It's the big buz these days. It's Pintastic, It's Pinterest!
Now the many hours that have been spent chatting and surfing on facebook, diminish a little as their "interest" turns toward "pinterest"! I, myself am not a very good facebook friend. Unfortunately I just don't have the time, or I guess make the time. Pinterest is a nice for an unwinding time; it's motivating, envisioning and sometimes thrilling.
In the celebration of this I wanted to share a tip on proper pinning. This covert tip is not even revealed on the Pin Etiquette page! Pinners have told me that they actually only pin things directly from Pinterest - I'm of that group most of my pinning time. If you are all to familiar with this site, you know the destinations pins take you to as well either; 1. the website it originated from or 2. a photo that the owner pinned. Lovely. There are many pins where the image is self explanatory. However there are pins that take us to tutorials, recipes and much more. Many of us have eagerly gone to the expected destination only to find a dead end.
One of the most peculiar destinations is when you arrive at a blog, where instead of the intended blog post, the entire blog is pinned. So the pin that you search for may be buried 6 months ago in posts, 3 days ago, or perhaps years...."nobody knows!" I don't know enough about web and software construction to know whether or not Pinterest can eventually remedy this. So for now we, pinners have to take it into our own hands! What shall we do? When we come across something pintastic on a blog, we must open up the individual post and pin the post. You can tell by looking at the url. If it ends in .com/ we have the entire blog, what we want to see is .com/name-or-date-of-the-post or something like that. Simply clicking on the heading of the post usually takes us to the url we want to pin! Of course I should ad, if one's blog has stipulated for all to see that they would like you to ask permission before pinning - that is a very good idea. Most of time they are more than happy that you did, and will grant you your wish!
Happy pinning and looking forward to following Your next pin!
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Now the many hours that have been spent chatting and surfing on facebook, diminish a little as their "interest" turns toward "pinterest"! I, myself am not a very good facebook friend. Unfortunately I just don't have the time, or I guess make the time. Pinterest is a nice for an unwinding time; it's motivating, envisioning and sometimes thrilling.
In the celebration of this I wanted to share a tip on proper pinning. This covert tip is not even revealed on the Pin Etiquette page! Pinners have told me that they actually only pin things directly from Pinterest - I'm of that group most of my pinning time. If you are all to familiar with this site, you know the destinations pins take you to as well either; 1. the website it originated from or 2. a photo that the owner pinned. Lovely. There are many pins where the image is self explanatory. However there are pins that take us to tutorials, recipes and much more. Many of us have eagerly gone to the expected destination only to find a dead end.
Happy pinning and looking forward to following Your next pin!
Oh I agree. I love pinterest. I avoided it for a while, knowing I'd love it, and knowing I didn't need one more internet thing to suck my time. But, I finally gave in and I have to say, I'm glad I did. So I FB less now.....heck....that's worth it all right there! :) I have a adicted/hate relationship with FB. I get sucked in to look at it, then once there, I realize its so boring and head out. Why do I even have it? Anyways, I just blew up pinterest tonight with quilt inspiration. I tried to find you on there to view your boards, but I don't know how to do that yet. Happy pinning! :)
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