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How bloggers and their families are making healthy oral care a lifetime habit

How bloggers and their families are making healthy oral care a lifetime habit

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A fabulous team of The Motherhood bloggers today kicked off the LISTERINE® Healthy Habits for a Lifetime Oral Care Challenge 2012. Get ready for beautiful, sparkling, HEALTHY smiles across the nation, folks.

 

For three weeks, the bloggers and their families are challenged to commit to healthy oral care habits – and they are already jumping in with such creative, fun and inventive ideas!

 

The Motherhood has partnered with the makers of LISTERINE® and REACH®, who are supporting the American Heart Association’s My Heart. My Life.TM initiative, with the common goal in mind to educate and empower Americans to make positive lifestyle choices each day – including good oral care!

 

In an information-packed conference call last week with Johnson & Johnson oral care experts, we learned so many critical reasons good oral care is a must-do, non-negotiable, daily routine for everyone in the family.

 

As Sara, Dealicious Mom wrote on her blog, “Did you know that brushing alone misses 75% of your mouth? Or that 50% of children will have a cavity or filling between the ages of 5 and 9? I know this sure makes me think twice about what I’m doing as a mom to help keep my mouth and my family’s mouths healthy! Since February is National Children’s Dental Health Month, there’s no better time to start re-thinking how you and your family take care of your mouths.”

 

We love what the bloggers are already sharing – it is so motivational, and fun! Team Momma Findings looks ready to go!

 

 

 

Yay Team Staten Island Family! How cute is this video!?!

 

 

The One Bored Mommy Team already has flossing, brushing and rinsing DOWN!

 

 

 

Keeping track of their progress – WAY TO GO Team LA Story!

 

 

To read along as the bloggers and their families take the LISTERINE® Healthy Habits for a Lifetime Oral Care Challenge, follow the hashtag #HealthyHabits. They are sharing important information, and really helpful tips and ideas to get you and your family on an awesome path to oral health and wellness!

 

Here are a few tips from pediatric dentist Dr. Kaneta Lott to get your kids started on the path to great oral care:

 

1) Make oral care fun! For example, make it a game; brush, floss and rinse to music; etc.

 

2) Reward good oral care behavior. One option would be using a printable calendar and gold stars to track progress.

 

3) Show, don’t tell. Make oral care a family affair and brush, floss and rinse with your kids.

 

To learn more about the American Heart Association’s My Heart. My Life.™ initiative, visit www.MyHeartMyLife.org.

 

To hear more about improving your oral care routine and see an educational message from professional snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler, visit www.Listerine.com. (Coming Soon!)

 

Thanks to LISTERINE, REACH and our top-notch blogger team, we’re feeling very inspired to clean up our oral care acts, how about you?

Navigating Hypothyroidism

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About seven years ago, a few months after my youngest was born, I started to notice my hair was getting thinner, my hands and feet were constantly ice cold – even on hot days, I was anxious, tired, could not sleep, I had really weird heart palpitations and I was gaining weight. I was also so, terribly depressed.

 

One doctor told me to go on Xanax.  Another made some reference to the fact I had just had a baby and sent me on my way. It was a dark time, especially since I had four kids under 7 years old, my husband was on the road for work constantly, and I had never felt so lost emotionally or physically.

 

Finally I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease in which the thyroid gland is gradually destroyed. Hashimoto’s is the leading cause of hypothyroidism in the U.S. (and it hits us middle aged women the hardest.)

 

I went on Synthroid and, well, that was that.

 

My baby is about to turn 8 and I’m still freezing most of the time, my hair’s a mess and the scale continues to head in the wrong direction. I’m not depressed any more and I rarely have heart palpitations, but I still don’t feel “great!”

 

I’m also confused by it all. Do I have to be on Synthroid forever? Am I supposed to take supplements or not? And do the foods I eat really matter (like I keep hearing we hypothyroid ladies need to avoid “goitrogens”?)

 

Oprah said she found out she was hypothyroid, went on vacation and rested for a month, and not too long later she was off meds? Huh?

 

I need answers and my guess, if you are dealing with being hypothyroid, you do too.

 

I’m reading The Hypothyroid Diet by Dr. Kevin Dobrzynski right now and I’m hoping I can intereview him for this blog. His wife was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and he put together a diet for her that he says works. Stay tuned.

