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Pinterest is a social media site where users pin images to boards and other users can click on the images to be directed to related websites. As a visual medium, images are more likely to attract clicks from users than plain text links. For bloggers, having an active Pinterest account with pins related to their blog topics can help drive additional traffic to their sites by exposing their content and brand to more potential readers in a visually appealing format. Pinterest currently sees a high volume of traffic and, while it may be a fading trend, it is worth exploring as a new promotional tool for bloggers.
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The document provides instructions for setting up accounts and using popular social media and social media management platforms including Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, Twitter, and Hootsuite. It describes the sign-up processes for each platform and basic functions for posting, sharing content, and analyzing engagement. Hootsuite allows users to connect multiple social accounts to schedule and analyze posts in one place.
This document provides an introduction to Pinterest, including what Pinterest is, common user stats, and how to use some of Pinterest's core features. It explains that Pinterest is a social media site for sharing visual bookmarks called Pins across different topic-specific boards. It also outlines how to find Pins by following others, use the search feature, create boards and profiles to organize saved content, and interact with other Pinterest users.
Pinterest clone is a social media platform that allows users to upload, save, and share images and other media content. It has features for users to create boards to organize pins into categories, follow other users, like and comment on pins. The document provides details on the various features of the Pinterest clone platform, including profiles, boards, pins, notifications, and account settings.
Making money with facebook using ppd (down cash)bart84571
This document provides instructions for making money using Facebook and the Pay-Per-Download (PPD) website DownCash. It discusses creating Facebook pages and groups focused on specific niches to attract followers. It then recommends posting links to monetizable content like blogs 2-3 times per day on these pages/groups to generate downloads and earnings through PPD programs. Specific niches suggested are teenage interests like celebrities. The guide stresses choosing accurate niche-focused topics to engage followers and avoid spamming.
Pinterest is a social media site where users pin images to boards and other users can click on the images to be directed to related websites. As a visual medium, images are more likely to attract clicks from users than plain text links. For bloggers, having an active Pinterest account with pins related to their blog topics can help drive additional traffic to their sites by exposing their content and brand to more potential readers in a visually appealing format. Pinterest currently sees a high volume of traffic and, while it may be a fading trend, it is worth exploring as a new promotional tool for bloggers.
Social Media for Bloggers - Em Cortez- #CDOBlogWorkshop organized by the CDOBloggers, Inc. last November 29 at Jia Cha Cafe, Divisoria Arcade, Cagayan de Oro.
So much internets, so little time!
All you need to know about the oh-so-trendy photo-sharing social network, Pinterest to sell it to your clients in 28 slides.
Pinterest - Colonizing the Web's Inspiration PlatformBBDO
Since its launch in March 2010, Pinterest has grown faster than any other social network in the US, including Facebook and Twitter. Now with nearly 50 million users worldwide, the site has nurtured a devoted and highly engaged user base. People a...
The document provides instructions for setting up accounts and using popular social media and social media management platforms including Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, Twitter, and Hootsuite. It describes the sign-up processes for each platform and basic functions for posting, sharing content, and analyzing engagement. Hootsuite allows users to connect multiple social accounts to schedule and analyze posts in one place.
Delicious is a social bookmarking website that allows users to save, organize, and share bookmarks of web pages. Some key features include bookmarklets that allow one-click saving of pages, a clean interface, mobile apps, and the ability to follow other users with similar interests. Delicious helps users organize content they find online, archive information from the internet, discover new sites, and track hot topics through its collective intelligence. It also allows users to keep track of backlinks, connect with others, and share bookmarks publicly or privately.
Everything you wanted to know about Pinterest.
Including:
How the idea came about, What’s the big deal?, Stats, facts and demographics, Getting started, What are people pinning?, It’s not just imagery
Some of the more unusual uses, What else can I do?, Which brands are using it?, How are they?
Pinning on the move, Extending the experience off platform, Key take-outs
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This document provides an overview of the social media platform Pinterest, including key statistics about its users and how businesses can utilize it. Some of the key points covered include:
- Pinterest allows users to visually share and curate interests through images and videos called "pins".
- It has over 12 million unique visitors per month and is particularly effective for businesses to showcase products and stories through photos.
