This is an opportunity for you to learn how to curate, pin, and post on Pinterest.

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Pinterest for Ministry
Katie Choudhary
A webinar sponsored by Digital Disciple Network
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What is Pinterest?
Pinterest is a “visual bookmarking tool that
helps you discover and save creative ideas”.
We will be covering:
•What Pinterest is
• My Role as a Curator using Pinterest
•What curation is
• Curator’s Role as Content Evaluator
• How to Open a Pinterest Account
• Let’s Play!

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What do I do with Pinterest?
• Pinterest works with “pins”. Think of Pinterest as a
collection of bulletin boards. People use push pins to
post up pictures they want to save for later on their
own bulletin boards.

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Why Do I Want To
Use This in Ministry?
• To curate content for myself and those I work with.

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What is Curation?
• “Content curation is the process of identifying the
most relevant content on a subject, then sifting
and sorting through to cherry-pick the gems that
you think will provide the most value to your
audience or like-minded people.”
- Kelly Hungerford of Paper.li
http://heidicohen.com/content-curation-19-
definitions/

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How Do I Curate Material?
• Search for “people” to follow or search for key words
Once you follow “people”, their pins will
show up on your Pinterest homepage.
Click the “heart” button to “like” the pin.
This will tell Pinterest you want to keep
seeing pins like this. Click the “save”
button with the pushpin on it to save it
to one of your boards to revisit later.

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Curator’s Role as Content Evaluator
• What criteria do you use when you “choose” a
website to pin to your Pinterest Account?
http://www.sbcc.edu/clrc/writing_center/wc_files/handout_masters/CARS%20C
hecklist%20for%20Evaluating%20Sources.pdf

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Catholic?
• Does the content of the website align with the
Catechism of the Catholic Church, Sacred Scripture,
Sacred Tradition, and the liturgical cycle?

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Why Do I Want To
Use This in Ministry?
• So others can collaborate with me and pin pins on a
shared board. For example, you and your RCIA team
can all post to one board OR all of the 6th grade
catechists can pin websites with good information or
projects on the 6th grade Religious Education board.

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Why Do I Want To
Use This in Ministry?
• So others can visit my boards and pin my pins onto
their boards. This is a great way to bring people to
your blog/website and freely share your work with
others.

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How To Open a Pinterest Account
• Filling out your profile page
• Finding your friends
• Learning the Lingo:
– What is a pin?
– What is a board?
– Repinning explained
– Explaining likes and comments
– Following explained

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Let’s Play!
• Creating your first board
• Editing board details
• Exploring your friends’ boards
• Rearranging and deleting boards
• Pinning etiquette
• Searching Pinterest
• Pinning Content

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Questions?

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