 

I suspect a Live Talk here in The Motherhood on this subject is in order, too.

 

Are you dealing with hypothyroidism? Do you have insight or ideas on ways to successfully manage the disease? Do you have questions like I do and want to know where to begin? I’m eager to hear from you.

 

Feels like this could mean taking a step in the right direction, finally.

 

Click here for Update #1 to this post!

The Mometer Monday: Pinterest, Time for Me and The Motherhood Network

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We like to think of The Mometer as The Motherhood’s thermometer, taking the temperature of moms, how you’re all doing, what’s top of mind and even what might be coming down the pike.

 

You may have noticed our new “The Mometer” polls (you can see the latest polls here) which we love, especially because they help us get to know each other a little better.

 

Based on recent The Mometer polls, for example:

 

This community is exactly 50/50 split on the economy – half think we’re coming out of the recession and the other half say we are still in it, and are worried.

 

 

With last night’s wonderful season finale of Downton Abbey, we were not surprised that almost 50 percent of us say “OMG, yes” we’re obsessed with the show (and, OMG, how can they make us wait a full year for the new season!!!!!!!!!!?????)

 

 

For our new The Mometer Monday series, we’d like to share a few other topics that are particularly resonating among moms this week:

 

 

1.  Pinterest.  We held a live Talk in The Motherhood on Pinterest and it was clear:

 

-Pinterest is all about women, especially moms

-Pinterest is not necessarily for the uber-social media types — women who are “more Facebook” and “less Twitter” are flocking to it.

-People and organizations are using Pinterest in creative, cool and innovative ways.

 

From our live Talk we created Pinterest 101: A Crowd-Sourced User Manual, a fantastic resource on the platform, whether you’re a newbie, a seasoned user or a brand considering using it. Check it out!

 

 

2.  Taking #10Minutes for ourselves.  Social media moms get innumerable emails from publicists that lead off with …  ‘busy moms need a break’.  Clearly, the idea that we’re all overworked and over-tired has hit mainstream marketing messages, with the result that many of these emails get a collective eye-roll from the moms on the receiving end.

 

Having said that, however, when Christine Koh of Boston Mamas suggested creating a #10minutes for Me Challenge for moms to take just 10 minutes for themselves each day, moms piled into the Talk to share their best ideas and talk about why it’s so hard to do this.

 

Top #10Minutes ideas included:

 

-Read

-Get in the car and DRIVE

-Quiet – of any sort

-Stretch!

 

Read the full list here. And then take #10Minutes for yourself, K?

 

 

3.  The Motherhood blogger network. For years we have worked with the best of the best when it comes to mom bloggers, partnering with many before they were the stars they are today, and are so proud of the deep and lasting relationships we have formed with women across the blogosphere. The magic and quality content we create together is like nothing else on the web.

 

Timed with our new look and platform, we’ve created a more formal, official network of The Motherhood’s mom and dad bloggers, too.  If you are a blogger and would like to join our network, fill out this form to get started, send an email to [email protected] and we can get the ball rolling.

 

Have a great week everyone!

 

PS. Our design partners, Red Antler did a wonderful write-up on The Motherhood redesign and we wanted to share! You can read it here.

 

 

 

How Do You Spend #10Minutes of Me Time?

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Last week, in The Motherhood’s Work Life Balance Talk, Christine Koh of Boston Mamas suggested that what we all need to do is to take #10minutes for ourselves every day.

 

Of course, we all said ‘yes, great idea!’ right before saying, ‘darn, why is that so hard?’ So clever girl that she is, Christine suggested we all challenge ourselves to take just #10minutes a day to relax, do whatever we want, have fun, breathe, or take care of ourselves in some way.  Time just for us, without guilt.  And we could share with each other what we do with our time, how it feels and inspire each other along the way.

 

So, the #10minutes For Me Challenge was born.

 

Today in The Motherhood we kicked off the #10minutes for Me Challenge with a fantastic conversation among the most wonderful bloggers all sharing their favorite ways to carve out some time for themselves.  Now we are all charged up to actually DO IT, to take ten minutes every day for ourselves!

 

Check out their inspiring ideas and let us know how you most like to spend your #10minutes of downtime!

