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What is Infographics? Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge.

These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. With an information graphic, computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians develop and communicate concepts using a single symbol to process information. Today information graphics surround us in the media, in published works both pedestrian and scientific, in road signs and manuals. They illustrate information that would be unwieldy in text form, and act as a visual shorthand for everyday concepts such as stop and go. In newspapers, infographics are commonly used to show the weather, as well as maps and site plans for newsworthy events, and graphs for statistical data. Some books are almost entirely made up of information graphics, such as David Macaulay's The Way Things Work. Sources: http://mashable.com/category/infographics/

Why Infographics is one of the best method for social media?

An infographic is a great way to go viral, earn links and social media shares as well as to give your content wings by re-packaging it. When done well, infographics work like magic for driving traffic and exposure. From presentation data, to visual resumes and just fun items to share through social networks, you can make intricate infographics in minutes. Sources: http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/blog/content/5-great-easy-to-use-tools-forinfographics

What is the best way to create infographics for social media?

Step 1: Breaking it up Infographics are valuable because they take high value information and deliver it in a way that allows users to focus on the primary take-aways without having to do something as boring as, say, read a blog. Realizing this, its important that you break up your subject matter in a manner that is easily displayed in a graphic. I wouldn't recommend having more than fifteen "components" to your infographic though there are many agood infographic with more than that. Here's a great example of a high value infographic that has twenty components: infographics Page 1

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Step 2: Storyboard Before you tackle the arduous task of drawing up your infographic just to play the "scrap it" game and start over from scratch trying sketching out what you think your infographic should look like. Make sure the similar information is grouped together, higher value information is given prominent placing and that you're able to "tell a story" through the use of your infographic. There's a point you're trying to make or information you're trying to convey - what's the best way to convey that information? Step 3: The Graphics Generate the "bite sized" pieces of the infographic first. The single components are more important that the graphic as a whole because each individual component is what truly delivers the core value - for this reason the single components should be generated first and then pieced together accordingly. "That which matters most should never be at the mercy of that which matters least." Make sure to use relevant graphics for each facet of information. Here are some questions to ask:

Is a pie chart more appropriate where you've inserted a bar chart? What is the most visually stimulating way to communicate each piece of information? What graphics will elicit the most emotion / interest? What type of graphics will my target audience relate with?

Step 4: Piece it together Now that you've prepared each component pull it together as closely to your initial storyboard as you're able to do. Chances are you'll need to make some modifications which is a good problem to have because it meant you got creative! That's fine - don't stick to the plan for the sake of the plan, make changes that are necessary to the improvement of your infographic as a whole. Make sure that when you piece your infographic together you focus on the potential narrative at hand. Not all infographics can tell a story but the ones that can are almost always the most effective. Step 5: Promote it! Infographics are made to go social - start by posting the graphic on your blog so your site has the earliest occurrence of the infographic. Then blast it out across your social media properties: facebook, twitter and pinterest! Pinterest specifically is a perfect place for infographic promotion and is sure to get your media re-pinned in the shortest amount of time. The best part infographics Page 3

about infographics is that you can choose to conjure them back up and re-promote them over time (assuming they're still relevant). Sources: http://socialmediatoday.com/kasimaslam/893051/how-make-infographic-five-steps Additional Tips: Detailed Tutorials and Useful Templates

5 Unbeatable Types of Infographic + Free Tools to Create Them: This one lists some useful templates to build upon, for example, a blank periodic table to fill in and Free Vector World Maps Collection. Design a magazine infographic (using Adobe Illustrator CS3 or later): A step-by-step guide into creating a very nice-looking infographic. And heres another one for Adobe Illustrator Heres the awesome collection of visual hooks and elements for your future infographics: learn to create beautiful columns, trendy lines, beautiful charts, etc Heres an awesome video tutorial on Visualizing relationships between various objects and elements. Here are plenty of awesome Photoshop templates and icons to use in your infographics (or to just get inspired)

