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Pinterest Will Test a Redesign
Pinterest will begin testing a redesign with a “very small” group of beta testers “over the coming weeks,” the company said today. The redesign will provide clearer navigation and more opportunities to...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Pinterest Redesign | Facebook Co-Founder
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Pinterest Will Test a Redesign (SocialTimes) Pinterest will begin testing a redesign with a “very small” group of beta testers “over...
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5 Ways to Use Social Media on Super Bowl Sunday
The Super Bowl isn’t just for television viewers. You can use social media to plan your entire Sunday, including betting pools, tailgate parties, commercials, second screen fun, and of course, the...
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Pinterest Rolls Out iOS Update
The image-based social network Pinterest rolled out an update for its iOS app today, adding more functionality for mobile users of the visual social network. The update allows users to edit their...
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Pinterest Valued at More Than $2 Billion: Report
Pinterest is in the midst of a fund raising round that puts the company’s total value between $2 and $2.5 million, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The company’s last major funding round in...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Instagram on the Web | Pinterest Valuation
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Mobile-First Instagram Brings its Content to the Web (SocialTimes) Instagram users can now access their photo feeds via the desktop...
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Pinterest Doesn’t Just Skew Female; It Draws Higher Rates of Middle-Class and...
Use of social networks overall is highest among women and the young and in urban areas, but different networks draw distinct demographic user bases, according to a demographic study released today by...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook Promoted Posts | Obama Hangout
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Users Can Now Promote Facebook Friends’ Posts (AllFacebook) A few months ago, Facebook made it possible for users to pay to promote...
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Pinterest, Valued at $2.5B, Brings in $200M in Venture Capital
Pinterest has just secured $200 million in funding, more than double what it brought in from the Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten in its well-publicized round last year, the company said. The...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences | Pinterest Funding
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Mark Zuckerberg Helps Launch the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation (AllFacebook) Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark...
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Security Breach at Zendesk May Affect Your Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest Accounts
Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest users who have recently contacted customer support for their accounts should be on the lookout for suspicious emails. Zendesk, which provides customer service software...
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Photos Dominate on Social Media, Smartphones: Infographic
An infographic from Chute sheds some light on why social networks are battling over photo uploads, filters and displays: Photos are the dominant content on the sites. New Career Opportunities Daily:...
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Infographic: A How-To Guide for Advertising on Pinterest
Pinterest combines the beauty of flipping through a glossy magazine with the instant gratification of a Google search, which could be a game-changer for marketers who are looking for new ways to reach...
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Infographic: The Top 100 Most Influential Pinners
Pinterest’s target demographic is not the target of this map of the most influential people on Pinterest in 2012. What’s surprising about the top pinners is not who they are, but where they live. A...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook Hashtags? | Foursquare Android App
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Facebook to Follow Other Social Nets by Using Hashtags (SocialTimes) Facebook is bringing hashtags to its social networking service,...
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The Skinny on How Weight Watchers Uses Social Media
Did you know that the first social media platform Weight Watchers used was MySpace in 2008? It then launched Facebook and Twitter in 2009. Today the company has both an internal team and an agency that...
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Pinterest Releases New Apps for iOS and Android
Need inspiration? Check your purse. Pinterest has updated its mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android to include some of the discovery features that were recently released on the web. Here’s what’s...
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New Tool: Pingage Helps You Test it Before You Pin It on Pinterest
Pingage has launched a new service for optimizing posts on Pinterest. With crafty users who like to post their ideas for everything from their dream weddings to their next tattoos, Pinterest recently...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook News Feed Ads | Hashtags Harmful?
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Facebook Exchange Ads Being Tested on Desktop News Feeds (AllFacebook) The lines between different ways to advertise on Facebook are...
View ArticleWhat Should You Know About Pinterest As A Social Media Marketing Platform?
Are you thinking of using Pinterest for your social media marketing needs? Are you thinking of hiring a social media marketing company to take care of your Pinterest requirements? You have your eyes on...
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Bing Puts a ‘Pin It’ Button on Image Searches
Bing will now allow Pinterest users to pin images directly from the image search results to their boards, the company announced today. “Last fall, we hosted a group of lifestyle and design bloggers at...
View ArticleHow to Optimize Your Pinterest Images?
Reports indicate that Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social media platforms on the web today. This website gets more than 30 million visitors per month as per the latest statistics. Every...
View ArticleHow to create Pinterest-like script – step 6
How to create Pinterest-like script – step 6 Several our readers asked us to implement an infinite scroll for our Pinterest script, thus I decided to implement it today. I made some research, and came...
View ArticlePinterest Marketing Strategies For Greater Success
You are probably using Pinterest already to promote your brand, products or services. Have you started tracking your Pinterest traffic if you are already using this social media platform to promote...
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Some Users Hit Dead Ends When Following Links From Pinterest
Marketing Land unearthed some interesting and really important bits of Pinterest’s terms of service. It turns out shortened URLs are not allowed in the descriptive text that accompanies images on the...
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How to Make Pinterest Work for Your Brand
Fast Company recently reported that Pinterest was not only one of the most visited sites in the country, but also that purchases made through the site bring in twice the revenue per order than through...
