{"id":159,"date":"2013-05-10T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2013-05-10T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T22:51:00","slug":"how-to-quickly-grow-your-pinterest-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/how-to-quickly-grow-your-pinterest-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Quickly Grow Your Pinterest Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One area I&#8217;ve been working on is expanding my use of Pinterest, as it&#8217;s an excellent social site, but one that I&#8217;ve fallen very behind with.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/thomaslancaster\">view my Pinterest profile here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pinterest is mostly a site where you can share graphics and images that you&#8217;ve seen on other sites and liked. You can also upload your own graphics and images directly to Pinterest.<\/p>\n<p>However, this definition is quite broad, as you can also pin videos, slides and other resources.<\/p>\n<p>There are several ways to quickly add pins to images of interest.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, if you Follow other prolific pinners, you can repin some of the pins that they&#8217;ve made.<\/p>\n<p>Second, you can create boards relating to areas of your research. Then just choose some of the main sites that you know of and pin appropriate images.<\/p>\n<p>Third, pin your own talks. This can easily increase their exposure. You can pin slides that you&#8217;ve uploaded to SlideShare.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, you can search websites directly on Pinterest to find appropriate graphics. Use this to start off with some of your own other professional presence sites.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth, grabbing screenshots is a great way to quickly create other images which you can share.<\/p>\n<p>Just be creative! Pinterest had a lot of potential and is an excellent visual community and a way to expand on your own professional online presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One area I&#8217;ve been working on is expanding my use of Pinterest, as it&#8217;s an excellent social site, but one that I&#8217;ve fallen very behind with. You can view my Pinterest profile here. Pinterest is mostly a site where you can share graphics and images that you&#8217;ve seen on other sites and liked. You can &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/how-to-quickly-grow-your-pinterest-profile\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Quickly Grow Your Pinterest Profile<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[92,93,94,91,90,75],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","tag-boards","tag-graphics","tag-images","tag-pins","tag-pinterest","tag-professional-presences"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Thomas Lancaster","author_link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/author\/thomas-lancaster\/"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"One area I&#8217;ve been working on is expanding my use of Pinterest, as it&#8217;s an excellent social site, but one that I&#8217;ve fallen very behind with. You can view my Pinterest profile here. Pinterest is mostly a site where you can share graphics and images that you&#8217;ve seen on other sites and liked. 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