Pinterest

Pinning & Re-Pinning into a New World of Adventure with 

Exploring Pinterest was more exciting than using my personal favorite social media site Facebook. I had no idea the many different possibilities and features I was able to use so easily. Pinterest basically works just like a corkboard, any information that you find of interest can be “pinned” to any virtual board and you can create a endless amount of boards as a user.

Through Pinterest users are able to connect with others by sharing content in a unique and visual way. The set up for Pinterest was pretty simple and very resourceful for providing information in forms of infographics (images), quotes, healthy eat tips, workout plans and so much more all in the form of boards.

Boards are created for users to pin things of their interest and share items about information they want other users to know more about. Once your board is successfully created you are allowed to follow users’ boards and get creative ideas from their home pages. The unique concept about pinning another user board is that when they pin new content then the updates will constantly appear in your Pinterest feed. This means that you will be updated on the new items pertaining to that topic from other users.

Health Organizations can use Pinterest to draw more interest and engagement with their organizations because they are allowed to put pictures with their related information. Pinterest is an effective way to provide health information in a creative way to users especially through infographics. 

According to the Department of Health and Human Services Department of Health and Human Services article,  it states that infographics are images that convey information both verbally and visually to users. There meaning is conveyed through these images which allow organizations to be different in sharing their information and meaning through various graphics.

Through Pinterest health organizations have the ability to:

1.      Clearly define their purpose

2.      Present clips from their organization events

3.      Pin photo and testimonials

4.      Create eye catchy boards with their organization services

5.      Pin for conversation

After exploring various boards on Pinterest I came across the HIV/AIDS boards as being very successfully and informative for users. This goal of this board was to get people to say “No to HIV/AIDS” by raising awareness of the disease and recommending helpful ways to stay protected. They have 204 pins and 1, 124 followers which is actually inspiring that people are trying to change the epidemic affecting the world so drastically.

The boards provide a lot inspirational sayings and protective methods for practicing safer sex. Statistics and facts are listed about what the disease as done to so many people in the world. One dynamic feature provided is the AIDS World Day that is held nationwide to raise awareness for AIDs and brings people across to celebrate and engage in commemoration for those who were lost to the disease.

The information provided is clear and well organized. Users can easily navigate through these boards and the infographics make the boards even more interesting. I would consider there pinterest overall to be very informative and great usage of creative images to engage people in saying No to HIV/AIDS and being protected.

Overall, Pinterest is one of my new favorite social media platforms because it provides users with a lot of information and you can basically research any board that you would like. I like really like the idea that once I pin information of interest to me then updates will appear in my Pinterest newsfeed. I am exciting for the features and creative methods Pinterest have already created. I look forward to seeing more and more success with this platform grow every day.