- The majority of users are women between the ages of 25-34.
- The document outlines best practices for how businesses can leverage visual content and their website on Pinterest to drive traffic and search engine optimization.
Pinterest for Business, tips on how to use this ever growing social media phenomena for your business success. Lessons on how to 'pin', what to pin, and best practices for your company.
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The document provides information about Pinterest, including its growth and demographics. It states that Pinterest hit 10 million US monthly unique visitors faster than any other independent site. Daily active users have increased 145% since early 2012, and it is now the 3rd most popular social network in the US. The majority (80%) of Pinterest users are women. The document also provides tips for setting up a profile and pinning on Pinterest as a brand, including using keywords and linking pins back to your website. It discusses generating traffic and adhering to copyright by crediting sources.
The document provides research on audience interests and existing social media platforms and products that are popular among the 16-24 age demographic. It analyzes the audiences, content topics, and design features of Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, Squid Game, Love Island, and Spider-Man to understand what resonates with the target age group. Colour schemes, fonts, logos, and a proof of concept Instagram profile are developed based on the research. A mood board is also created with ideas for including social media links, events calendar, and forum discussions on the planned website.
This proposal outlines Jessica Crosland's project focusing on creating a website for a swipe match app targeting 16-24 year olds. She will focus on print design and production. Her tasks include researching the target audience, exploring interests and existing apps, developing content and a logo in Photoshop, building the website using Wix, tracking progress in a reflective diary, and evaluating the final project. She aims to understand how to attract and understand her target demographic through audience research and an engaging design.
The document provides an overview of various social media techniques that can be used, beginning tonight. It recommends starting a blog to explore your passions and improve writing skills. It also recommends setting up profiles on LinkedIn for professional networking and Facebook, but keeping activities professional. Twitter is suggested for following interesting people and organizations, as well as retweeting content. Additional techniques covered include using photos, video, mobile apps, analytics and building an online community. The key requirement highlighted is having a genuine passion for the topic being shared on social media.
This document discusses a student's Web 2.0 project about true crime books. The student is using blogging, Facebook, and MySpace to write about and discuss books they are reading. The project involves planning, recording experiences using these tools in a blog, reflecting on progress in a wiki, and participating in other online discussions. So far, the student has learned that old and new media can work together and that maintaining a blog takes effort but connects people with shared interests.
This document provides an overview of how to use Pinterest effectively for marketing purposes. It discusses that Pinterest has over 100 million users, many of whom are women, and is still growing rapidly. While initially designed for sharing visual inspiration, the document outlines several ways marketers can benefit from Pinterest, including driving traffic to websites and blogs, promoting products through pins that allow direct purchases, and analyzing pin performance data from business accounts. The key is creating engaging boards around topics that appeal to target audiences and using features like links and rich pins to promote content and sales.
This tutorial shows how to use Pinterest to create boards for sharing educational resources with students. Teachers can post lesson materials, references, and allow students to ask questions and share insights publicly. Setting up an account is free using email or existing social media credentials. Teachers search for relevant topics to their subject, pin items to boards, and students can engage with the materials and each other's comments. While not education-specific, Pinterest is useful for organizing links, though non-educational content could also appear so parental discretion is advised.
This describes the basics to using and understanding Pinterest, including creating, using, and editing boards and pins, finding good content, and pinning etiquette.
Presentation is on Pinterest in which it includes all features, pins, boards, lens, analytics. This the best place to market everything just by uploading photos &videos. Always keep up with latest trends on the things you like. Connects with people who have same similar style and interest. Get inspire on what to buy. Pinterest is good for business and you will also find it interesting.
Follow on - https://www.digitalplatter.in/
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The document provides tips and strategies for using Pinterest effectively for authors. It discusses how to set up a Pinterest profile in 10 easy steps, including signing up, creating boards, and pinning content. It also lists 7 free tools that can help supercharge pinning on Pinterest, such as tools for creating pinnable images, tracking website traffic from Pinterest, and scheduling pins in advance. Finally, it lists 11 places authors can find free and legal photos to use on their blogs and websites.
