Some of my favorite blogs have been talking about copyright issues lately with Pinterest. In matter of fact, if you do a google search, there’s about three million different sources talking about the Pinterest Copyright issues.

If you follow my pinboard and have been reading my blog for quiet some time, you’ll know that I absolutely love Pinterest. There are pro’s and cons to Pinterest, but when it comes down to it, I’m going to keep on pinning and blogging about it my heart’s content. This is why I choose to do so.

Cons

Business Insider posted a beautiful, well-written article about a lawyers perspective on Pinterest Copyright and terms. One of the terms which was pointed out is that Pinterest makes the user solely reliable for what a user puts on the Pinterest website. If you ask me, it’s Pinterest’s awful way to play the “blame game.”

Pros

My most popular articles are from me talking about certain pins on pinterest. Like certain ways to do creative projects with toilet paper rolls. My articles sometimes give me 30-50 visitors a day by utelizing other pictures (and given a proper credit to my source of course). You should keep pinning if you are a blogger who has paid advertisements, sponsors, or other sources of revenue on your blog. Why? The more visitors you have, the likely they will stay and revist, and it increases your chances of a visitor clicking on a paid advertisement or sponsor. Can we say cha-ching!

If I had a certain image of my own that I posted on my blog, and someone pins it, then it’s instant visitors. And bloggers love visitors!

I have pinned other people’s pins, and not only does the original source of the work get traffic from pinterest, but they also get traffic from me. How? I blog about their pin, give the original source credit, and people click on the source because they like it and want more of it. See the outbound links below.

Block your images from being pinned

Pinterest has made it possible for images not to be pinned by using a snippet of code in your meta tags.

I think it’s a great idea for people/companies to use the snippet of code if they don’t want their images pinned. I am hoping that SEO plugins will somehow add this meta option in wordpress. When a post is created, and there is a certain image that a user doesn’t want to be pinned, they can click an option for the Meta Tag to say “No Pin.” So wherever the image/post shows up on the users website, it will have the meta tag not to be pinned.

I bet since Pinterest Copyright is so controversial lately that this function will soon take effect. I’ll be looking forward to it. I’m not a programmer, I’m a designer. If you’re a programmer and you are reading this, then please program away (and give credit where credit it is due for your inspriation to create the SEO Meta Tag No Pin option.)

My Personal, Humble Opinion

From the age of time Bloggers have been posting images and crediting other sources for the actual image. So what’s the big deal about doing it through Pinterest? You’re just as liable to get sued directly on your blog as you are through Pinterest.

My final conclusion, I’m going to keep blogging about the things I love and I’m going to share the love. I’m going to give proper credit where due, and give pinning etequit. If someone wants me to remove their image, or doesn’t want me to send traffic their way, then that’s okay. They can contact me and ask me to remove their image or to stop sending visitors to them.

Lets Discuss

As always, I’m open for discussion, insights, and opinions. I know other people have deleted all their pins because they are afraid of being sued, but what do you think? Will you keep on pinning?

PS. As I was writing this post, a company on Pinterest started following one of my boards titled “Mantel Decoration.” Who is the company? Mantel’s Direct. It’s a great way of promoting themselves, and I’m flattered that a company is following one of my inspiration boards.

Pst – Someone did create a “no-pin” wordpress plugin for wordpress. You can find it here.

Over the weekend I had installed WordPress multisite. As you could tell if you were visiting, the move did not go well. It took me all weekend to get everything restored, or almost all of it is restored.

WordPress Multisite is just another function of wordpress. It allows you to use one content management system to create multiple sites. You can use it on subdomains, pages, or domains. A sub domain is name.fallfordesign.com. A page is fallfordesign.com/page, and a domain is fallfordesign.com.

With multisite enabled, I’m able to create different websites by using only one content management system (wordpress). I’m thrilled about it, because this is what I needed to be able to design web sites for others. For example, if I’m designing a thesis theme for a client, I can create a page for my client at fallfordesign.com/clientspage. Only the client and I will have login rights to this page. Once I’m done creating the website, I plan on giving the client a login so they can review, edit and approve.

I’m also trying to find a client manager where I can keep the client up to date with tasks and questions. I currently have a few ideas in mind of how I’m going to build this. I’m currently on the hunt and trying different free open-source task management programs.

Oh, and during the week I started building a contract as well. There’s not a whole lot of sample contracts out there for freelance graphic designers. I researched what the current trends are for freelance designers and I created my own contract. When I’m done with it, I’ll give it to all of you so you can see it and use it, for free. Why? I like free things, and I bet you do too. :)

I think I sat here for five minutes trying to figure out how to write what I want to tell all of you. I don’t have any tragic news to share, it’s just that I’m overwhelmed and a bit foggy. I’m the type of gal who likes to stay busy and who is constantly doing something or another. Since I’m a SAHM with two little ones, you can imagine I am quiet busy. The hours tick on through, and the days turn into weeks and the weeks is now approaching 1 month since I’ve become a SAHM. I sit here and think to my self and say “Self, what have you accomplished? What needs to be accomplished?” Then I’m reminded that I haven’t accomplished a lot, but it’s enough to make my days easy breasy and very challenging!

My first month I don’t think I had any set goals. I wanted to get the girls on a better schedule, but I also wanted to sit down with them and educate them. I wanted to be the typical 1950′s mother who could do it all. Wouldn’t that be interesting. I told myself and my husband that life was going to be so much better and easy if I was going to be a SAHM. I had an idea of what was going to improve, and what was going to be great. Come to find out, it’s not all peas and carrots!

This is an idea of what I thought I could do, and am still trying;

Dinner made, more home cooked meals.
Switch the girls from disposable to cloth diapers
Get fit, lose weight
Get the girls on a schedule (play, nap, lunch, read/play) etc.
Cancel Dish TV
Coupon
Playdates for the girls
More time with the Lord</li

On top of what I’m trying to accomplish above on a daily task, I’ve added the following to my to-do list;

Organize Closet
Tag all old clothing & baby items for the Springfield JBF Sale
Start a Graphic Design Business
DIY Laundry room shelves
Paint Closet
Organize Linen Closet

Each time I have sat down to write my business plan, the boxes of baby clothes were calling my name and saying “Sale me! Get rid of me! Make money from me!”

For the past three weeks I’ve pinned, sorted and ironed while so I can get these clothes out of my office. It’s hard to start a business when you don’t have a work space that is functional and motivating.

I’m glad to say that today, I finally have all of my girls 0-6 month clothes pinned and hung. I even have a huge box of clothes that will be going to our garage sale pile with a big “free” sign in front. Remember this post about the gigantic boxes of baby clothes? Here’s a visual reminder.

I ended up with a total of four of those gigantic big boxes. Here they are. All hung and pinned.

It doesn’t seem like a lot of clothes that can take up four gigantic boxes. However I grouped the clothes together. Each hanger has at least two complete outfits (shirt/pants/shorts/sweater). And the onesies have anywhere from 3-5 on each hanger.

All I have left to do is to price and tag them. I am soo glad that I will be getting rid of them, and I’m ready to move to the next organizing project!

PS. I know the pink seat and all the brown in the first picture is ugly. This photo is in our office/spare bedroom that we will soon be doing a make-over! I’m so excited I have a lot of fabulous ideas. For now, that will be a secret soon to be revealed. :)

Pst – We made over $65.00 from selling the clothes at our local JBF sale in Springfield. Not bad!