{"id":109,"date":"2012-10-08T14:59:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T14:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2013-01-30T02:45:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T02:45:11","slug":"pinterest-becoming-a-hot-stop-for-aussie-networkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/2012\/10\/pinterest-becoming-a-hot-stop-for-aussie-networkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinterest Becoming a Hot Stop for Aussie Networkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pinterest<\/a><\/p>\n

There is a new phenomenon called \u201cDIY Networking,\u201d because the engines of social media engine can be used by those without much media or technical sophistication, addressing a new \u201csocial media audience\u201d that is used to interacting on Facebook, for example.<\/p>\n

For networkers looking for a new, hip, and less intrusive avenue of networking than Facebook,\u00a0 Pinterest is gaining interest in Australia and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Pinterest has been called \u201celectronic scrapbooking,\u201d although with a worldwide audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I think is great about Pinterest is its amazing ability to connect people in a very non-standard social network way<\/em>,\u201d said Tony Benner, a public relations consultant. \u201cClothing retailers, wedding planners and graphic designers are among the swelling business crowd joining the popular social-media site, which lets users \u2018pin\u2019 images of items that interest them to their profiles<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pinterest Is Engaging<\/h3>\n

Some commentators are predicting that Pinterest will eventually become more popular than Facebook or Twitter, but Benner said they\u00a0complement each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Pinterest, you don\u2019t have to have a conversation and you are not expected to comment every time someone pins something or shares something you enjoy<\/em>,\u201d Benner explained.<\/p>\n

For those just starting out, Benner recommends starting with one or two boards and keeping them fairly general.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor DIY Networkers, Pinterest is an excellent way of promoting your business interests in a subtle way, but don\u2019t be too blatant or you will turn people away,<\/em>\u201d Benner explained.<\/p>\n

According to trade publication PR Daily, Pinterest is retaining and engaging users as much as two to three times as efficiently as Twitter was at a similar time in its history and accounts for 3.6 percent of referral traffic, while Twitter just barely edges Pinterest, accounting for 3.61 percent of referral traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a new phenomenon called \u201cDIY Networking,\u201d because the engines of social media engine can be used by those without much media or technical sophistication, addressing a new \u201csocial media audience\u201d that is used to interacting on Facebook, for example. For networkers looking for a new, hip, and less intrusive avenue of networking than Facebook,\u00a0 Pinterest is gaining interest in Australia and elsewhere. Pinterest has been called \u201celectronic scrapbooking,\u201d although with a worldwide audience. \u201cWhat I think is great about Pinterest is its amazing ability to connect people in a very non-standard social network way,\u201d said Tony Benner, a public relations consultant. \u201cClothing retailers, wedding planners and graphic designers are among the swelling business crowd joining the popular social-media site, which lets users \u2018pin\u2019 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[42,41,930],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","tag-networking","tag-pinterest","tag-social-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}