sharing to the next level •Have fun Pinning!