What is Pinterest?

• Pinterest is a virtual pinboard for crafts, recipes, décor inspiration, fitness goals, travel destinations and more!

• Pinterest allows you collect links and organize them into different “boards” for easy access.

• It’s absolutely free to use!

A Little More History…

• Pinterest has over 70 million users

• It was founded in 2010 by Ben Silbermann

• The Pinterest team initially tried to sell their idea to a NY publishing company. They said no. (whoops!)

A Little More History…

• Ben has presented about Pinterest at SXSW Interactive here in Austin

• The site drives more traffic to publishers than Twitter and Reddit combined

Signing Up

• Go to www.pinterest.com

• On the home page, enter your email address and password to sign up

• Fill out question prompts

Navigating Pinterest

• To see your pin boards, click on your name in the top right corner of the screen

• To Create a new board, click “create a board” in the light gray box at the left of the screen

• Choose a topic of interest to add as the title, add a short description, and decide if you’d like to make the board public (viewable by everyone) or private (just viewable by you).

Navigating Pinterest

Let’s create a few public and private boards together right now!

• Use the search bar at the top of the screen to type in topics of interest, or click the button to the right for suggestions

• Click on the image to expand it

• Click again and you will be taken to the orginalwebsite where the pin appeared

• Like what you see? Pin it!

Searching for Pins

• Boards: A collection of related pins

• If you are very interested in a subject, you can follow an entire pin board someone else has created.

• There is no limit to the number of boards you can follow!

• Updates to the boards you follow are shown on your Home Feed.

Following Boards

• You’ll see the term “Feed” floating around Pinterest quite a bit.

• Your feed is your “home page” on Pinterest that you view every time you sign in. Here you’ll see boards you follow and pins from your Pinterest friends.

• If you ever want to navigate back to your feed, click the red Pinterest in the middle of the top of the screen.

Your Home Feed

Adding Pinterest to Your Browser

• Pinning around the web is easy when you add Pinterest to your web browser

• Go to https://about.pinterest.com/en/goodies

• Scroll down to “The Pin It” Button and click Install Now

• Follow on screen prompts

• This will appear in your tool bar next to the search box on the top right of your screen:

Adding Pinterest to Your Browser

Let’s try pinning some things from the Web!

• You can connect with friends on Pinterest through Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo, or by finding out their username

• You can also follow pinners that you don’t know on Pinterest if you like what they’re pinning!

Finding Pinterest Friends

• Liking a pin or commenting on a pin is a great way to connect with other pinners.

• To Like a pin, click the Like gray icon.

Interacting on Pinterest

• Pinterest recently added a messaging feature to the site so you can share pins directly with other users.

• To send a message, hover over a pin and click the arrow button.

• Choose from your Pinterest friends, or send by email by typing in an email address.

Messages on Pinterest

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QkMOdW0Kyc

• http://www.realsimple.com/work-life/technology/how-to-use-pinterest-00100000087471/page3.html

Pinterest Tutorials on the Web

Feel free to email me at allison.sass@gmail.com

or message me directly on Pinterest!

http://www.pinterest.com/allisonsass

Happy Pinning!

Questions?