Here’s the thing. Right now, you can join Pinterest by invitation only. You can go to the site and request for an invite and I don’t know if there is a waiting list or what. Or you can be invited by someone. Well, the people at Pinterest gave me 100 invitations to give to my readers. Read on to find out what it is then go to the bottom of this post to find out how you can be invited to join.
My Bookmarking Problems
Here was my problem, I’m sure you have the same problem. I have 142 blogs I subscribe to in my RSS reader. That’s not including friends and families’ private blogs. And as I go through the unread posts on my reader, I find photos, tips, inspiration, tutorials or things that lead me to think of something else that I want to bookmark from the sites. I used to have this insanely long list of bookmarked posts in a folder on my web browser bookmark bar. The problem with that was it was hard for me to go back and find what I wanted when it’ only gives me the title of the post. I would have to go to the link to find out what it was that I bookmarked.
Then I moved from bookmark bar to Tumblr. That worked a bit better, but still not what I was looking for. Since Tumblr is in blog form, you have to scroll down or search for that one post I was looking for. The below image is of my Tumblr site.
How to Pin
Along came Pinterest to save the day. Pinterest has a bookmarklet, a button you add to your bookmark bar. Every time you are reading a post or on a site where you see something you want to bookmark, you click on that button on your bar and it pulls up all the images on that page. Click on the image you want to use for your pin and done. The image and the URL for that particular post or site that you just pinned have been added to your pin boards. You can add tags and categories and notes to it. Then it goes to your Pinterest account like this…
What’s a Pin Board?
Pin boards are like a virtual bulletin board where you pin images and ideas to with a thumb tack. Now think of it as having a different pin board for each category. For me, some of my pin boards/categories are I Wanna Purchase (my universal wishlist), I Wanna Make (tutorials of things I would love to make one day), I Wanna Home (home decorating ideas) and so forth.
It’s a Social Network Too
You can see other people’s boards and pins, like mine. You can follow people’s specific boards if you like their tastes or things they’ve posted there. Or you can follow all their boards. If you see something someone else pinned, you can like it and/or repin it onto your boards. You can comment on pins, you can email and share pins or boards with your friends and family. And they just added a new feature called collaboration. You and someone else can collaborate and pin things to the same board, similar to groups in Flickr or Facebook.
How to Join Pinterest
Now that you know about Pinterest, you want to join right? It’s quite fun. And it was the perfect solution for my bookmarking problem. I love it. I love the site’s clean design. Its user-friendly features. Visually inticing. I can find that post I was looking for so easily and quickly too. And in talking to people at Pinterest, they offer me 100 invitations for my readers. That’s right. The first 100 people who leaves a comment below and say something to the effect of “I wanna join Pinterest!” I’ll send you an invitation via email. I will try to get the invitations to you within a day of your request. If you haven’t heard from me, check your spam mail first to see if it might have gone to spam. If not, then email me or leave another comment.
Once you join Pinterest, follow my boards by going to my direct Pinterest site page. And then I’ll give you a few days to play around with it. Next week, I’ll be doing a Pinterest Party where we will all collaborate together on a board. So come on! Join in on the fun and participate in the Pinterest Party next week!
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This is great! I want to join! I’ve been looking for something like this!
This is just what I’ve been looking for. Thanks a million!
I would love to try this out!! I’m a list lover also!!!!!!!
Yes, please! I need this…the stars on google reader aren’t cutting it. Yay!
I want to Pintrest! For all the reasons that you joined- Tumblr just isn’t working for me the way I want it to!
Sounds like a great tool! Would love an invite!
I would love something like this – finally a place to keep track of all the great cute ideas I see!
Oh fun! I want to join!
Tiffany – thanks so much for the lovely post and your great pin-it-forward board! This is ben from pinterest. I am super excited to have so many of your readers joining. If anyone has questions or suggestions to make pinterest better, feel free to get in touch – we want to make it a useful and fun community, so new ideas and feedback are always welcome. ben (at) pinterest (dot) com
thanks, ben, for allowing me to share this with my readers. so far everyone loves it!
I wanna join Pintrest! Please send me an invite!!
My favorites is completely filled with projects I want to try that I can’t find anything I’m looking for! This sounds great!
Me Me!!
So I joined and I.LOVE.IT. What a brilliant idea, and a beautiful format!! Thank you for sharing this!!!!!
isn’t it great? i love it too.
I would love to join!
everyone from Amber and up should have gotten your pinterest invite. come join in on the pinning fun!
I love it! I use Delicious for websites. But it seems like this is the perfect tool for a “visual learner” like me. Thanks for the heads up!
I’d like one please! I have such a hard time remembering where I put all those awesome ideas!
I wanna Pintrest too!!
I want to join! Thanks!
I have to look through all of my bookmarks to find what I am looking for…..this is going to be great! Thanks
just keeping it updated. everyone from jill on should have invitations.
This is amazing! I use stumbleupon and my browser bookmarks to try to keep track of things…it’s not working very well. I’d love to join Pintrest.
I really want to join Pintrest, hopefully i still can?
Pinrest sounds like a dream come true!! My star function is not enough. I would love to join Pinrest.
I want to join Pintrest!!! I’m using Delicious at the moment, but I like that this one is more visual.
I want to join too!
I would love to join I am addicted to finding inspiration through blogs but then have trouble finding them again later.