Pssst � in case you didn�t already know, we�re on Facebook!

Cooperative Living has a presence on social media because we want to connect with you, our valued reader.

On the off chance that you�re not familiar with Facebook, it�s a popular, free-access social-networking website. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. The website boasts over 1 billion users.

Facebook is popular because it connects people and businesses around the globe. It�s a place where you can share what�s happening in your life with a single sentence, or interact with your favorite politician or publication with a few clicks of the mouse.

And that�s exactly why Cooperative Living magazine is on Facebook � because we want to connect with you, our reader. By �liking� us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cooperativeliving, you�ll get to view interesting links, find out about current and upcoming articles in the magazine, get a heads-up on contests and, most importantly, give us your ideas on how we can make Cooperative Living even more interesting and useful to readers like you. Through our Facebook page, we share everything from energy-efficiency tips to a behind-the-scenes look into how we prepare the magazine each month.

We will also feature links to events going on in your community, as well as additional information on topics we feature in the magazine.

Not only can we share with you through Facebook, but we like when you share with us, too. You can post your favorite cooperative-related photos or share your favorite energy-conservation tips on our wall. Or, like reader Virginia Frost of Danieltown, you can just stop in to say hello. She wrote, �So glad to see that Cooperative Living magazine is on Facebook! I have missed it for years.�

Cooperative Living magazine also has a presence on Instagram and Pinterest. Instagram is a wildly popular photo-sharing mobile app. On Instagram, words are minimal and photos are high-impact. It�s a social-media platform that has become known for its more than 80 million slice-of-life images posted per day; an evocative thread of images that tells a story about the individual or business that posts them.

Through our new presence on Instagram, Cooperative Living magazine hopes to connect with readers in a different way than we do through our Facebook presence. We hope to create a personal environment for our followers and offer through Instagram a different perspective on the magazine, its content, the member cooperatives it serves, its readers, and even the faces behind the magazine. We invite you to also stay connected with Cooperative Living by following our Instagram page at www.instagram.com/cooperativelivingmagazine.

Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo-sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, videos, news and more. Users can browse other pinboards for inspiration, �re-pin� images to their own pinboards, or �like� photos. Our Cooperative Living boards include the following: �energy smart,� �cooperatives,� �DIY,� �Featured,� �CL issues,� �food & recipes,� �electric industry,� �gardening,� �kids� and �travel.� If you are on Pinterest, please be sure and follow us at www.pinterest.com/coopliving!