Anyone who has their own business, especially an online business, knows how important Social Media can be to their success. There are so many outlets for social media now including the most common Facebook and Twitter, as well as less popular sites such as Stumbleupon, Kaboodle, Digg, and on the list goes. I’m not going to go into detail on any of these because there are people out there who have much more expertise to answer all your questions. Today I just wanted to share a couple of interesting things I have found about Pinterest.
For those of you who haven’t come across Pinterest yet here’s a brief explanation. Basically think of it as an online “Pin Board” where you can stick pins in all your favorite things online to share and come back to later. You might think “isn’t that what my favorites and bookmarks are for on my computer?”. It’s the same concept but what’s better about Pinterest is that you can connect with others who love the same things, share the items you pin for everyone to see, organize everything into categories and you have visuals of the things you’ve pinned because they show as an image. I’m a visual person so for me Pinterest is a great solution to help me organize and share all the fabulous things I come across online!
Until now I was just re-pinning items that others had pinned but I wanted to learn how I could pin something I found on the web. There are easy instructions to do so here depending on the browser you are currently using. The other thing I found that I was excited to share is that you can easily add a “Follow Me on Pinterest” button to your blog or webpage (just like I have on the left hand side of this page) so others can easily find and follow you. The instructions are simple and you can find them here.
I’m not one to jump onboard with every new social media site that appears but I definitely think this is one that is useful and fun! Maybe I’ll see you there! ♥
