Pinterest Anyone?

What is  

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Pinterest is the latest social photo sharing website that allows its community to make up virtual pinboards according to themes such as inspiration, recipes, style, favorites, etc. If you're getting married, you can even plan your wedding with pinboards. It launched in 2010 but it seems this year it has become most known.

I do have to admit when I first signed up I was a little addicted. Okay, a lot addicted.

I love photography and images that promote any kind of creativity or inspiration. It's also a great tool for authors to share pictures of their characters and settings of their novels.

When the whole copyright scare made its rounds, I became less active. However, I did come across a helpful blog post (which I'll share below) that covers this topic and it's well worth reading.

Nevertheless, Pinterest, in my opinion, is such an awesome idea. I love to create and sharing pinboarding is just plain fun. I'm more of a visual person so this is right up my alley.

So how do you use it?

When I first started, I asked several people for help and for some reason or another nobody answered so I had to figure it out on my own. It's really a cinch once you are familiar with it. Promise.

So this is what you do:

Log in—you have an account right? If not, open one up.

At the top right corner you will see:

ADD ABOUT and YOUR NAME

Click on ADD.

A little box will pop up.

Click on CREATE A BOARD


If you have a pic you want to add from a site you know of, click on ADD A PIN
or if you want to upload: UPLOAD A PIN

Also, if you click on the PINTEREST logo at the top, you can see what your friends are posting. Click on a pic and it will take you to the site it originated from.

You can also find your friends in the SEARCH box. A bunch of images will pop up after you enter a name and click on the magnify glass in the Search box. 

This gives you the option to search by boards or people. Click on PEOPLE and voila. Your friend's pinboards will pop up. The cool part about it, you can search for certain topics that can help with when researching for your WIP or future novels.

Also here is a code for your PIN BUTTON. 

Select the HTML Code for preferred button and copy n paste. If you have Blogger go to:

LAYOUT
ADD A GADGET
Under BASICS select HTML/JAVA SCRIPT

Paste code and save

Okay, so here they are. The links I promised that I found very helpful. I have been collecting them throughout the year.

Happy pinning!

Follow me on my Pinterest page

Are you on Pinterest?

What do you like best about Pinterest? What do you like the least?

Literary agent Amanda Luedeke shares some good tips at

 Thursdays with Amanda: How do I use Pinterest as an author?

Book Baby shares Pinterest for Authors:  

How to Promote Your Writing on the Fastest Growing Website Ever

Some awesome insight on  

Don't Panic Over Pinterest Copyright Issues by Jennifer Hudson Taylor

Literary agent Rachelle Gardner share great tips at Ten Tips for Authors Using Pinterest She also shares some thoughts at  Pinterest: 13 Things Writers Should Know

Lucille Zimmerman offers helpful tips and some more links about Pinterest at Using Pinterest to Pump Your Platform