In Shelby’s “My on and off and now on again relationship with Pinterest” post yesterday, one of her key points was that “the Tom Cruise effect” pushed her away from Pinterest before she returned to this very visual social network. I’ll get back to that in a moment. This is not our first time addressing…
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At the beginning of March, I deleted my Pinterest account because I was concerned about copyright infringement. More than a month later, I came back to Pinterest with a renewed strategy – both personally and professionally. This week, I spoke at a Pinterest training session at Brookfield Home & Idea Center. Yes, you could say…
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Over the last two weeks, I’ve been conducting a few social media experiments. In the ones I’ve chosen to share, I played around with Path, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, video and behaviors. Below are some of my findings. Engagement on Pinterest vs. Instagram My main goal with this experiment was to post images to both Pinterest…
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I’m still trying to get over the fact that Shelby admitted to being wrong about Pinterest yesterday. She was so wrong in fact that she not only opened a new account for herself, but also one for my company ColorMetrix. You can read about that yourself, however, because now it’s my turn to share the…
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I hated Pinterest. I mean, hate with a capital H. When Pinterest first made its appearance on the social media scene, I wanted to like it. I loved the idea of the general sharing of images. My mind wandered to that old phrase that “a picture was worth a thousand words.” The scandal Then, the…
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Yesterday, Shelby wrote an excellent post about why she deleted her Pinterest account. In that post, she also went over what Pinterest and Path both are. First, you can (and should) go read that post if you have not yet done so. Then, read on and I’ll share my impressions and plans for both the…
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It seems like new social media networks are being launched almost every day. Others were launched months or even years ago and are just now surfacing as major networks. Two networks that have shown up on our radar recently are Pinterest and Path. I have been playing around with both networks recently so I’ll try…
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