Infographics are increasingly becoming one of the best ways of sharing a story, study or chunk of information in a visually attractive way. Sites like Mashable often feature and create infographics based on the latest tech stories, and links to infographics tend to spread around Twitter like wildfire.
Inographics are also a great promotional tool. Create one in your area of expertise, add your business logo and link to the bottom, and you can expect to see plenty more traffic coming your way as a result. Particularly if it gets picked up by one of the big sites.
But until recently, creating an infographic involved plenty of graphic design knowledge. However, a new tool - visual.ly, lets you create an infographic using your Twitter statistics. You can set it to create a solographic, or pitch you against another Twitter user.
Here’s my infographic:
There are plans in the works for more tools to be available to users to build their own infographics in an easy way, so it’s well worth signing up for news if you’re interested in pursuing this. As a promotional tool for your business, it’s definitely a worthwhile option, and tools like this make it an affordable one too.
