Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 5:15 pm
Hey,
Yesterday I ran across the relatively new (but already with 12 million users) social media site Pinterest. It is very visually based and seems perfect for AFOLs - kind of a mix of Facebook and Flickr. You can set your own site up with different bulletin boards (either from a list of theirs or defined by you) and then you 'pin' items (emphasis on images) to the boards via a very quick automated function you can add to your browser (there's an app for it as well, but I haven't tried that out yet). These could be your own images or just stuff you find interesting as you surf about - when you pin something it automatically includes a link back to the original location. Anyway, here's my Pinterest boards so you can see what I mean. I set mine up so I have different boards for recent content from my different blogs, and also to my MOCs and my favorite sites.
Yesterday I ran across the relatively new (but already with 12 million users) social media site Pinterest. It is very visually based and seems perfect for AFOLs - kind of a mix of Facebook and Flickr. You can set your own site up with different bulletin boards (either from a list of theirs or defined by you) and then you 'pin' items (emphasis on images) to the boards via a very quick automated function you can add to your browser (there's an app for it as well, but I haven't tried that out yet). These could be your own images or just stuff you find interesting as you surf about - when you pin something it automatically includes a link back to the original location. Anyway, here's my Pinterest boards so you can see what I mean. I set mine up so I have different boards for recent content from my different blogs, and also to my MOCs and my favorite sites.