This is a simple tour of Pinterest and how it can help your organization. This was made in 2013 so some of the buttons and features might be in different places.

1. What the Pin
is Pinterest? PINTEREST

2. WHAT IS PINTEREST, NO REALLY, WHAT IS IT?
A Visual Discovery Tool.
(Think bookmarking website but with visual organization)
An area to find (and save!) all the things that inspire you.
A website that will suck away hours of my life.
( I will try to help save you time on Pinterest)

3. Where to
find what
and how to
do that
wi t h t h i s…
TOUR OF PINTEREST

4. PROFILE PAGE

5. FEED

6. PROFILE MENU

7. NOTIFICATIONS

8. SEARCH MENU (BEFORE 3-5)

9. NEW MENU (AS OF 3-5)

10. NEW MENU (BOTTOM)

11. CREATING A BOARD

12. CREATING A BOARD

13. INSIDE THE BOARD

14. WHAT’S IN A PIN?

15. DOUBLE CLICK ON A PIN

16. BELOW THE PIN

17. MORE ABOUT PINS

18. PINNING (!!!)

19. PINS (!!)

20. UPLOADING A PIN

21. PICK AN IMAGE

22. PICK A BOARD

23. PINNING FROM A WEBSITE

24. PIN FROM A SITE

25. CHOOSING PIN FROM A SITE

26. PIN TO A BOARD

27. PINNING FROM THE FEED

28. HOVER

29. PICK A BOARD

30. FINDING THE SEARCH MENU

31. SEARCH MENU

32. GARDENING :)

33. HOW TO SEARCH

34. SEARCH BOARDS

35. FOLLOWING, ITS LIKE FRIEND-ING, KIND OF

36. WICOMICO PUBLIC LIBRARY

37. SOMERSET COUNTY LIBRARY

38. CAROLINE COUNTY

39. HOW WILL THIS SAVE ME TIME?
 Fol low pinners/boards wi th a lot of fol lowers or simi lar interests
 See what other libraries are doing on Pinterest
 Recycle their pins
 Content is ready and at your fingertips
 Will give you content to keep the masses happy so you have more
time to make your original content.
 We don’t need to duplicate work

40. NOW YOU TRY!
 Make a Board cal led LIBRARY
 Search Pinterest for a Library to fol low
 Find a board you l ike from this Library and fol low it
 Repin something that inspires you from this board

41. Know Your
Users DEMOGRAPHICS

42. OTHER THOUGHTS
 Double check the source of the content, you don’t want it
g o i ng b a c k to s ome o ne ’ s t umb ler page (or worse!)
 Patrons don’t need an account to view pins!
 I f you are trying to fi l l a need in your l ibrary, add aisle cards
in the area that corresponding books would be to let patrons
know they can find more information on that topic onl ine.

43. Gender and
overal l SM
user s

44. Age, this one is
interest ing

45. Urbani ty

46. Race/Ethnici ty

47. Educat ion

48. Income