 

Twenty Ways To Take #10minutes for Yourself

 

1.) Run or Stretch.  “”A 10 minute run is better than no run … A 10 minute run feels awesome. You sweat and feel like you’ve done something, but it isn’t the commitment of spending an hour on the pavement.  But if you hate running, or don’t want to get sweaty, STRETCHING is one of the best things you can do for yourself.” – Christine, Boston Mamas

 

2.) Read a Book. “I read a lot. I’ll just sit on my bed and open a book. It lets me shut off everything else.” – temysmom

 

3.) Browse Pinterest. “I know I love to browse Pinterest in any free time I get – sometimes that leaks over into more than 10 minutes though!” – Tesa, 2 Wired 2 Tired

 

4.) Take Photos. “My everyday life is my muse. I use my photography (specifically Instagram) to get the little bursts of creative Me Time I need throughout the day. It works wonders for me!” – Tracey, Shutter Sisters

 

5.) Send a Card. “I try to send a card or letter to a friend once a week- #10minutes is all I need and it really lifts me up.” – Steph, Adventures in Babywearing

 

6.) Shower. “I take a hot shower with some aromatherapy! Peppermint is very invigorating!” – Diane, Turning the Clock Back

 

7.) Drive. “I enjoy ME time in my car!” – Liz, Thoughts of a Mommy

 

8.) Drink Tea. “I’ve started daily ‘tea time.’ The kids have figured out which kind they like. We sip tea, have a little snack, and then each person goes to their space for some quiet time.” – Julie, Using My Words

 

9.) Write. “I’ve started keeping a worry journal. Whenever I catch myself worrying about stuff, I write it down and save it for later. Clears my mind for more productive thinking, for a few minutes, anyway.” – Liz, This Full House

 

10.) Open a Magazine. “I’m such a magazine addict. HGTV Magazine is one of my new favorites. But I am starting to enjoy the style magazines like InStyle and Harper’s Bazaar.” – Mary, Everyday Baby Steps

 

11.) Get Outside. “In the summer, I weed the herb or flower gardens. It can be so relaxing to be outside in the nice weather playing in the dirt.” – Ellen, Confessions of an Overworked Mom

 

12.) Start a Playlist. “My new thing? Putting together playlists in Spotify. Finding new music, combining just the right songs in the right order and having a neat selection to listen to while working.” – Julie, Using My Words

 

13.) Make a Coffee Run. “Sometimes honestly my #10minutes is the car ride to the Starbucks drive-thru. My tunes, ALONE AND QUIET and caffeine.” – Steph, Adventures in Babywearing

 

14.) Walk the Dog. “Dogs are a great motivator to go walk. I call my walks “gratitude walks” and try to focus on all the things around me that I am grateful for. It’s a good perspective changer.” – Tracey, Shutter Sisters

 

15.) Phone a Friend. “I like to take #10minutes to call and catch up with a friend while waiting for kids in the carpool lane.” – Liz, This Full House

 

16.) Play Games. “I play Words With Friends or Sims Social on Facebook – such silly guilty pleasures.” – Mary, Everyday Baby Steps

 

17.) Do a Home Manicure. “I paint my nails. I’m always so impatient and can never wait for them to dry but if I had the time they just might come out perfect for once!” – Tesa, 2 Wired 2 Tired

 

18.) Knit. “My biggest ‘guilty pleasure’ for me time is knitting. Usually sneak it in more than #10minutes but it’s such a wonderful and fulfilling pastime.” – Steph, Adventures in Babywearing

 

19.) Hit the Stores. “I am going shopping for my #10minutes to finally spend some Christmas money.” – Ellen, Confessions of an Overworked Mom

 

20.) Power Nap. “My mom is a champ at taking a 10 minute nap and waking up feeling refreshed.” – Tesa, 2 Wired 2 Tired

 

 

Thanks to our host and co-hosts for setting aside #10minutes+ for this Talk!

 

Christine, Boston Mamas

Diane, Turning the Clock Back

Ellen, Confessions of an Overworked Mom

Jennifer, Mom Bloggers Club

Julie, Using My Words

Kami, Working Mom Fence

Lindsay, Rock & Roll Mama

Liz, This Full House

Liz, Thoughts of a Mommy

Mary, Everyday Baby Steps

Steph, Adventures in Babywearing

Tesa, 2 Wired 2 Tired

Tracey, Shutter Sisters

The Motherhood Bloggers in Redbook

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We’ve been waiting for Redbook to hit the stands.  Working with Hearst and P&G, we arranged for Audrey McClelland and Vera Sweeney to be featured in the P&G advertising pages.  Don’t they look fabulous?! You must check out the March issue of Redbook, it is so cool and a full-on spread of glamour and awesomeness!!!!!