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The Best Pinterest Boards for Hungry Photographers
The aesthete in me loves the curatorial nature of Pinterest, but I also like to follow great users to get inspired. The boards on Pinterest showcase great professional photography – clear crisp photos...
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Academic Study Probes Pinterest Purchasing Phenomenon
In what appears to be the first academic study [pdf] devoted to Pinterest usage, scholars Eric Gilbert and Loren Terveen conclude that Pinterest’s image-based platform taps in to consumer demand. The...
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Pinterest Improves Its Search Features
Pinterest today announced a few changes to its new look that will make people and pins easier to find. New to the image bookmarking site is a “find friends” tab that shows users when their Facebook and...
View ArticlePinterest Social Media Marketing Strategy To Target Women
Statistics available to us indicate the Pinterest received more traffic than number of top social media platforms including Google Plus, YouTube and LinkedIn in the last year. The number of visitors to...
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Seeing Double? Pinterest Adds Duplicate Pin Notification
Pinterest will now notify users when they’ve already pinned an image on the bookmarking site. The company rolled out the feature today to web users and will bring it to mobile devices soon. In the...
View ArticlePinterest Social Media Marketing Quick Tips For Better Success
Are you planning to venture into Pinterest social media marketing to promote your brand on the web? If yes, you have made a very good move and here are few easy and quick tips that will bring better...
View ArticleAlternatives to Pinterest – Darts, Tacks and Montages for Men
According to a recent study by Pew, it was found that 25% of women used Pinterest compared to just 5% of men. For men who complain about a lesser number of masculine pins, here’s some good news. The...
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Social Media Privacy Policies Come With Unexpected Loopholes
sharpner / Shutterstock.com By now, most users think they know the social privacy media privacy landscape, but a Canadian research project found some surprising loopholes in the companies’ privacy...
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Check Out Mediabistro’s One-Hour Webcast Series
Short on time or a budget, but need to stay on top of the latest trends? Explore cutting-edge topics and programs that can help your business–and your career–take off in our new one-hour webcast...
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Google+ Has More User Accounts Than Twitter
Ahmad Faizal Yahya / Shutterstock.com Google+ now hosts more user accounts than Twitter, according to a survey [pdf] conducted in March by Burst Media. The study, which gained attention today when the...
View ArticlePinterest Best Practices For Greater Success
Have you been engaging in Pinterest social media marketing aggressively but with very limited success? You are not alone; thousands of webmasters spend a lot of time in Pinterest social media marketing...
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MyPermissions Launches App Privacy Certification Program
MyPermissions, an Israeli Web and mobile app company, today launched a Trust Certification program that requires app developers flagged by its users for good privacy practices to sign a legally binding...
View ArticleHow To Install A Pinterest Tab On Your Facebook Fan Page – 3 Simple Steps
Though Facebook and Twitter seem to get the entire buzz these days there are other social networks that are worth looking into if you want to boost your business’ social [...]
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5 Things Brands Should Know About Pinterest
“Pinterest is the Google of the visual web,” said Piqora CEO Sharad Verma. Piqora, formerly called Pinfluencer, is an enterprise discovery marketing and analytics suite for Pinterest that works with...
View ArticleHow to Verify Websites On Pinterest?
Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social media sites today and using this platform, you will be able to share images that you find interesting online. There are three major categories of...
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Podcast: Pinterest Tips | NASA on Twitter | OpenDyslexic Font
On today’s social media edition of the Morning Media Menu, GalleyCat editor Jason Boog discussed how social media is changing the world. A free, open-sourced font called OpenDyslexic could make the web...
View ArticleThe Best And Worst Times To Post On Social Networks
I post a great amount of content on the social networks every week and one thing I have noticed is that timing is everything. The amount of news shared on the social networks on a day-to-day basis is...
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Interactive Quiz: Identify Our Favorite Social Sites by Their Color Schemes
Let’s talk about color. If you were on the internet during the week of June 13, 2013, you probably heard a small uproar from designers in the wake of Apple’s iOS 7 design – not because the technology...
View ArticlePower of Open Boards On Pinterest
We have always been emphasizing that if you want to be successful with your social media marketing efforts you should stop operating like an island and start working with the other users and by...
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Emails Apparently From Pinterest Actually Drop Blackhole Malware
Everybody is copying Pinterest’s look — even hackers. Security firm Trend Micro reports that hackers have turned to emails designed to look like they are from Pinterest to lure users into clicking the...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of a Popular Pinterest Photo
Social media is a great way for us as designers to share our work with others online. Possibly the best platform for this is Pinterest. While most other social media revolves around text or sharing...
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How Parents Can Use Pinterest To Keep Kids Learning Over the Summer
It’s summer time, kids are out of school, and parents are likely looking for ways to keep them busy. It would be nice if they were learning too, no? One fantastic resource for parents is Pinterest...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Zimmerman Social Media Reaction | No Hulu Sale
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Social Media’s Reaction to the Acquittal of George Zimmerman (The New York Times/The Lede) As The New York Times’ Michael Schwirtz...
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Adobe Puts Social First in Redesigned Marketing Cloud
Adobe today launched a rebuilt Adobe Social, which introduces data-driven tips on how to optimize social content, integration with Flickr, Foursquare, Instagram and LinkedIn, and cloud-hosted workplace...
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