All about Pinterest: Novice guide to hot new social network
Pinterest has been one of the hottest social networking site; it garnered 11 million visitors in the week of a dec.17 alone. The site has also cracked the current list of top 10 social networks and it’s technically ‘invite only’.
What Pinterest is all about?
Pinterest is a virtual pinboard that lets you share, discuss and organize interesting things you find all in your life such as pictures and videos. You can create pins in any imaginable topics, from table cloths to trendy rides to Nasa missions; possibilities are endless. Once you know your interests, you can manage them in pinboards.
Organize all your interests in pinboards
What makes it interesting?
Pinterest currently has a rapidly growing user base that tweets and shares pins across the web that are beginning to spread like wildfire. People use pinboards to decorate their homes, plan their weddings, collect inspiration for designing projects, and organize favorite recipes and so much more. As your interests or ‘Pins’ can be managed in almost 32 wide categories.
Add pins to your pinboards
Uplift your business by selling pins
Add a $ or £ to the pin description and Pinterest will automatically add a price banner to the photo. The pin will then appear in the gifts category, within the pin, remember to link to the website where fans can buy. Just remember to remove the pin once you’ve sold out!
boost your business by selling pins
Increase your Blogs or Website traffic
It’s no secret that all Pinterest manages all pins in thumbnails, so the pin needs be just attractive as the content it’s linked to. That’s right when adding a pin, you can link it to your website or ‘post a pin from a URL’. With sites like Pinterest it’s not only possible to promote yourself but also get encouraged.
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Pinterest on mobile
Pinterest is also available through an official iphone application or you can also use the mobile version in m.pinterest.com.
iphone application for Pinterest
What’s the social angle?
When you create your Pinterest account, you can choose to connect your Twitter and facebook accounts, along with your personal website. Not only do the account widgets appear below your profile bio, but you can also choose to share your pins across the networks or embed them into your website.
Social angle of Pinterest
How do I join Pinterest?
At present Pinterest is invite only, you can join by either requesting an invite directly through Pinterest or receiving an invitation from a user that is currently registered on Pinterest. Once you request an invite Pinterestsends you an invite within a few days. Feel free to leave a comment here and I’ll try to send as many invites as I can. Happy Pinning!!
Request an invite in Pinterest
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Use Google Blog Search for better and fresh search results
Use Google Blog Search for better and fresh search results
I first came across this simple and effective blog search engine from Google through ‘Social Media Examiner’, thanks to their fantastic list of ’12 Social media tools recommended by the pros’. Google blog search is a special Google blog search engine that indexes nothing but blogs, whether you’re looking for internet marketing tips, book reviews, sports news, recipes or anything else, it provides information in any topic.
What it’s good for?
Search results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger; the blog index is continually updated, so search results are always fresh and up-to-date. You can search not just for blogs written in English but in any of the 35 specific languages using the advanced search options; also by default search results include blogs written in all languages.
Google blogs core feature is that it shows you not only how many different blogs have written about a particular topic, but also within what period of time. It also blends in some of Google’s trends prowess to show you how a story’s prominence has increased or decreased by the hour. What I like most about it is that it features the most popular stories in the blogosphere on Blog search homepage.
Getting listed in Google blog search:-
If your blog publishes a site feed, then you can set up automatic pinging for your blog or manually submit your blog for inclusion. Google periodically crawls and refreshes manually added blogs.
Google blog search is an ideal tool to explore the blogging universe more effectively; it’s never been so easy to find relevant blogs for writing ideas and to comment on.
Photoshop painting effect with shades of color
My evenings are always well spent on little writing; and a chat with a special friend that lasts for hours. Yes, that’s an everyday affair!! With 11 hours of load shedding round the corner, I struggle to make my younger sister realize the importance of laptop’s battery life which she misuses milking imaginary cows in Farmville. There are times I fight for it WWE way!!
This particular day, my friend couldn’t make it to come online. Thanks to load shedding!!
I’ve been used to hitting off for bed late; moreover, it’s not a cool idea to sing myself a lullaby when I’m furious. Coz, that’s when I end up with dreams of science and math classes all over again. With nothing much to do, I started clicking through all the folders in my system and came across this sketch that I had drawn back in my school days. As I was trying to open it, it opened with Photoshop CS3; my once pleasant company.
Attempting to kill boredom, I started playing around with few Photoshop tools in the sketch. I pretty much like the end result that’s come on sketch with only a few touches of color; it’s colorful and vibrant.
Here’s how you can add similar Photoshop effect to your drawings or photographs (It’s easy and only takes few minutes):-
- Open your work in Photoshop and navigate to Filter > Artistic > Fresco
- Add a new layer with a blend mode set to ‘color’.
- Lastly apply gradient to the new layer with different shades of color as per your choice.
Load shedding at least did some good, it helped revive my love for Photoshop; mostly it’s inspired an important category on ‘My Blog’ .i.e. ‘Art and Photoshop’. Hopefully I can share some more Photoshop manipulation tips in the days to come through this section.
Have you got great Photoshop art manipulations tips or work that you’d like to share?
Photoshop art manipulation with gradient tool
Social Commerce with AspxCommerce
As described by the Forbes“2012is primed to be the year of social”; we understand that social media is absolutely crucial for an online business to explore new heights and help a merchant succeed in the web arena. Social media allows you to engage more customers, have new businesses, and most importantly, extract invaluable customer’s feedback that will in turn motivate other customers to use your service. This will eventually lead into increased sales.One of the significant aspects of AspxCommerce e-commerce solution is the Social Commerce feature. Features that offer your e-commerce site a perfect environment for users to interact and share their opinion.
It’s not the company’s website or Facebook or Twitter account that drives new customer to join your service, but the consumer feedback states nielsenwire. AspxCommerce community edition offers efficient social media tools such as Ratings & Reviews, Compare, Wishlist, Email a friend, SocialBookmarks and Product tags right out of the box. These feature help your customers compare quality of products, share their opinion about a product,share in social media, gather instant feedback and most importantly, shop with ease. Furthermore, as you’ll have real-time access to your customer behavior at your fingertips you need not wait for long to know the feedback or the trend developing in the consumption of information on your site. Therefore an advantage to publish the positive feedback to encourage potential buyers is always at hand. Meanwhile, you can also work towards improving the shortcomings suggested by customers.
Hence, we, the AspxCommerce team, have integrated all the essential social tools required for your e-commerce store to keep your visitors engaged as well as make your site more livelier and . Therefore using the AspxCommerce community edition with a social view-point can be a win-win situation for you as a Merchant and your customers as well.
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