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What is Pinterest?

Pinterest allows you to find things you would have never come across i.e.: brands, styles and ideas. Thing you may not find by just plugging in search words to the internet.

Pinterest allows you to organize and share what you find on the internet. Pinterest is used to find inspiration i.e.: projects, weddings and parties.

What is it used for?

Pinterest is a web site that connects everyone around the world based on common interests. Pinterest combines visual content and shows who you are and what you like.

Time to get a Pinterest account

• Open the internet• In the address bar type www.pinterest.com• Then hit enter• Choose if you are signing up thru your email

or your facebook account and click on your chose.– If you chose email fill in all the required fields. – If you chose facebook you will need to enter your

face book log in.

This is the login thru Facebook Screen.

This is the Email create an account screen.

What’s a Pin?Pins are like bookmarks on the internet. Whenever you find something on the web that you want to keep, add it to Pinterest. Your new Pin will be there whenever you need it, and will always link back to the site it came from.

A board is a set of pins. You can create a board for any topic, such as Cool Posters, Recipes for Dinner, or Wish list. You can add as many pins to a board as you want.

What's a board?

Create a board Secret/Public

Pinning what you like to your board

What's a secret board?

• A secret board is only visible to you and to anyone you invite to it.

• Your secret boards are at the bottom of your profile. Just scroll down to see them

• You can create up to six secret boards• There's no limit on the number of secret boards you

can participate on – if you accept an invite to a secret board, it won't count against your six board limit

NOTE: You can’t change a board back to secret after you’ve made it public – so be careful!

Become an expert on a subject on Pinterest

People tend to follow boards that are full than boards that are sparsely populated.

Think about it, if you are interested in something are you going to follow a board with 5 pins on it or one with 100’s of pins on it??

You are most likely going to follow the one with 100’s of pins so there is more for you to look at.

Install a “pin it” tool on your bookmarks bar

Connect your Pinterest to other social media accounts

Follows, Likes, comments and mentions

Sell pins, Mobile pins

• If you have your own website and are selling things you can link it to your Pinterest pins. You need add a “$” to the description on the pin and Pinterest will add a price banner and put it in the gift category.

• For mobile pins you can take a picture of something with your phone, add a location and Pin via your mobile device.

How to find pinnersFirst type in a category you are interested in.Next click on the Pinners button.From here you can click on follow for any board you like.

You can also Click on the boards or pins buttons to find certain People to follow.

You have the chose to follow everything a person pins or just certain board.

Search pins by site

• If you go to pinterest.com/source/mashable.com you will see which pins originated on Pinterest.

• Then you can type in any website to see if anyone has pinned from that site.

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