Pinterest is a social media platform launched in 2010 that allows users to create and share collections of visual bookmarks called pins. It provides a way for consumers to plan future events and organize interests, while also serving as a free marketing tool for businesses. While Pinterest can be engaging and expose users to new products, it also risks becoming addictive and can leave some feeling disappointed when pins do not match reality or websites are no longer active. Overall, Pinterest facilitates the sharing of ideas globally and helps connect consumers to merchants in a mutually beneficial way.
Delicious is a social bookmarking website that allows users to save, organize, and share bookmarks of web pages. Some key features include bookmarklets that allow one-click saving of pages, a clean interface, mobile apps, and the ability to follow other users with similar interests. Delicious helps users organize content they find online, archive information from the internet, discover new sites, and track hot topics through its collective intelligence. It also allows users to keep track of backlinks, connect with others, and share bookmarks publicly or privately.
Everything you wanted to know about Pinterest.
Including:
How the idea came about, What’s the big deal?, Stats, facts and demographics, Getting started, What are people pinning?, It’s not just imagery
Some of the more unusual uses, What else can I do?, Which brands are using it?, How are they?
Pinning on the move, Extending the experience off platform, Key take-outs
This document is the table of contents for an eBook titled "Building the Framework: Everything I Learned My First Year of Blogging" by Abby Lawson. The eBook contains 8 parts that cover topics such as starting a blog, content creation, social media strategies, monetization, working with brands, and growing an email list. Each part contains multiple chapters that delve deeper into specific aspects of building a successful blog. The table of contents provides an overview of the eBook's structure and topics to be discussed.
This document provides an overview of the social media platform Pinterest, including key statistics about its users and how businesses can utilize it. Some of the key points covered include:
- Pinterest allows users to visually share and curate interests through images and videos called "pins".
- It has over 12 million unique visitors per month and is particularly effective for businesses to showcase products and stories through photos.
- The majority of users are women between the ages of 25-34.
- The document outlines best practices for how businesses can leverage visual content and their website on Pinterest to drive traffic and search engine optimization.
Pinterest for Business, tips on how to use this ever growing social media phenomena for your business success. Lessons on how to 'pin', what to pin, and best practices for your company.
The document provides an overview of Pinterest, including what it is, how users interact with it by uploading, pinning, and repinning images, and how businesses can use it. It discusses Pinterest analytics like usage demographics and user behavior. It also explains how businesses can apply Orsburn's Social Media Business Equation to Pinterest by informing, entertaining, and interacting with customers and converting them to sales. Both opportunities and challenges of using Pinterest for business are presented.
Supernova Media presents Pinterest 101. Includes do's and don'ts for business! Pinterest is a social photo sharing website and app where users can create and manage theme-based image collections in the format of a virtual pinboard. Pinterest drove more referral traffic to retailers than Linked In, You Tube and Google+ combined in January 2012.
The document provides information about Pinterest, including its growth and demographics. It states that Pinterest hit 10 million US monthly unique visitors faster than any other independent site. Daily active users have increased 145% since early 2012, and it is now the 3rd most popular social network in the US. The majority (80%) of Pinterest users are women. The document also provides tips for setting up a profile and pinning on Pinterest as a brand, including using keywords and linking pins back to your website. It discusses generating traffic and adhering to copyright by crediting sources.
The document provides research on audience interests and existing social media platforms and products that are popular among the 16-24 age demographic. It analyzes the audiences, content topics, and design features of Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, Squid Game, Love Island, and Spider-Man to understand what resonates with the target age group. Colour schemes, fonts, logos, and a proof of concept Instagram profile are developed based on the research. A mood board is also created with ideas for including social media links, events calendar, and forum discussions on the planned website.
This proposal outlines Jessica Crosland's project focusing on creating a website for a swipe match app targeting 16-24 year olds. She will focus on print design and production. Her tasks include researching the target audience, exploring interests and existing apps, developing content and a logo in Photoshop, building the website using Wix, tracking progress in a reflective diary, and evaluating the final project. She aims to understand how to attract and understand her target demographic through audience research and an engaging design.