 

Here’s the second page with Vera:

 

 

The ads are for great, award-winning P&G products:

 

Time on Your Side

–  Aussie 3 Minute Miracle (Elle Essential)
–  Clairol Nice and Easy Root Touch Up (Good Housekeeping Seal)
–  Crest 3D White 2 Hour Express Whitestrips (Elle Essential)
–  Head & Shoulders Smooth & Silky 2 in 1(Good Housekeeping Seal)

 

Spring Awakening

–  Secret Clinical Strenght Waterproof (Real Beauty Gold Star Awards)
–  Venus Bikini Trimmer (Marie Claire 25 New Products That Will Change Your Life)
–  Olay Luscious Embrace Body Lotion (Good Housekeeping Seal)

 

A Fresh New Look

–  Clairol Natural Instincts (Good Houskeeping  Anti-Aging Awards)
–  Pantene Pro-V Fine Hair Solutions (Real Beauty Gold Star Awards)
–  Olay Regenerist Micro Sculpting Serum (Redbook MVP Awards)
–  CoverGirl Nature Luxe Gloss Balm (Oprah Spring Makeup O-wards)

 

Congratulations, Vera and Audrey and thank you, Hearst and P&G!  We love working with you!

Pinterest 101: A Crowd-Sourced User Manual

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An expert panel of top bloggers and social media influencers gathered in The Motherhood to discuss Pinterest – and the result was nothing short of the best how-to on Pinterest we’ve ever seen.

 

Read on to learn more from those in the know about how to get started on Pinterest, using the platform well, and how it can impact your life, blog or brand.

 

 

1. Pinterest Basics

 

Who’s on Pinterest and why?

 

The panel agreed – Pinterest users are more like Facebook users and are not necessarily “social media” types. And they are primarily female.

 

Rachel of A Southern Fairytale said, “TONS of the teachers at our elementary school are completely NOT into social media, and yet they all use Pinterest. Same with Bible study groups. They don’t get social media, don’t read blogs … but they understand and LOVE Pinterest. For party planning, saving and filing recipes, craft ideas, ideas to use in their classrooms, etc…”

 

 

 

“I find Pinterest really helps me organize and save my ideas for my business, my blog and my personal life. Before I would have this endless list of bookmarks and I wasn’t always sure what was what,” said Jill Simpson.

 

Pinterest is not necessarily about the number of followers you have, either (yet). “You know… I have noticed something interesting. Pinterest is a real leveler. When you look at most popular pins, it is OFTEN someone with very few followers who first pinned it. You don’t need thousands of followers on Pinterest to have a huge impact, unlike pretty much every other social network,” observed Kelby of Type A Parent.

 

 

Diving in

 

Everyone uses Pinterest for different reasons, but Tracy named a common one: “I love to pin for inspiration or to bookmark something I want to go back to.”

 

Jen of The Big Binder tells people to “use FB to follow everyone they know, then see what kinds of things are interesting to them … eventually you’ll create your own boards and even start pinning things on your own.”

 

“I recommend installing the bookmarklet immediately for your browser, so that anywhere on the internet you can pin straight to your boards with ease,” said Lindsay of Rock & Roll Mama. “I found this to populate them FAST.”

 

 

Related resources:

 

What’s This Pinterest Website? from Wall Street Journal

Pinterest and How To Use It from A Mom’s Take

Cool Mom Picks guide to getting started on Pinterest

Mashable’s Pinterest beginner’s guide
Who is on Pinterest? conversation thread
Tech Crunch, Where the Ladies At? Pinterest

NPR, Pinterest is a Woman’s World
Is Pinterest a “girl thing”? conversation thread
Pinterest is not about number of followers (yet) conversation thread
What is your favorite thing to “Pin”? conversation thread
The Secret to Pinterest’s Success: We’re Sick Of Each Other on Huffington Post

 

 

2. Using Pinterest – The Next Steps

 

Organizing Your Pinterest Boards

 

“Keep it simple in the beginning until you get more comfortable and understand the platform,” said Josh Gingold, managing editor of CBS Interactive. “Also, know what you intend to do with it so everything you do early will help make it more useful later.”

