Pinterest is yet another new social bookmarking site on the web. Its hook is that instead of bookmarking sites into lists of links as on Delicious or Google Bookmarks, you can “pin” images from webpages onto different “boards.” So you can quickly glance at a set of images to find what you're looking for, instead of reading through a list of links. You can decide how many boards you want, and what to name them.
The "social" part is that you can follow other accounts and see what other people are pinning onto their boards. You can follow all of someone's boards, or just a few, and "repin" images that they've posted, and pin them onto your own boards.
My children's library blogger colleagues and I started a Pinterest account to collect our "Flannel Friday" flannelboard ideas. Because it is visual, it is so easy to scan and see which ideas you might want to use yourself.
You don't need a Pinterest account to go look! Here's the Flannel Friday boards. You'll see a page with thumbnail images of each board. Click in the middle of a board you're interested in to see the images in a larger size.
A great thing about Pinterest is that when you "repin" someone else's image, the image maintains its link to the original website or post. So not matter how many times an image has been passed along, you can always go all the way back to the primary source.
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This is too cool for words. It feels daunting to set something like this up, but what an amazing resource once you do. I love the visual aspect and that you don't lose the link either. I would be interested to find out what other kinds of things people create boards about. Thanks for introducing us to this, Melissa!
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