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Pinterest - What You Need To Know

In Show 78, Kelly explains to Pete just what the Pinterest Photo-sharing service has to offer, and why it's a different proposition to other photo sharing services.

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Pinterest - The Basics:

A transcript of our introduction to Pinterest, taken from FrequencyCast Show 78:

Pete:

It's Focus time, and we've got quite a lot of things to get through. To help me out, I'm joined again by Kelly.

Kelly:

Hi, Pete.

Pete:

Now Kelly, you're going to help educate me today. I keep hearing things about this thing called Pinterest, which I must admit I don't know much about, but you're something of a Pinterest expert.

Kelly:

I am a Pinterest person - I'm quite surprised you're not.

Pete:

When I first heard about this Pinterest thing, I kind of got the impression it was just for girls, but I guess I'm wrong?

Kelly:

You're definitely wrong - everyone's using Pinterest. Where have you been?

Pete:

Well, every time anyone talks to me about it, it's either celebrity interviews or knitting patterns - not really my thing.

Kelly:

No, absolutely not. You're given different categories - you can pick which ones you want to follow, and which ones your Pins will actually go into.

Pete:

"Pins" - so is this some kind of social networking, Facebook-y kind of thing?

Kelly:

No, this is something different - still kind of on the social network page, but completely different.

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Pete:

Go on then - why would I want Pinterest?

Kelly:

Well, Pinterest is for uploading different pictures, different photographs, different things you've done via Photoshop. It's to kind of communicate with a broad audience really, I mean, I would say it's mainly for photographers and people like that to get themselves known.

Pete:

Well, hang on - if I've already got Facebook for sharing photos, and I've got things like Picasso for spreading my photos if I want to, why would I want Pinterest?

Kelly:

Well, Pinterest literally gets your photos and your Pins out to a broader audience.

Pete:

But I can already do that on Facebook.

Kelly:

So you don't keep your Facebook private?

Pete:

I get it - so this is sharing photos to everyone, not just my friends?

Kelly:

This is to everybody.

Pete:

Right, so this is a way of promoting photos, so a bit like MySpace as for musicians, this is the same, but for photos?

Kelly:

Yep, and then people can choose to follow you, so if they like your images, after a certain amount of time they will come up in the same way that you can kind of favourite friends on Facebook.

Pete:

So a bit like YouTube is to videos, then this is the same for photos. So how do you use Pinterest?

Kelly:

Well, I tend to use it for my clients at the moment, so any new images and bits and pieces that come through, or that I take for them, I upload those onto Pinterest, and then that goes out to a broader audience, and I'm trying to attract more people to look at us on different social networks, like Facebook and Twitter.

Pete:

And of course, it is all about the social networking at the moment. Now, you say clients there - when you're not helping to present a radio show, you're in the PR game, is that right?

Kelly:

Well, I work in food and drink PR.

Pete:

So in the PR game, what sort of social networking tools do you use to get a client's message out there?

Kelly:

The main things we tend to use are Facebook and Twitter, as well as doing different guest blogs and linking to them really.

Pete:

And of course, you're linking to FrequencyCast as much as possible, aren't you?

Kelly:

Absolutely - 100%, mainly on my personal page though, that one.

Pete:

That's what I like to hear, and of course we'd love it if you could link to us on Facebook too, and help spread the word.

 

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