Pinterest

I love Pinterest and I could waste so.much.time. on it, so I have to limit myself to ~~playing~~ working on it a few minutes each day.

I have a Pinterest strategy with pinning, boards, organizing, and marketing.

I love Pinterest for recipes, homeschool ideas, and holiday themes.

I started out pinning what I liked – like a virtual bulletin board.

It was fun, addictive, and a huge time waster. I loved every second. And then, the comparison hit and I felt like a loser, a failure. The craft and food porn I viewed on Pinterest made me feel more and more less than. I realized I could never compete.

So I took a Pinterest break and reevaluated how this could be used for my blogging and personal life better.

I very strictly limit myself to a few minutes each day pinning pins on Pinterest. I scan through the homepage and then I search for hashtags to repin that are relevant. I love the “send a pin” feature and my husband and daughter and friends often send me pins that they think I’ll like. And I use that feature a lot to send pins I find that make me think of others.

I have public boards for all my interests.

School subjects, boards about parenting and homemaking, WAHM boards for blogging and essential oils. I try to limit my boards to under 200, but it’s so hard! I recently combined some boards and deleted others that were merely silly little personal boards. I contribute to many boards and I just can’t let go. And I can’t figure out why my little bacon board is so, so popular!

I organize my boards.

Each month and season so that the first 14 visible on my profile are relevant. These are the first boards a reader sees, so I want them to be interested! I have toyed with ABC order and ordering by subject. I have them mostly organized by topic now. I have food boards together and blogging boards in a line and homeschool boards by units and all my Christian boards in a row. I put my contributor boards at the bottom since they don’t benefit me so much from being at the top of my profile.

I use Pinterest for marketing.

I have a Pinterest business account. I can use tools (like rich pins and widget builder) and get analytics for my pins.

I market pins for brands and my own blog content and I help other bloggers by pinning their content. I’m a member of Ahalogy and use Viraltag to schedule pins. I work as a virtual assistant and pin for another blogger. I love that job!

I discuss Pinterest Marketing Basics here. I love my Pinterest readers and it’s such a fun tool to use for business!

Here are some of my Pinterest boards that are really popular:

Jennifer Lambert’s board Leadership on Pinterest.
Jennifer Lambert’s board Parenting on Pinterest.

Here’s my post on Homeschooling with Pinterest.

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Pinterest has a plethora of fun schooling activities – most from bloggers and moms way more creative than I. I have fun exploring and try to actually implement some of my finds with my kids.

I have Pinterest boards for different school subjects, different learning levels, crafts, recipes, unit studies, and themes.

Here are some of my boards:

My boards with lots of pins from all around:

Preschool:
Follow Jennifer Lambert’s board Preschool.

History Learning (I have history boards for each year in our cycle and a US board too!):

Follow Jennifer Lambert’s US History board.

Science Learning: Follow Jennifer Lambert’s board Science.

English/Language Arts Learning: Follow Jennifer Lambert’s board Language Arts .

Math Learning: Follow Jennifer Lambert’s board Math Journals.

All Those Extras That Give Life Meaning

Art:
Follow Jennifer Lambert’s board Art.

Music:
Follow Jennifer Lambert’s board Music.

Nature study:
Follow Jennifer Lambert’s board Nature Study.

Pinterest is great for finding great school material and I use it weekly to supplement our curriculum. I try not to get discouraged that I’m not as creative as these other moms!

I also love finding new recipes to try and often send pins to my daughter that I think will inspire her in school and life.

Check out some other Pinterest Homeschooling tips:

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