Education 2.0 & 3.0

Pinterest has slowly been building itself up as an advertising alternative to Google and Facebook over the past 12 months.

The company’s focus has historically been on building an engaged user base through its intuitive, visual interface. As a social network, it has always offered something a little different.

However, advertisers have been skeptical about whether Pinterest could ‘monetize’ this model, due to the nature of engagements users have and also the demographics that typically spend time on the site.

Those concerns have not been allayed altogether, but Pinterest has made some fascinating moves of late. They have launched a paid search partnership with Kenshoo, completely upgraded their visual search capabilities, and expanded their reach by adding a new Google Chrome extension.

Via Jeff Domansky

Pinterest may be one of the most fun social media platforms to use, many small business owners and solo-entrepreneurs are still reluctant to use it. Is it because they don't understand how it works? No. To me, it has a lot more to do with a lack of inspiration. "What should I share there," people often ask me. "I don't have any ideas."