Maybe my new favorite band. Where have I been?
Dammit if I don’t love Joey Cook. You may know him from Pomegranates fame—his quirky vox and clever song-writing helped put that band on the map. I could listen to him all the live long day. Follow his tumblr for all the goods. He does drawings too, people. I mean. Swoon.
Walking off into the sunset. My lil’ cuz married. (Taken with Instagram at Eagle Ridge Golf Club)
#Beauty is being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick ass red lipstick. -Gwyneth Paltrow (Taken with instagram)
Okay #Beck. My girl’s name is Tuesday, too. I guess we can hang. (Taken with instagram)
Typical.
It’s like this and like that and like this and uh. @lujorecords #music (Taken with instagram)
Oh yes I did.
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Meghan M. Biro, from 5 “Foot” Steps to Creating Brand Appeal on Forbes
Okay, Pinterest. Let’s do this!
People like to say that creativity is about freeing your mind. Or opening your mind. I’ve never been much for either of those things. My mind is free and open enough as it is, let me tell you. I think far more important than either of these things in terms of letting creativity flow, is quieting your mind, so you can hear yourself think and let your ideas, well, be heard.
That’s why they sell these. And for shizzle, I need one of those for my nizzle. (Channeling Snoop, don’t worry about it.)
Raise your hand if you love Pinterest? I know, dope, right? So fun. So addictive. I love Pinterest on a personal level - pinning images that inspire me, learning about my world. But as a Community and Social Media manager who also uses the platform in business. Man, that is really what has taken my love of it to new heights. I mean, cue the dramatic music. Somebody? I think anything Celine would work.
What I really love about the platform is the “voice” it gives content curators. For those of us in the trenches, digging out the content gems for the world, Pinterest’s platform is perfection. It really is just like that bomb dot com corkboard I had in my bedroom growing up. Except virtual. And I also get to have one for my company.
The repin is really what gets me all aflutter. As a somewhat obsessive blogger (I think I’ve started close to a dozen blogs over the past 5 years), the one place where I’ve always been disappionted is engagement. I’d get so many hits on my blog, but comments? Not so much. Pinterest is like micro blogging with macro benefits: a built-in audience and - oh yeah - the glorious “repin.”
Can we just talk about the repin for a second? I love it. Few things have thrilled me more in recent years than when this pin of mine hit 100 repins…then 200. I know that’s small potatoes compared to the amount of times some things have been repinned on Pinterest, but for a girl like me who’s motivated by engagement, this was like striking Content Curator gold.
Now let’s go back to the shizzle I need for my nizzle.
I was having a moment of quiet when I thought, “What about reBOARDING??” So we have the repin, and we have boards that users can collaborate on (which if you read me, you know what collaboration means in my world) but what if users could reboard their entire board, like a feed. I mean, how into that would the content creators of the world be? If I’m thrilled by a repin, how much more thrilling would it be to have a user reboard an entire board of mine?
I think something like this would make everyone curate better content - and it might even find some content curators in our midsts who didn’t know they were ones! And if you want to really know what I’m thinking, (and you do if you’re still reading), I can see this totally rolled out social ecommerce style, where users get paid for the numbers of views on boards. Maybe boards become the new mags - content curators the new publishers? Advertisers would have a hay day. Maybe this is the way the magazine industry comes back to life? I’m spinning out of control now, but it’s a good idea, right?
Pinterest, you reading this? What do you think?
#DumDumGirls gettin’ me high. (Taken with Instagram at Slim’s)
The #tea party continues. Coveted seats, man. Coveted seats. (Taken with instagram)
This precious thing just hugged my leg and said “Mama, you’re my best friend. And my best Mama.” Well, kid, I’ll drink ta that! (Taken with instagram)
