2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. •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
10. •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!
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. •Click the links to see tutorials of Pinterest
•Pinterest Tutorial
•Blogging Bookshelf
14. •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!
