Long Island Exchange Inc. Announces Scenes of Long Island Pinterest Milestone
Long Island, NY (PRWEB) August 06, 2013 -- Long Island Exchange, Inc. (http://www.longislandexchange.com), a privately owned media company providing Long Islanders with a wealth of information, news, local business data, and resources for planning activities in the area, announced today it has reached a first of Long Island, milestone, on the social photo sharing site Pinterest.
“Beginning last year, Long Island Exchange began sending photo journalists throughout the Long Island area to photograph Long Island, its cities, towns, hamlets and roads for addition to our local guide and Internet site, LIExchange.com. Today, we have reached the significant milestone of over 770+ scenes of Long Island located at http://pinterest.com/liexchange/long-island/,” said John Colascione, Founder and Managing Partner.
“Our web site, LongIslandExchange.com, reports information on the Long Island area and provides locals with news and information on business, entertainment and events to residents. Since its inception, our goal has been to create the one-stop-shop for Long Islanders for all information related to their Island. From news to businesses, entertainment, restaurants and events, locals and visitors alike can now experience a little bit better of Long Island, without leaving their home, with full color photos of all towns and areas,” Colascione said.
Pinterest is a pin board-style photo-sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, and hobbies – all of which can link back to the source of photos. In January 2012, comScore reported the Pinterest site had 11.7 million unique users, making it the fastest site in history to break through the 10 million unique visitor mark.
“Pinterest will help channel Internet traffic to our website from visitors who are seeking information or images of particular areas, but this benefit was an after-thought as well as an after benefit, as we were the first to begin to successfully categorize Long Island by it Town and Hamlets, as well our own created Maps, from a foundational desire to truly be, as our tag line signifies, The Guide to Everything that IS, Long Island,” Colascione said.
About Long Island Exchange Inc.
Launched in 2002, LongIslandExchange.com is a privately owned media company providing Long Islanders with a wealth of information, news, local business data, and resources for planning activities in the area. The site has won five awards from BOLI, Best on Long Island, in best of categories like "News, Media and Publications" as well as "Best Web Site of the Year".
For more information, please visit http://www.longislandexchange.com.
John Colascione, Long Island Exchange Inc., http://www.longislandexchange.com, +1 631-587-7050, [email protected]
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