Pinterest, continued

I wanted to follow up on my earlier entry by noting that just today, I heard of two more museums/institutions on Pinterest: the Archives of American Art and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Pinterest's search capabilities are pretty rudimentary (unless I'm missing something), but a search for "people" whose name includes the word "museum" produces these results. It's not clear whether these accounts are actually run by the museums in question, although some seem like they could be. The results also don't include museums like the IMA that I know are on there, so... discovery via Pinterest is still somewhat of an issue. It would be nice if people looking for boards run by museums could find them reliably (it would be nice to be able to find anything or anyone reliably via the search function, for that matter).

Again, I'm not sure whether it's confirmation bias or there really is a general increase in attention to Pinterest, but this seems to be the latest social site museums are beginning to cautiously dip their toes into. I think it's safe to say it's starting to be a "thing," but what that thing is, I don't think anyone quite knows yet.

I do like the playfulness of the Archives of American Art's boards, and I think that sort of approach is a step in the right direction.