Pinterest

Spot a great brand in action? Want to share your favourite brand? Inspired by a new brand? Please share your images on my new #WGBD Pinterest board — or tag your Twitter or Instagram posts with the hashtag #WGBD and I’ll make sure they get added to the board. Images of anything — a product, a sign, packaging, a store, a logo, a person, an ad — are welcome. 

Sure, in the early days of social you may have added Facebook as a link button, then you might have dabbled with video and extended out to Youtube, of course you realized early that Twitter brought something new to the table and now, what’s out there that is important enough to be called out?

Over the past 12 months, Pinterest has witnessed explosive growth. The site has topped 23 million unique visitors and average site visit time is nearly 100 minutes per month, making it one of the largest and most engaging social networks around. AdAge raves that “…Pinterest has gone from relative obscurity to exalted status alongside Facebook and Twitter…”

Over the past 12 months, Pinterest has witnessed explosive growth. The site has topped 23 million unique visitors and average site visit time is nearly 100 minutes per month, making it one of the largest and most engaging social networks around. AdAge raves that  “…Pinterest has gone from relative obscurity to exalted status alongside Facebook and Twitter…”

I’ve written a lot recently about the growth of the visual web – how the big social media success stories of 2011/2012 were visual, and how imagery is becoming more important online.

I’m fortunate enough that the tools of my job happen to be things I personally enjoy.  Instagram has become my main network of choice, I check twitter first and last thing every day (and several times in between) and recently I’ve even (finally) come to appreciate Google+.

by: Chris Russell, via the Marketo blog

Want the skinny on using Pinterest to promote your b2b marketing?  Follow these five tips and kick-start your brand’s expansion into this emerging social media phenomenon.

post by: Jon Stokes

New Chinese social media sites have long been inspired by popular sites and trends from the West, such as Facebook’s distant cousin Renren and Twitter’s brother Sina Weibo.  It is no surprise then that they have embraced Pinterest with both arms.