Sources: http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/blog/content/5-great-easy-to-use-tools-for-infographics

Examples of great infographics ( usually fromhttp://pinterest.com/mashable/infographics/)

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What are Easy to Use Tools for Infographics? 1.) http://piktochart.com/ 2.) Visual.ly

Utilized frequently by high school students who want visuals for projects as well as by website owners who are looking for dynamic blog charts, this is a great infographic creator. You can make complex and attractive graphs, charts and visual graphics, then share them with others. You can also get ideas by looking through their large database of user created content. Their specialty is Twitter data charts that are made using pre-created layouts that use your information gathered through signing into your Twitter account and organized for you. But they

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have many other options.

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2. Creately

If you want a more basic but still attractive style of graph without registering for a site, Creately is probably more your style. They have mind maps, flowcharts, pie graphs, bar graphs and more. They also have a team collaboration feature, which makes it great for joint projects or business use. A number of major brands use them, such as Good Year and Lenovo.

Free Tools for Personal Branding Infographics 3. Vizify

Twitter is one of the most popular websites on the net. If you want to show your stats, especially for your blogs Twitter account or something similar, you can break it all down into a simple but interesting infographic through Vizify. It is completely free and, as they say, it only takes 10 seconds to make. 4. Visualize.me

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Still in beta version, this is a really fun tool that allows you to create a visual resume by signing into your LinkedIn profile. All relevant data there will be worked into a graphic format, which you can then customize to your specifications. They have several layouts you can use, and you will be sure to stick out to your potential employers. 5. Re.Vu

This is a little more complex than the one above, but the idea is the same. You sign into your LinkedIn profile and it creates a visual version of your resume. You can also create an infographic showing analytics for your website.

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Information graphics, visual representations of data known as infographics, keep the web going these days. Web users, with their diminishing attention spans, are inexorably drawn to these shiny, brightly coloured messages with small, relevant, clearly-displayed nuggets of information. Theyre straight to the point, usually factu ally interesting and often give you a wake-up call as to what those statistics really mean. Sources: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/awesome-free-tools-infographics/ 6.) Stat Planet Stat Planet allows you to create some amazing interactive visualisations, which you can then use as is or create a static image. It can be used within your browser or downloaded for free. Stat Planet gives you access to some great world data and lets you customise that in your visualisations. It also has some great map-based visualisations to try.

7.) Hohli Hohli is an intuitive, simple online chart maker. Its incredibly easy to pick your chart type, add some data, vary the sizes and colours and see the finished chart. The finished charts are also very well designed and look great! infographics Page 10

New York Times New York Times Visualization Lab lets you use statistics from recent NYTimes articles to create visualisations in various formats. You can also see other peoples visualisations and see how other people choose to display the same data.

8.) Many Eyes Many Eyes lets you upload your own data or use data already stored on the site. The visualisations themselves are well-designed and very professional-looking. This is definitely the easiest way to use your own data for online visualisations. infographics Page 11

9.) Google Public Data Google Public Data lets you easily take public data and transform it into an infographic of your choice. These beautiful, colourful graphics simplify and communicate the data perfectly.

10.) Wordle Wordle lets you create word visualisations using text you enter. There are plenty of interesting designs to choose from. Enter whole books, short passages or see what other people have used. In this example, we can see the US constitution visualised.

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Free Software For Creating Infographics 11.) Tableau Tableau is a free Windows-only software for creating visualisations. As you can see, these impressive graphs are colourful and quite unique.

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12.) Inkscape Inkscape is a free vector graphic software available for many platforms. This is the ideal free option for the creation of your overall infographic. Simple and intuitive, you should have no problems importing your visualisations and combining them with other visuals to create your masterpiece.

13.) Gapminder GapMinder is a free Adobe Air (cross-platform by nature) application to ensure you have current data on major world issues and can create visualisations for your purposes. Data is updated yearly and released with new versions of the application. The visuals are also quite impressive! Sources: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/awesome-free-tools-infographics/

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