While Pinterest is taking many newsrooms by storm, there may still be some editors who are hesitant or unsure about how to go about using the online scrapbooking site. Why not take a page — or in this case a board — from The Wall Street Journal?

via How The Wall Street Journal Uses Pinterest – 10,000 Words.

Love this idea: Teams use Pinterest to showcase content from fans, display merchandise, create boards of photos from the past and present, and reflect team-associated culture and lifestyle trends.

Pinsanity: How Sports Teams Are Winning on Pinterest.

Women’s health and fitness magazine Self is upping its investment in Facebook. The publication is launching a social game and diet program on the social network next week.

via Self Magazine to Launch Facebook Diet Program and Social Game.

You might even say marketing is what HuffPost does best: sampling the highlights of others’ work, writing a few original sentences to add context, slapping on a come-hither headline and providing a link to the original article for the convenience of those readers not sated by the summary.

via Is the Huffington Post the future of journalism? – The Globe and Mail.

With all due respect to my hard-working colleagues, we are not cool. Worse, we desperately wish we were.

via The newspaper biz used to be so cool – The Globe and Mail.