Pinterest

I'm a Pinterest addict.  (Are you noticing a trend here?)  I've got almost 4000 pins neatly organized on 113 boards.  :-)  You can check them out here:  http://www.pinterest.com/amypintx/  Some people create separate school and personal accounts but that's way too much trouble for me.  I've got everything from Google Drive resources to recipes to photography tips to Pokemon party ideas (my son is 8!)  

Here's some Pinterest tips:

• Create boards for specific topics rather than general ones.  For example, rather than having a generic "School" or "Education" board, have specific boards for subject areas, classroom management, educational technology, etc.  My opinion is that it's better to have more boards with fewer pins than fewer boards with a ton of pins that you have to search through.

• In the "Pin it" window, boards show up in the drop down list alphabetically.  Name your boards so that similar boards group together alphabetically.  For example, all of my education related boards start with "School-_____", like School- Google Drive, School- Google Forms, School- Classroom Management.  All of my recipe boards start with "Food-___", like Food- Crock Pot, Food- Sweets, etc.

• Don't follow a ton of people.  Follow only those who pin things you love.  The more people you follow, the more bogged down you'll get in stuff that you don't care about.

• Unfollow specific boards.  When you follow someone, you usually follow all their boards by default.  If there are boards that you aren't interested in, you can unfollow those specific ones. 

• When re-pinning, change the description text if it's too vague or doesn't apply to you.  The more specific you are, the easier it will be to find the pin later.

• If you notice that you're pinning a lot of stuff from the same blog, consider adding that blog to your Feedly so that you don't miss any good stuff!

•  Add content... don't just repin.  When you find a blog post you like, pin it! I use the Chrome Extension "Pin It Button" to make it easy.


What are your favorite Pinterest tips?