 

As a start, you can take a page out of Ciaran of Momfluential‘s book with “a few boards that I consider big catch alls and then I filter down to more specific stuff.”

 

Pinterest is a visual place with obvious applications for design and style, but as Amie of Mamma Loves pointed out, “If you think of Pinterest as a tagging system and less a vision board, I think the applications grow exponentially.”

 

Pinterest as a Website Traffic Driver

 

“I have seen a big increase in followers [since starting to use Pinterest],” said Dagmar of Dagmar’s Momsense. “Maybe because I’m doing a lot of decorating/craft posts right now.”

 

Added Kimberly of Foodie City Mom, “It has helped me to see which posts on my blog are the most popular. Without fail, the images that have been pinned correlate to most popular posts according to Google Analytics. It also sends traffic.”

 

Cross-Promoting Blogs and Pinterest

 

When it comes to linking from Pinterest to your own blog, “be sure it looks good and is interesting (and you do WAY more pinning of other content),” said Kelby of Type A Parent. “You also want to be sure your [blog] content is PINNABLE … good images, easy to pin.”

 

To tease future posts and pique interest, Robin “recently started a ‘to be continued…’ board for future story ideas.”

 

As Rachel of A Southern Fairytale noted, “Do I think about Pinterest and StumbleUpon before I put up my images? Sure … am I writing things TO get them on Pinterest? Heck no.”

 

“But I can imagine that a lot of people are – much like people blog for SEO, etc,” said Aimee of Greeblemonkey. “But as they say – the creme rises to the top?”

 

 

“I crack up at the post where it says something about thanks to Pinterest for making me feel creative when I really have been sitting at my computer screen for 2 hours – BUT IT IS TRUE!” said Aimee.

 

Instagram and Pinterest – Made for Each Other?

 

“Instagram and Pinterest seem like a match made in heaven. Images are essential for Pinterest,” said Josh of CBS Interactive.

 

Others disagreed.  “Pinterest feels to me less like a place to share personal pictures.  I know you CAN, but I really don’t too often,” said Kelby of Type A Parent.

 

“But what about images of stuff – food you’ve tried and want to recreate, a bag at Anthropologie you love, a new nailpolish color or room vignette?” asked Ciaran of Momfluential. “A lot of my Instagram stream is not so personal.”

 

Pinterest Etiquette

 

Self-Promotion Not Welcome

 

Rachel of A Southern Fairytale said, “I have once or twice pinned something of my own, but I really think it should be more of a pinning others to show and share the love and respect for what they’ve created.”

 

Added Kimberly of Foodie City Mom, “I think that as long as people are pinning things of others that they genuinely think are great, it’s fine to include some personal pins from time to time.”

 

And Josh of CBS Interactive pointed out, “I don’t see how you can avoid self-promotion completely but agree that too much will turn people off. Maybe that’s the point though… let the market decide… if people don’t like what you’re doing then they’ll simply ignore you.”

 

Related Resources:

 

Second Act – Six Creative Ways to Use Pinterest

 

The Motherhood Conversation Threads:

 

How to make pins show up on main page of category?

Should you double pin (put something on more than one board) or not?

How to add a Pinterest “Pin It” button to your blog posts

How to make multiple contributors to a board work

Do you have a method for using Pinterest – time of day you visit, who you follow?

Try an “About Me” board to tell more about yourself

What is etiquette on pinning for a client?

Self promotion

Pinterest App tips

What is the difference between following a board and following a user?

conversation thread 1 and conversation thread 2

Driving traffic? First, second and third thread

Favorite topic to pin?

Shared boards – marketing potential

Shared boards – which ones?

Are bloggers starting to blog just for Pinterest traffic?

 

 

3. Pinterest: Issues and Concerns

 

Copyright Issues

 

In many cases, re-pinned images are not attributed or linked to the original source on Pinterest, and people don’t get the credit they deserve for their work.  How can you avoid contributing to this issue?

 

“The main thing is to be sure you pin from the original source and keep the link intact,” said Kelby of Type A Parent. “And avoid pinning from places that are never original sources like Google image search.”

 

For those uploading original work to their Pinterest boards, “I would watermark my images with a copyright and URL if you’re concerned. Only way to protect yourself,” recommended Amie of Mamma Loves.

