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Plan Events, Life Goals or Outfits with Pinterest

I have an obsession lately, it's Pinterest.

When I'm working it calls my name. When i'm relaxing it entices me. When I'm thinking about my goals it gives me a place to make them more real by turning them into pictures. For event professionals and anyone who collects information or makes plans, it can make the process easier and fun.

What is it?  It's a site that allows you to collect pictures that serve as links to sites on the internet.  These pictures are posted on boards, much like bulletin boards, but online.  With Pinterest you can create boards for different categories and you can post as many pins to your boards as you like. 

For instance I have a food board:

and a self sufficient house and home board 

and a DIY board.   

The beauty of all this is that when you post a pin, you are collecting a link to a site that could be very useful to you. And unlike other content collecting sites, the visuals make it easy to see what kind of information you have at a glance. So no longer do I have to guess what tag I used to find an article I've saved. I just have to know the general topic that the site would fall under.  I look at the board for that topic and immediately know what is there by the pictures posted on it.

But that's me, the information collector talking.  Pinterest is also wonderful for creating inspiration boards where you can post pictures of ideas for events you are planning. In fact, one of the most popular ways to use it is for planning weddings.

As an event planner you might want to create your own, food board, activities board or boards with event themes. Having these pictures and links as you share your ideas with vendors could be quite handy.

A few features for you to explore on Pinterest include:

* It's a social media site. You can follow the activity of friends. I follow quite a few event professionals on pinterest and theirs are really the most interesting Pinterest boards I've seen.

* You can search through Pinterest boards that others have created according to category.

* You can upload a Pin It button to your tool bar. Whenever you come across an interesting image you want to pin, just click on the button!

Pinterest is for collecting images first.  The links are a valuable icing on the cake.  So if you want to pin a link to a site that has no good images, I'm afraid you're out of luck. Or at least that's been my experience.

But for those of us who collect magazines for cutting pictures to post in scrap books, idea notebooks or life planning journals, Pinterest could be an online dream come true. Check it out and let me know what you think!

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