@fredricgonzo, I have not heard of Quora.Pinterest is certainly getting interest, but do people really understand it?

@fredericgonzalo

I really like Quora, but I have to admit that it’s not a daily read.  I have so much that I read and track that sometimes the things I enjoy get the back seat. 

Pinterest on the other hand does’t really interest me.  I tend to clip informative content not images or items. I use evernote for information I want to save.

@juleswebb @kc_kreative Glad to see there’s still a few of us using it…

@annliu Maybe they should add a RSS Feed or daily digests? Is there a mobile app?

I use Quora fairly regularly. I find it entertaining, but is also helpful for finding ideas to blog about. Here’s how I use it:

1. Go to Quora.com.
2. Type for your topic into the search bar. Quora will populate the list with common topics.  
3. The results page will list popular questions and open (unanswered) questions. These unanswered questions are a golden opportunity to identify topics for you to blog about. It’s likely that others out there have the same question. 
4. Answer an unanswered question or Quora (optional).
5. Take your answer and transform that same content into a blog post. 

@andrew_k_kirk That’s a great one!

@juleswebb I love evernote for clipping info; however, that is not the point of Pinterest. It does show great promise for branding, interaction and going viral when used correctly.
@fredericgonzalo I am quora subscriber and simply view articles/posts of interest to gain other perspectives. Have not been active in participation. 
I do like Pinterest, it sucks you in and can be a time hog. I have been monitoring The Fancy for about a year as I am interested in its eCommerce angle. The Fancy is like Pinterest with the “buy” option on some items.

I’m slowly but surely building Pinterest as my portfolio. It’s taking some time though.I like Quora. I too like to search it for topics before I start a blog post.

@geoffrey-gordon Hi Geoffrey! At one time, Quora was poised to be the next BIG social media, and many people (including me) flocked to it thinking it would become something it is not. At the end of the day, the network is great as a resource, for finding answers to pretty much any question, based on peer comments and intelligence of the crowds.

Thus, I use it like I would use Wikipedia, that is: a tool for knowledge. I don’t go as often as I once did, perhaps once a month, if that. Still, it’s a great platform, and I hope you will enjoy it

Cheers,
FG

@andrew_k_kirk

Perhaps, Quora has a visual deficit and Pinterest has a highly targeted visual asset both could benefit from.

I recently started dumping my “bookmarks” in Pinterest and named the board My BookMark Buddy. I now have VISUAL reminders I can scan and scroll fast, fast, fast, many of which had been totally lost and forgotten under a deep maze of nested files. What doesn’t have a visual to pin… I just Jing something on the page and pin that.

Right now I’m just trying to get all those bookmarks out on the Board in visual form. I’ll worry about prettying it up later.

Then… I plan to go through them one by one, write a blog article or curate a post, add an image, post it on a website, then pin THAT on my BookMark Buddy board so there’s a link from Pinterest to that site for traffic purposes, then go back and delete my old plain or ugly bookmark pins.

As far as Quora is concerned, from the first day I layed eyes on Pinterest, I immediately thought of Quora… and how dressing up a Q with an image or graphic representation could easily pull “cerebral” traffic from Pinterest to Quora. I mean… P is full of quotes and sayings and questions and answers regarding everyone’s most minute specific interest. What better place for a persnickety pin board on obscure questions and subjects than Pinterest?

I think the FULL measure of Pinterest and the effect it’s going to have on everyone has yet to be realized… but it definitely will… and soon.

Being the little girly geek I am, however, I’d rather peruse Quorum… or actually… I’d rather peruse bookmarked Quora questions on Pinterest, then follow the link to what interests me on Quora.

To me… Pinterest is THE Future-Mega-Trend-Shock paradigm-shifting VISUAL SEARCH TOOL that the brainiacs promised me in the 1980′s but never quite delivered… except in the form of my very first 9-inch MacIntosh SE with a dot matrix printer, lol.

But now… I’m delightfully paradigm-shocked with Pinterest and can’t wait for the creative/intellectuals to take it to the next and next and next levels!

… she said calmly, jumping up and down…

Robin Carlisle