The document provides an overview of various social media techniques that can be used, beginning tonight. It recommends starting a blog to explore your passions and improve writing skills. It also recommends setting up profiles on LinkedIn for professional networking and Facebook, but keeping activities professional. Twitter is suggested for following interesting people and organizations, as well as retweeting content. Additional techniques covered include using photos, video, mobile apps, analytics and building an online community. The key requirement highlighted is having a genuine passion for the topic being shared on social media.
This document discusses a student's Web 2.0 project about true crime books. The student is using blogging, Facebook, and MySpace to write about and discuss books they are reading. The project involves planning, recording experiences using these tools in a blog, reflecting on progress in a wiki, and participating in other online discussions. So far, the student has learned that old and new media can work together and that maintaining a blog takes effort but connects people with shared interests.
This document provides an overview of how to use Pinterest effectively for marketing purposes. It discusses that Pinterest has over 100 million users, many of whom are women, and is still growing rapidly. While initially designed for sharing visual inspiration, the document outlines several ways marketers can benefit from Pinterest, including driving traffic to websites and blogs, promoting products through pins that allow direct purchases, and analyzing pin performance data from business accounts. The key is creating engaging boards around topics that appeal to target audiences and using features like links and rich pins to promote content and sales.
This tutorial shows how to use Pinterest to create boards for sharing educational resources with students. Teachers can post lesson materials, references, and allow students to ask questions and share insights publicly. Setting up an account is free using email or existing social media credentials. Teachers search for relevant topics to their subject, pin items to boards, and students can engage with the materials and each other's comments. While not education-specific, Pinterest is useful for organizing links, though non-educational content could also appear so parental discretion is advised.
This describes the basics to using and understanding Pinterest, including creating, using, and editing boards and pins, finding good content, and pinning etiquette.
Presentation is on Pinterest in which it includes all features, pins, boards, lens, analytics. This the best place to market everything just by uploading photos &videos. Always keep up with latest trends on the things you like. Connects with people who have same similar style and interest. Get inspire on what to buy. Pinterest is good for business and you will also find it interesting.
Follow on - https://www.digitalplatter.in/
The busy author's guide to popularity and profit on pinterestBestsellerSociety
The document provides tips and strategies for using Pinterest effectively for authors. It discusses how to set up a Pinterest profile in 10 easy steps, including signing up, creating boards, and pinning content. It also lists 7 free tools that can help supercharge pinning on Pinterest, such as tools for creating pinnable images, tracking website traffic from Pinterest, and scheduling pins in advance. Finally, it lists 11 places authors can find free and legal photos to use on their blogs and websites.
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Pinterest is a visual social media platform where users can save or "pin" images, videos and other content to their boards on various topics. It has over 70 million active users worldwide who share over 5 million pins per day. Businesses can use Pinterest to showcase their products and services visually, driving traffic to their websites. Key engagement strategies for businesses include planning eye-catching visual content, searching for relevant pins to like and comment on, and pinning strategically at peak engagement times. Popular analytics and scheduling tools help optimize a business's Pinterest presence. Successful brand pages on Pinterest showcase a wide variety of visually appealing content in an organized manner.
1. Critiques of a Good User Interface: Pinterest.com
Sara Cassella
Abstract. Pinterest.com follows the Eight Golden Rules of design and the 10
heuristics for design well. The site is easy to navigate, and draws a range of
consumers, though most are women. The site is gaining popularity with an
increase in 7% of internet users over the past year.
1 Introduction
Pinterest.com is a free, but by invitation only, website designed for any user above
the age of thirteen. The website has a user create a profile, and within their profile
they create “Boards”. These boards are folders in a sense, or categories in which
“Pins”, or tagged items can be stored. The user then browses either the website itself,
or the rest of the World Wide Web to find items to pin. These items can range
anywhere from a recipe the user wants to save for later, to a sample resume or tips for
performing well in an interview. The user picks which board they want to pin an item
to, and then when they want to go back and look at something they have saved, they
can view their boards to see the pinned links in each category.
Users can also use Pinterest to follow friends, celebrities, style magazines, and
many more. This feature allows the user to access a feed on their home page that
shows all the items being pinned by people they have chosen to follow, as well as
items that Pinterest has picked as being interesting to each particular user. For
Example, on my homepage there are pins posted by friends I follow, as well as
Pinterest picks for me.
