Articles tagged with pinterest

Social Media Tips : Pinterest Alternatives
Follow up to my post Netboard as an Alternative to Pinterest. My honest review of Netboard? It's not an alternative. It's a nice site though. What attracted me to the site was the fact that #affiliatelinks were allowed. But that's not enough to hold me th

Meet Juman Malouf, Author of 'The Trilogy of Two'
Juman Malouf has decided to publish her books for children. She is an accomplished designer and costumer who has shifted her career aspirations to hopefully become a successful author and illustrator. Bio-Snip: She was born in Beirut, Lebanon; gre

Explore Tumblr Using TumVue
If you're not a #Tumblr #blogger , this exciting find probably won't get you excited. But if you use Tumblr or were maybe curious and thinking about using this #blogging application, you might make a final decision based on a website that compiles your b

Legitimate Work From Home Opportunities
Received a lot of positive feedback on the post about My Job. Constantly on the lookout for various income opportunities and am on several mailing lists. This info arrived in my Inbox today. Was going to bookmark these links for later review and/or share

My Mid-Week Agenda Will Not Be Announced
It's Wednesday. Mid-week and I have plans. Not written in stone. But plans just the same. See the related posts below. Well here's the story behind them. Long time ago a Jewish friend of mine shared this proverb with me: “We make pl

Using the New Google Plus Collections Feature
Recently Google announced a new feature called “Collections” for members of the Google Plus network. The concept is very similar to #Pinterest . If you don't have a Pinterest account but you are on Google Plus, you might like the ability to gro

Discovering Your Scottish Roots
Pinterest is like a wonderful treasure chest filled with “goodies”. Sometimes you search and find wonders through intentional aim and purpose. Sometimes you accidentally stumble across a marvelous finding. One of my #Pinterest boards is labeled

My Weekend Agenda
This is a follow-up to a previous post: Already Shared? Repin and Hashtag It's on my #To Do List” however, the project went on a back burner because my other home business tasks kept screaming louder. A friend used to say: “Whichever makes t

Harnessing the potential of social media
I usually post 1-2 articles per day on this site. i have noticed that all activity...views and comments.. remain confined to just these couple of articles and my earlier posts all lay buried and forgotten. I wish there was some way our older posts would

Productive Day at Persona Paper
The banter that I have with everyone and the things that I learn here in Persona Paper, those are priceless and those are things that I truly treasure. Writing in the site has opened my eyes to new worlds. Worlds that I wouldn't normally see on my own. I j

Already Shared? Repin and Hashtag
Glad to have found this site, PersonaPaper.com . In searching for something to read, you can always quickly glance the home page to see “Most Recent” posts. Trying to do organic search for posts to read via Google, Bing or Yahoo or some other s

Netboard as an Alternative to Pinterest
As stated in a previous post, some folks are Pinterest-crazy. Other folks? Not so much. Netboard.me can be an alternative to Pinterest. Surprised? It was a surprise to me because Pinterest doesn't seem to have hardly any competition. Netboards look like Pi

Are You on Pinterest?
Remember when Pinterest first came out and it was all the rage? I do!! Started March 2010; 5 years later, now it's worth over $3 billion. I've been with Pinterest almost from the beginning and they have allowed me to grow along. People used to say you had

Flitting Around from Site to Site and Writing Far into the Night
In case you've missed me, I have been trying to keep up with some new ventures lately. Most of them involve writing something. I am committed to one post each day for my Capturing the Paso Robles Area with My Camera blog, since to be in the Daily City Phot

Ornithologist? Nah! Ordinary Bird Lover
We can't all be qualified ornithologists. But it's easy for anybody to be a bird lover! Learned about the red cardinal, the blue jay, the robin, the mockingbird, the parrot, the toucan, the flamingo, etc. in elementary school. Additionally, in Mi

Pinterest Error Message: Oops! Sorry, we were unable to fetch the image.
I've had a Pinterest error message this morning - while trying to pin my last article onto the board. It had a lovely photo, one I'd taken myself - and yet when I tried to pin it, I got the error message of "Oops! Sorry, we were unable to fetch

My Valentine's Day on Pinterest
Valentine's Day is super fun! Two of my favorite things: #hearts and #doves. Want any excuse to share them. Searching around for images related to the holiday we celebrate every February 14th, in order to share via my blogs, in my social networks or other

Stop Making Assumptions, Website Owners!
I've just been doing some research for an #article, and so I've been surfing the web, visiting places I never usually go. One such place is #Pinterest, and I have to say I am not impressed with their 'marketing'. I clicked on the search engine entry of t

Where Do You Have the Most Success Promoting Your Writing or Other Business?
Where Do You Have the Most Success Promoting Your Writing or Other Business?

Cleaning Up My RebelMouse
Last night I saw a link to my RebelMouse page in my list of Tweets to reuse and schedule. I hadn't been there in months, so I decided to see what was posted and saw too much that should not be there. I spent hours after that cleaning it up. If you

My Persona Paper board on Pinterest
I have created a Persona Paper board on Pinterest where I hope to promote my own posts and those by other members of this site. You can check it out here: http://www.pinterest.com/gtausif/my-persona-paper/ It is just the beginning so please don't feel sa
Making the Most of Your Pins on Pinterest
#Pinterest is supposed to be the best generator of traffic to your writing or products. But you have to be smart about #pinning if this is to work. First, you should be checking your boards for dead links. Since #Squidoo, Yahoo Voices, and some other site

Ladies and Gents -- Images or Photos on Posts, Please!
I enjoy sharing to Pinterest and have modest success there with promoting my own and others' posts and articles. There are doubtless other writers here who do the same. The problem? We can't share your posts to Pinterest without an image or a picture in t
I Just Learned Something New About Pinterest
I was trying to pin Padstow by &Fractal using the pin-it button on my browser onto my #Pinterest Favortites from Persona Paper board. I noticed it was going on with only “mine,” which must be a default, in the description. So I pasted