Infographics

All over the place lately, people are using infographics to display information about various topics. Marketers use them often to promote products.  I have seen many on Pinterest related to health and fitness. Infographics are a great way to showcase data in a concise and attractive manner. Several tools are available online to create your own infographic.

Venngage.com allows you to use various templates or start from scratch with a blank one.  One of the things I liked most about this site was that there were many different types of templates available.  It was not quite as "cookie-cutter" as some of the others.  With Infogr.am.com, limited designs were available for use.  However, it does have a great chart and graph feature that would be straightforward to use to create whichever type of graph or chart best fits your data.

Two others that I explored did not seem useful for my purposes.  Visual.ly seemed to be primarily for business.  Also, I couldn't figure out where on the site to go to actually create my own.  I searched for "What About Me?", which was suggest by Andrew Johnson in the article on 8 Best Infographic Tools.  However, I wasn't able to find the place to go to create your own.

The tool I ended up using to create my own infographic was piktochart.com.  I liked the free templates that were available.  The only negative I have for this one is that most of the content is only available for the "Pro" or paid users. I wish more of it was free content.  I made an infographic of tips for taking an online class.

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