With 11.7 million users, Pinterest is emerging as an online tool that people in a variety of occupations — including writers– can use to market themselves.
Pinterest lets you save images that you create yourself (like the screenshot I’m using to illustrate this post), or photos you find online onto “boards” that you can organize as you see fit. You can use Pinterest to follow other people and share, comment or “Like” what they’re sharing. You also share images you’re saving on Pinterest with your Twitter or Facebook following by linking your accounts on all three services.
“If you’re in a creative or design field, it’s an amazing place to build a portfolio or create a visual resume,” InsideJobs.com Managing Editor Annie Favreau told me in a Pinterest story I wrote recently for SecondAct.com.
If you’re already using Pinterest to promote yourself and your freelance work, or just curious about how to start, please join me for the next WordCount Last Wednesday writer chat on Wednesday, June 27 at 10 a.m. Pacific time. We’ll spend an hour talking all things Pinterest as they relate to freelancers, bloggers and other writers.
Questions for #wclw Pinterest chat
For the 60-minute chat, we’ll start with introductions, move to some pre-set questions and leave time at the end for discussion.
Here are the questions:
- How are you using Pinterest today?
- What’s your biggest Pinterest success story?
- Are you using Pinterest as a resume or to share portfolio of your work? If so, please share a link.
- What’s your secret for getting people to follow you or re-pin what you’re sharing?
- What advice would you give Pinterest beginners?
- What more would you like to know about Pinterest?
How to join the #wclw chat
To join the #wclw chat, all you need is a Twitter account and free time from 10 to 11 a.m. PDT on June 27. Use the hashtag to follow tweets related to the chat. It’s possible to use the standard Twitter interface , but you might find it easier using a Twitter application such as TweetGrid, TweetChat or HootSuite. Of those three, my favorite is TweetChat, which you can log into using your Twitter account. You might want to alert followers that you’ll be tweeting more than usual during the chat, and suggest they use Muuter.com to temporarily mute you if they don’t want to tune into the conversation.
If you’re unable to join us, I’ll post a complete transcript of the chat on Wednesday afternoon.
Got an idea for a future #wclw chat? Would you like to participate as a guest speaker? Send your idea or bio to me at wordcountfreelance@gmail.com.