2. 2. User Population
The user population of Pinterest.com is 28% of adult internet users and 22% of the
entire adult population. Women are the primary users, with 42% of women online
using Pinterest and 13% of men online. Their draw is still typically among younger
users, with only a small portion over the age of 50. Demographically, there are
typically low and high income with at least some college experience visiting the site
regularly.
3. 3. Principles of Good Design
This website implements good design for many reasons. First of all, it is easy to
navigate throughout the site to find the item you are looking for. Pinterest uses tags to
specify an item, so for example if I was looking to find a warm white bean chili that is
low in calories I would go up to the search bar and type in “White Bean Chili” and
use the tags provided to narrow my search.
Once I have entered this search, I can use provided tags to narrow my search to meet
my criteria further.
After the search button is clicked, the key words entered are displayed as tags, so if I
decided all of a sudden I wanted to look at more than just White Bean Chili recipes, I
would click the ‘X’ to close out of “White” and “Bean” in the search bar to broaden
my search. If I decided I wanted to make my Chili Vegetarian as well as white bean, I
would click on the suggested Vegetarian tag to narrow my results. The Search bar
also allows users to search for friends by name to view their profile and boards.
Pinterest.com uses Direct Manipulation as the interaction style for the user. This is
very effective because it is very easy for the user to see how to pin something to a
board and where their link is going to be stored after it is pinned. In order to add an
item from the site itself the user hovers over the image of the item they would like to
save and the “Pin It” button appears. The user then clicks the button to show a list of
their available boards comes up, along with the opportunity to create a new board if
they are viewing an item that doesn’t seem to fall into any of their current categories.
4. Once the item has been added to a board, a pop up window appears telling the user
that they have successfully pinned this item.
Pinterest also keeps track of what you have stored in each board that you have
created. For example, if two weeks from now I decided to come back and search for
white bean chili again because the recipe I made last time wasn’t quite what I wanted,
Pinterest shows an error message to keep you from saving the same item again. This
way, since the feed I am viewing does not show what I have already saved, once I try
to save an item again Pinterest will let me know with the “pssst, looks like you have
already saved this pin” at the top of my screen.
5. By having all of these features, Pinterest complies with the Golden Principles of
Design by providing informative feedback, preventing errors, creating an effective
interaction style, and providing consistency throughout the site.
4. Heuristic Evaluation
Pinterest.com complies with almost all of the 10 heuristic guidelines for evaluation.
1. The visibility of the system is clear, the large images draw the user to the
subject of each pin, and they remain interested by the quality of the visuals
associated with each item.
2. The system matches the real world because of the ability to file away items
into categories. Much like a file cabinet with tabs, the user can take an items
and move it to a locations where it is more easily accessed by the way the
user would categorize it instead of how the internet categorizes it. Because the
user can customize the names of each tab, the site is as personal as a users
own file cabinet.
3. There is great user control and freedom because the user is able to pin from
anywhere on the web. Google Chrome software has an add-on for pinterest
that lets you directly pin websites and items from anywhere while browsing,
without even having Pinterest open on a browser.
4. Pinterest is consistent throughout each page and throughout the internet with
the same mechanism to pin items, and the same layout no matter what
platform you are pinning from.
5. It is easy to recognize when something is pinnable because by hovering over
any image the pin button will show up, no matter which site you are on. Also
on almost all news sites there is the option to pin an article at the bottom of
each page.
5. Improvements to the Site
While Pinterest has an exceptional User Interface, there are still some adjustments
that could be made to the site. For example, if a user has accidentally pinned an item
to the wrong board, it is a long process to change which board is on. The user must re-
pin the item to the correct board, which means either searching for it again on the site
or online, or go to the board it was accidentally pinned on to, re-pinning it, and then
deleting it from the wrong board.
Another improvement to the site would be to change the sort feature of the boards.
When trying to pin an item, the three most relevant boards appear at the top, but after
that the boards are sorted by relevancy instead of alphabetically or in a natural order.
Because of this, if a user has a large number of boards it is difficult to find a board
that does not show up as immediately relevant unless the user can remember the exact
name of the board to search for it.