With Pinterest you can create pinboards online, by ‘pinning’ your favorite videos and photos, among other things. You can share these bulletin boards with others, so that they can draw inspiration from them. You should know this about Pinterest.
Tip 01: What is Pinterest?
Pinterest is the social network to create digital pinboards. You can pin pictures and videos of, for example, your favorite products, places or people, or share recipes, do-it-yourself instructions or funny videos. Under each pin is the source of the content, so you can immediately view the original website. Pinterest has experienced significant growth in the past year, and the platform has recently been expanded with new useful functions.
This way you can send users private messages to learn more about that one picture. You can also pin content to a map, to show, for example, where the photo was taken or from which country the recipe comes. Finally, Pinterest now also works with hashtags (keywords with the # sign) to quickly find Pins from a specific category.
Tip 02: Create profile
You start with Pinterest by surfing to www.pinterest.com. Create an account by entering your email address and a new Pinterest password. You can also log in with your Facebook account details. When creating your account, you follow a short step-by-step plan. Here you can indicate which interests you have in life. After that, Pinterest automatically follows some boards from these categories, so you don’t have to start with an empty account. You can then import your Twitter and Facebook contacts, so that you can follow the Pinterest activities of friends and colleagues.
You can skip any step by pressing Skip to click, so you are not obliged to connect to other social networks. After creating a profile, you still need to confirm your email address via an email sent to the email address you entered. Eventually the home screen appears, with a stream of recent pins, which are images and videos ‘pinned’ by others. Click on your name in the top right corner, go to your profile and choose Edit profile to provide your account with more information and possibly upload a photo of yourself.
Tip 03: Account settings
Review your account settings before you actively start using your debit card. You open the account settings by clicking on your name and choosing Settings. In the basic settings you can change the language to Dutch and indicate whether you are male or female. The latter is interesting in view of Pinterest’s new campaign, in which the service is calling on men to also get started with using the debit card. Pinterest has a female reputation: only 20 percent of users are men, and only 8 percent of all pinned material is posted by men.
This percentage should increase with more men in the promotional material. In addition to this setting, two more options are important with regard to your privacy. The first is Search privacy, this option is set to by default No. If you put this on Yes this will prevent your account from being included in Google. The second setting is Personalization. Pinterest makes pin recommendations based on your Pinterest activities, but may also place cookies on your computer to scan the content of other websites you visit, in order to make Pinterest even more personal.
Tip 04: Explore
Click on the red Pinterest logo to see your homepage. This page is full of Pins from the categories of the interests you entered when creating your profile. You can click on any pin. This makes the image or video larger. More information about the pin will now also appear, such as the original website where the pin can be found, in which category the pin is and who placed the pin. Click on the image again to directly open the website from which the pin comes. Click at the top left Pin it to keep the pin for yourself and publish it on your own pinboard. click on Plate and enter a name for your bulletin board, for example Funny pictures.
To keep things organized, create a separate pin board for each pin type, so that each pin board contains a specific interest. Besides your homepage you can see many more nice images. Click the dash logo in the top left to display a menu of interests. Bee Popular you can see which images have been pinned the most. In this Pinterest menu you will also find, for example, a special video section. You can recognize a pinned video by the Play-button.
Search Pinterest
You can find everything in Pinterest, but you have to search the right way. First of all, you can scroll through the various categories that you will find in the interest menu. You can open this menu by clicking on the dash logo next to the search bar. In the search bar you work with individual keywords or with hashtags, for example #gadgets. You can then filter search results by All pins or Only my pins.
So you can also search in your own pin collection. Handy if, for example, you want to have that one recipe from months ago at hand. The search results can also be filtered by boards, pinners (users) or individual pins. The hashtag #gadgets, for example, yields dozens of interesting pins that you can possibly repin.
Tip 05: Pins
If you want to place a pin yourself, click on it in the top right of the screen plus. Choose Upload a pin to get a photo or video from your computer, or Add from site where you enter a web address to pin the content. Since a lot of material for Pinterest is online, you will pin a lot from a website. To make this process easier, install the Pin It button. This is a plug-in for your browser, so you can place a pin with the click of a button. Surf to this website and click under The Pin It button Install now to add the plugin. If you are on a website and you want to pin an image, click the Pin It button in your browser toolbar.
The website turns into a kind of Pinterest board, after which you can pin any image from the website and place it on a (new) board. If you like other people’s pins, but not interesting enough to repin, hover the mouse over a pin and click on it heart to add the Pin to your likes list.
Tip 06: Messages
Under each pin you can post a comment that can be seen by all visitors. You can now also direct Pins in a private message to Pinterest users you follow. Direct friends can be imported via Facebook and Twitter. Click on your name and choose Finding friends. After linking Facebook and / or Twitter you immediately see which of your contacts is on Pinterest. By clicking on a contact’s photo, you immediately start following his or her signs.
New Pins will then appear on your personal homepage. Now click on a pin to be sent, choose To send and enter the name of the desired contact person. Then appears next to the name Co-pinner. A special Pinterest chat window now appears at the bottom left of the screen, recognizable by the white P or the passport photo of the contact with whom you last had contact.
Pinterest on your website
Do you want to share your board on your own website? Pinterest can make a useful widget for you. To do this, go to the wall you want to share, click on it gear wheel and choose Create a widget. Now copy and paste the obtained code into the appropriate location in the CMS of your website.
Tip 07: Visual sign
You can easily create a new bulletin board from your profile. click on Making a plate and give it a name and description. A fairly new addition Add card. If you set this to Yes, an interactive map will appear. Choose Add a location and enter the name of a street, city or country. Pins from others associated with this location will then appear. By repinning a pin, it is immediately pinned to the right place on the card. You can also upload images and videos yourself and hang them at a location.
Tip 08: Secret sign
You may want to keep a sign hidden, for example if you want to keep a digital photo album or are planning a surprise party. Pinterest offers the option to make boards visible only to the person who created them.
To create a hidden board, click the plus sign in the top right corner and then click Making a plate. Now enter the details as you would always do on Pinterest, but select at the bottom Yes, Bee Hide plate?. Once you click on Make plate, your board will be created, but no one can see it except you.
Tip 09: Apps
Pinterest doesn’t just work in your browser, of course. There are official Pinterest apps available for it Android and iOS. The app is beautifully designed and actually works exactly like the website. Pin, repin and search is just as easy in the app, or maybe even easier.
You can even use the app as a sort of instant messenger so you can talk to your friends. The apps can be downloaded for free in the app stores of the various platforms.
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