A little rant..
I haven't done quite as many blog posts recently - partly because I've been a busy bee travelling this amazing world of ours for the last 8 months, but also in part because I am a tad frustrated with blogger...Let me explain.
One of the many content mediums I like to use when blogging are infographics. A good infographic really fits that old adage of 'a picture is worth a thousand words', and sometimes (often), less is more. They are a great way of removing the clutter often surrounding facts, they bring life and fun to said facts, and are useful referencing material to go back to again and again.
For the past 12 months of writing this blog, I have found interesting infographics to share, and used Pinterest to pin the infographic from the authors website, and then embed into my blog. After a few months of doing this - and with Pinterests frequent updates, I realised the embedded Pinterest image often broke in my blog, leaving nothing more than a broken image link; annoying. I like Pinterest, but this is a fail on their part regarding this. I tried simply embedding the image itself into Blogger but there is a bug in Blogger where images over a certain size are corrupted, again making them ineligibly small.
So, here we are now - Rant over and solution found.
Slideshare to the rescue:
I have always liked the presentation sharing site slideshare. Not only is it an amazing knowledge bank where insights and stats are 'ten to the dozen', but it also has a huge content distribution/sharing/networking potential.
In recent weeks slideshare now has the functionality for publishers to upload and distribute their infographics, and tools for consumers to share them. The simple embed tools make it easy once again for bloggers like me to share infographics in a professional way. Gold star slideshare.
So, making up for lost time, below are five recent infographics that I like brought to you courtesy of the new slideshare functionality.
Chao.
#1 - Content Marketing on slideshare
SlideShare Infographic: The Quiet Giant of Content Marketing from SlideShare Content Marketing
#2 - 10 Presentation facts you should know (Infographic)
#3 - What does it take to be CEO (Infographic)
#5 - One for fun: The price of being Batman then and now (Infographic)
Have you seen any interesting infographics recently? Let me know in the comments below.
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