Do You Know Infographic?

An infographic is an image that represents knowledge, information, or data. It is like an technical posters. Why is an infographic interesting and attracts people's attention? Well, an infographic has a good looking, and mostly the information it contains are easy to understand along with the pictures it provides, so that makes people wants to read an infographic more than a book.

Major concepts:

• Why is an infographic better than a book
• How to create an awesome infographic
• What is infographic

Research

• According to the research, publisher that use infographic are more success in the work in average of 12% than those who doesn't. 

Excellent Tips

• Choose a topic- Choose an interesting topic then think of a title that catches attention.
• Sources- Include a diversity of sources and statistics.
• Promoting- Promoting online (facebook, twitter, social media websites). And make it easy to share (best to use embed).
• Avoid- Avoid white backgrounds and don't include too much words in the infographic.
• Notify- Notify a network of websites about the infographic to promote and get more views.
• Search ranking- Pay attention to search ranking. There are about 34,000 searches conducts in google every seconds, and 75% of that people doesn't scroll past first page.

How To Measure Your Success?

• Determining the increase in inbound links using google webmaster tools.
• Accessing image file loads of the infographic in your server logs.
• Determine the amount of followers, fans, sharing on social media websites.

Potential Strength/ Advantages

• Easy to follow- The author gave clear steps to follow.
• Fits the present- The topic fits the present, because people nowadays use computers in their daily life and infographic may be helpful.
• Research- The research shows that it really works and the source is trustworthy.

Potential problems/ Limitations/ Disadvantages

• The readers who wants to follow the instruction should have basic skills of technology, because they need to make the infographic look nice and the usage of languages affect too.
• First link- The article claimed that according to the research, most people click on few first link they saw in google, that means if you are planning to make an infographic, you should make it perfect.
• Privacy- The infographic should be unique and you have to make sure that it doesn't look similar to others because when it comes to online, you might can't delete it, and if you copy other's idea, you'll be in trouble.

Questions

• How to know that the infographic is good enough?
• What do you think is better, books or infographics?

"What Is An Infographic? A Graphic to Define Infographics." Customer Magnetism. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. <http://www.customermagnetism.com/infographics/what-is-an-infographic/?asid=c228f21b>.