Pinspired

Whitney and I have started the slow Summer months off with a bang at the library. We collaborated on a Pinterest display. Whitney had this great idea to use one of our very large display cases and create a gigantic Pinterest search. We worked on this steadily for about a week deciding on the look, types of  pinned items, who was pinning, printing, cropping, and stapling everything up. Here's the final result.

The banner heading has a Wordle with book titles and authors in the background.

Since this is a library display we needed to focus on library related things so we went with books, databases, social networking, and Web 2.0 tools. And we had to throw in a little something extra.

This should be familiar to any frequent Pinterest browser. This project was incredibly fun and inventive and we can actually keep it up for a long time and just swap out several of the pins with new books, Web 2.0 stuff, etc.

We were able to incorporate a lot of humor and whimsy with our comments and pinner personas (personas usually apply to fictional characters but we're using real celebrities in a fictional setting--blah, blah, blah). I hope people get close enough and take time to read the comments. Traffic is really slow in Summer so I'm not expecting a big reaction but hopefully when Fall quarter begins word will get around and people will stop by to gawk and giggle.