DIscover Pinterest and how to use it with

1. Discover Pinterest
A presentation by Sign3
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2. 1. What is Pinterest?
2. Setting up an account
3. The homepage
4. How to pin things
5. Creating a new board and editing it
6. Examples of boards (“equality” and “Poetry”)
7. Pinterest etiquette
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3. What is Pinterest?
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4. Pinterest is an online pin board that allow
its users to organise and share their
interests
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5. 17.2% of all pin boards are categorized under
Home, followed by Arts and Crafts (12.4%),
Style/Fashion (11.7%), Food (10.5%) and
Inspiration/Education (9.0%)
http://www.sign3.co.uk/blog/pinterest-is-all-about-cuisine.html
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6. Setting up your account
To set up your account, you will need to go on http://pinterest.com
you will then see the yellow box where you can request an invite.
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7. Overview of the Homepage
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8. Homepage: Add: you can get
Pinners you folow the Pin Button for
your browser
Explore
Categories
Recent
Activity
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9. Once installed in your browser, the “Pin It” button lets you grab
an image from any website and add it to one of your pin
boards.
How to pin?
You will see how to add the button to your browser
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10. http://youtu.be/slBh9vxA9_M
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11. Creating and editing a pin board
“A board is a set of pins. A board can be
created on any topic, such as Cool
Posters, Recipes For Dinner, or Wish list.
You can add as many pins to a board as
you want.”
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12. Clicking on “Add” gives you the option to add pins
and to create new boards.
Clicking on your username takes you to your pin
boards.
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13. You can create a new
Board by clicking on “Add”
Another click on your
Username will take your
Boards with the possibility
To edit the front cover
and more
You can edit your You can rename and
board cover edit your Board
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14. Pin board ideas
The following examples are “Equality”
and “Poetry and Education”
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15. http://pinterest.com/finngirl88/equality/
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16. http://pinterest.com/leovadia/poetry-and-quotations/
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17. Pinterest is a community of people.
Individual tastes are personal, but please be
respectful in your comments and conversations.
Pinterest does not allow nudity, hateful content, or
content that encourages people to hurt themselves.
Pinterest etiquette
http://pinterest.com/about/etiquette/
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18. Thank you
http://www.sign3.co.uk
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