 

Related Resources:

 

Information for Bloggers and People Who Use Pinterest by Living Locurto

Is Pinterest A Haven for Copyright Violations? on Hubpages

Copyright issues conversation threads on The Motherhood:  One, two, three, four


 

4. Brands on Pinterest

 

What Not To Do

 

Pinterest is becoming a big deal in social media for businesses – but there is a right and a wrong way for businesses to get on the Pinterest bandwagon.

 

“I am seeing businesses creating only boards of their items. I won’t follow these pinners because I don’t want to be advertised to,” said Amie of Mamma Loves.

 

On the flip side, Aimee of Greeblemonkey noted, “I still maintain it is a haven for anything artistic and any brand that sells creative things are *bleeps* for not at least looking at Pinterest.”

 

She also recommended that brands use shared boards, “where they are sharing interesting things in their field, and getting bloggers to the the same – adding to the community – rather than blatant self promotion.”

 

Doing It Right


“Look first before jumping in. See whom other people are praising in your “space” and learn from what they are doing well,” said Kimberly of Foodie City Mom.

 

Amie of Mamma Loves added, “Brands should work to develop content that is ‘Pin-worthy.’ It will get on Pinterest if it interesting, creative, beautiful, informative.”

 

“I would add ‘Tell your brand story visually,'” said Lindsay of Rock & Roll Mama. “Are you quirky? Colorful? Global? Funny? Symmetrical? Show me, don’t tell me.”

 

“Look at this board created for Lily Pulitzer!  I’d follow this .. it’s eye candy so I’m in,” said Cairan Blumenfeld, mominfluential.

 

Cairan added, “I like Hayden Harnett’s “Stuff We Love” board.  They have used boards like catalogs as well, which is interesting but I’m not as in love.”

“Scholastic has a board of vintage Scholastic books, flyers, etc. that is super cute,” said Kelby.  “I also love that Michael’s pins projects from all over (I thought for sure they would only have their own instructions from their own site, but not at all).”

 

I like that Chobani repins bloggers who make dishes with their products.  It seems kind of self-serving but at the same time, they are also promoting the bloggers too, said Jennifer Rees.

 

Other brands using Pinterest creatively: Oopsy Daisy Art; ModCloth; Design Milk; Out To Eat With Kids; Lands End Pin It to Win It campaign (in December) and Real Simple.

 

 

Related Resources:

 

 

Related conversation threads on The Motherhood:

 

Advice for brands who want to use Pinterest

Should cultural institutions and non-profits use Pinterest?

Is Pinterest something users want to use for current events, historic moments like the Olympics?

Brands doing cool things


 

5. The Future of Pinterest

 

In terms of new functionality, “Private boards are my #1 want. Would love to do vision boards, but don’t necessarily want to share them with everyone,” Jacky pointed out.

 

Pinterest creator Ben Silberman recently announced that the company is considering offering private boards. He also noted that an application programming interface for the site is on its way – allowing the creation of offshoot apps and services.

 

What will that mean for Pinterest?  Ciaran of Momfluential speculated, “It will definitely be helpful for the ability to track a hashtag, for example. It will provide groups and services with the ability to sort and share info in new ways. I also see offshoot companies forming that can pull specific content.”

 

“I could imagine feeding them into a Facebook app,” added Lindsay Lebresco. “I would imagine an API would help with getting good analytics (if you’re using it for work) as well. PRINTING stuff. And even doing collaboration more easily perhaps. Yes – limitless!”

 

Related resources:

 

What’s next for an industry like scrapbooking with Pinterest?

Pinterest API will be offered to outside developers soon – what could this mean?

Private boards

Trends and Predictions

 

Thank you to the fantastic Talk hosts for leading the conversation! You can visit the full transcript of our Live Talk on Pinterest here.

 

Amie Adams, Mamma Loves and on Pinterest

Dagmar Bleasdale, Dagmar’s Momsense and on Pinterest

Ciaran Blumenfeld, Momfluential and on Pinterest

Kelby Carr, Type A Parent and on Pinterest

Kimberly Coleman, Foodie City Mom and on Pinterest

Aimee Giese, Greeblemonkey and on Pinterest
Josh Gingold, Managing Editor, CBS Interactive

Lindsay Maines, Rock & Roll Mama and on Pinterest
Rachel Matthews, A Southern Fairytale and on Pinterest

 

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