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Developing Your Brand: Spending Time on Pinterest, Facebook and Google+

When people started talking about being addicted to Pinterest, I knew this social media platform was quickly becoming more than a passing fad. For many of us pinners, spending time of Pinterest is like a shopping addiction without the guilt of a mounting credit card bill. That said, I have heard many pinners also refer to the phenomenon of a Pinterest hangover—unable to even remember what they did the last three to four hours after they crawl out of Pinterest. 

Facebook still appears to attract more valuable user time than both Google+ and Pinterest. But recently Pinterest passed Google+ in time spent per month on the platform. An Ad Age article today reports ComScore data shows that "the average Google+ user spends three minutes on the platform every month, compared to 405 minutes for Facebook users. The average time spent by each Pinterest user per month is 50 minutes."

Part of the attraction of social media is the ability for users to follow the pros who make the brands we love. For example, the savvy editors at Real Simple magazine have developed a growing following on Pinterest with boards like Problem-Solving Products and Daily Thoughts & Inspiration.

Dear Pinterest.

 

The "Dear Pinterest" graphic above is part of the THE PINTEREST PROJECT. A kind social media experiment to reach as many Pinterest users as possible (and Pinterest) to raise awareness about the importance of LINKING to the original source + respecting intellectual property online. (More info here.)

Spreading love + goodness.

Please pin it. Please share it. Please + thank you.

via Dear Pinterest. - LINKwithlove.

P.S. If you want a LINKwithlove button like the one below, you can grab one here.

 

via linkwithlove.typepad.com

The "Dear Pinterest" graphic above is part of the THE PINTEREST PROJECT. A kind social media experiment to reach as many Pinterest users as possible (and Pinterest) to raise awareness about the importance of LINKING to the original source + respecting intellectual property online. (More info here.)

Spreading love + goodness.

Please pin it. Please share it. Please + thank you.

Pinterest: How to Pin Favorite Websites Using the Pin It Button

Finding an image on a website to share on Pinterest is addicting. And pinning that recipe or photo or illustration is super easy if you have the  helpful "Pin It" goodie provided by Pinterest. This button does two important things:

• The Pin It button allows you to grab an image from any website and add it to one of your pinboards—just make sure you are grabbing it from the ORIGINAL source. In other words, when you pin a recipe, make sure the website is the one that created the recipe. (More about this below.)
• When you see something amazing on a website and want to pin it, the Pin It button automatically grabs the source link so you can credit the original—to do this the linked website should be the original source.

The step-by-step directions for getting the Pin It button and adding it to your Bookmarks bar make installing this helpful goodie a snap. You can find the directions here. 

 

 

LinkWithLove explains in their recent "Dear Pinterest" post why it is so important for Pinterest users to link to the original source because there is a person behind every piece of art, photo, or recipe and that creative person deserves to get credit. Find out more about savvy pinning here via the super savvy Kal Barteski.

MORE Pinterest Goodies

Pinterest offers a variety of other goodies including:

• Follow Button for Websites (Similar to a Twitter or Facebook follow button, add this button to your blog in a post or add it to the sidebar) 
• Pin It Button for Websites (Readers can use this to pin your images on your blog onto Pinterest)

 

Waiting for snow

Hope you are having a lovely week. We had a couple of snow storms here last week so the neighborhood hills have been busy with kids sledding. Not sure the outdoor snow fun will last this week. The temps are too warm for snow during the day and I can see pavement on my street again. At night frost forms on the windows so perhaps the snow will last a couple more days. 

If you want to see more of my winter images, check out my blog on Tumblr, Decor Crush, or check out my image boards on Pinterest.