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Pinterest adds Products, Recipes and Movies

Posted 5 days 3 hours ago.
Pinterest adds Products, Recipes and Movies

Pinterest has announced a very interesting new feature called "rich pins." The idea is that instead of a pin being just an image and description, certain kinds of pins might include other specific information that always applies to those kinds of pins, and make the pins far more informative and therefore more useful. Initially, the kinds of pins that have this capability are Products, Recipes and Movies. And those are three huge categories! Pinterest also announced new support for pinning within mobile apps. Let's take a quick look at each of these new types of pins, and how businesses can get started.

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Pinterest Adds Mobile Mentions and Notifications

Posted 1 week 3 days ago.
Pinterest Adds Mobile Mentions and Notifications

Pinterest has announced an improvement to its suite of mobile apps that includes notifications, mentions, easier search, sending pins and more.

Pinterest Notifications

The Pinterest apps now feature a complete set of notifications, including Push Notifications, for events like Comments and Mentions.

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Pinterest Case Study: Focus and Read

Submitted by Mike Allton on Fri, 04/19/2013 - 3:00pm
Pinterest Case Study: Focus and Read

"Nearly 8% of school-aged children in the U.S. have received a diagnosis of AD/HD and nearly 1 in 5 U.S. school-aged children have some form of dyslexia." According to Joan Brennan, creator of the patented Reading Focus Card, there's a growing segment of our population, both children and adults, who are dealing with these kinds of issues and struggle to read. In 2009, she developed a low-tech tool to help people focus their eyes on just one or two lines of text, and block out all of the surrounding text so that they can concentrate on the words they're trying to read and digest them.

Take one glance at Joan's Pinterest boards (http://pinterest.com/brennajn2000/), and you can see how dedicated she is, not just at selling her product and building her business, but also at providing resources and educational information that people and parents will appreciate.

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Using Pinterest to get More Traffic - Case Studies Included

Submitted by Tom Jones on Thu, 04/18/2013 - 7:30pm
Using Pinterest to get More Traffic - Case Studies Included

Pinterest has grown to be a major social networking site that has the potential to greatly increase the traffic to any website, allowing the owners an opportunity to achieve their goals. Whether their goal is to increase revenue sales on a business website or spread the word about a certain topic on a blog, Pinterest will can be a major factor in their success. Although there are a great variety of benefits that come along with Pinterest, lets go over a few reasons how using it will increase traffic.

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5 Cool Content Curation Tools for Social Marketers

Submitted by Aidan Hijleh on Sat, 04/13/2013 - 8:00am
5 Cool Content Curation Tools for Social Marketers

In the Age of Information, the ability to “curate”, or gather and arrange content, becomes one of the most important skills you can have. After all, the information is out there for everyone to see. What makes you stand out from the crowd is how you locate and present it. This process can be a grueling one if you go at it alone. That’s why the smart content curator will find tools to make their job easier in siphoning the best material off the top of the web, and presenting it in the purest and most palatable of forms.

Here are five such tools that will allow savvy social marketers to make it happen.

Scoop.it1. Scoop.it

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Pinterest for Business: Build Your Brand with Pinterest

Published on Apr 02, 2013.
Pinterest for Business: Build Your Brand with Pinterest

Ah, the old days of doing business and getting the word out—like pinning a business flyer or card on a bulletin board in the local grocery store. Now "pinning" business materials to promote and market is a little more advanced and a little more digital. Social networking site Pinterest allows users to "pin" images of things are inspiring, such as pictures of cool gardens or a favorite sports team. In the same vein, Pinterest for Business is an innovative way for companies to grow and build their brand as well as solidify their identity online via a virtual company pinboard.

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How to use Pinterest Analytics

Published on Mar 13, 2013.
How to use Pinterest Analytics

Pinterest announced that they're now offering their users access to a rich set of statistics for their pins and pin activity. Called simply Pinterest Analytics, it is available to any user with a verified website (not just "business" accounts). This is a much-needed asset for business owners and bloggers as it will help you see not only how your pins have performed, but what content other people have pinned from your website and how those pins have performed.

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When is the Best Time to Post on Social Media?

Published on Feb 05, 2013.
When is the Best Time to Post on Social Media?

For most small business owners, your social media activity may be limited to just one or two posts a day. If you're active all day, then "optimum post time" may not be as important. But if you have just one or two shots to catch the bulk of your followers when they're potentially listening, you need to be aware of that time.

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LinkedIn Passes 200 Million Members

Posted 19 weeks 2 days ago.
LinkedIn Passes 200 Million Members

LinkedIn announced today that the professional social network has passed 200 million members. It's a tremendous milestone and the announcement went on to break down how that membership is comprised.

For instance, the site boasts 74 million members in the United Sates, and 11 million in the United Kingdom. Interestingly, India has actually surpassed the UK for second place at 18 million members.

LinkedIn is gaining approximately 2 new members every second, and a great many of those are coming from countries like Turkey, Brazil and even China.

From an industry perspective, Information Technology (IT) represents the largest segment at 4 million members, followed by Financial Services, Higher Education, Computer Software and Telecommunication.

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Is Pinterest joining the #PhotoWar?

Posted 23 weeks 3 days ago.
Is Pinterest joining the #PhotoWar?

While Twitter and Instagram have been publicly waging a war on how we share our images and see them online, Pinterest has quietly entered the fray. Today, Pinterest has implemented support for Twitter Cards which means that when you share a new Pin to Twitter, your Twitter followers will be able to see the image embedded within the expanded Tweet. This is exactly the functionality that Instagram just removed, in order to force users to follow a link to Instagram.

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