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What’s New For Pinterest

Devon N. Moyer — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:10:12 +0000

As an avid Pinterest user I was very excited when earlier last month they announced the creation of secret boards. If your a familar Pinterest user as well you know that each image you pin to a board can be seen by your follows by showing up on their personal feed. While this is great because it promotes the entire point of Pinterest to share ideas, projects, and products it also doesn’t leave…

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Magazines Are Realizing Pinterest’s Potential

Kristi Olphin — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:29:45 +0000

With Pinterest’s rising popularity, Hearst, a company that produces magazines such as O, the Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan and Town & Country, are recognizing how important it is that each magazine have its own presence on Pinterest. The company has even put together a team of “Pinterns” to man the maiden voyage of the company’s Pinterest involvement. For magazines to be on Pinterest makes an…

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Disturbing Pro-Anorexia Content Banned on Pinterest

Kristi Olphin — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:39:48 +0000

Pinterest has taken up a united front against Thinspiration/Pro-Ana (common terminology for Pro-Anorexia) pin boards on their website. “Thinspiration” blogs, tumblrs, and group sites outside of Pinterest have been around for years. They often consist of women posting images of sometimes buff yet more often severely underweight role models to encourage its viewers to aspire to look like said women.

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Female Consumers Trust Pinterest Above Other Social Media Sites

Kristi Olphin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:34:31 +0000

I recently posted about the wildly popular social sharing site Pinterest, and how it has serious potential to become something big in the world of advertising. Well, as a matter of fact, Adweek recently posted an article highlighting how, according to research done by BlogHer.com, women are more likely to trust information posted about products on social sites like Pinterest and blogs than they…

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Let’s Talk Pinterest for Marketers

Kristi Olphin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:46:59 +0000

Though established back in 2010, online social scrapbooking site Pinterest has gained wild popularity in the past few months. As a huge fan of Pinterest for quite some time now, I’d like to dedicate this entry to discussing how Pinterest has the potential to, with very little effort, nurture a brand’s popularity with just a few pins + shares. For those of you who haven’t been exposed to…

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Pinterest: Discover and Organize your Inspiration By Creating Online Pinboards

Brianna M. D'Florence — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:59:09 +0000

COLLECT AND ORGANIZE YOUR INSPIRATION My desktop was overloaded with images and I had too many bookmarks on my safari toolbar. That was until Professor Kantrowitz told me about Pinterest. Pinterest is a great tool for aspiring advertising professionals and designers. I just started an account and I love it. Best of all, its free. Pinterest is a website where you can create online…

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