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Thursday, May 10, 2012

What is a Pin on Pinterest?


Now that we’ve explored the idea of creating our own virtual bulletin board (pin board), we can start thinking about how we can use a technique called “pinning” in the Pinterest world. When you think of a bulletin board, there are several times that you will want to pin things to your board. If our board was related to Thanksgiving we may want to pin a few recipes, decoration ideas, menus, or anything else that would seem related to our idea of the board revolving around the concept of Thanksgiving.

Before you begin pinning you need to create your own boards. I have given a few different ideas on the concept of boards and where to start in a previous blog explaining What is aboard?  

Let’s say that you created the following boards:

When I find recipes that I want to remember or keep in mind for future planning, I can pin them to my board for recipes. When I find shoes that I love, I may want to pin them to my shoes board.

A pin is similar to bookmarking the idea (pinning) to your own bulletin board. To pin an item to your board you can either upload your own picture or content directly through Pinterest, you can browse the internet and create your own pin from a website, or you can repin content that you find on Pinterest that you want to add to your board.

Your pin is simply an idea that you have placed on your pin board.

In the following example, a sample of my quotes board is pictured. Each of the quotes that you see in this picture is known as a "pin". Each of the quotes I have pinned to my board called quotes.



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