So who made it Create Your Own Infographics week and didn’t tell me? Well, there might not be any reason why they’d think to tell me, but I would still be kind of interested if there WAS some group with the power to decree a Create Your Own Infographics week.
Anyway, a whole bunch of these have cropped up on my radar in the last couple of days.
- Tagline: Infographics Simplified
- From the website: “Content is still king. Venngage’s tools make it easy for anyone to create beautiful infographics and data visualizations for their blogs and websites. Watch your audience grow with compelling and beautiful content.”
Easel.ly (beta)
- Tagline: Create Free Infographics Online (note, is probably not the real tagline)
- From the website: “Infographics are 30 to 40 times more likely to be viewed and shared vs. text.”
- Tagline: It’s super-simple, just try it! (actually, it’s probably Create Interactive Infographics)
- From the website: “Infogr.am’s product is gunning to be a kind of Adobe Illustrator for online, allowing anyone to create cool info-graphics.” (TechCrunch)
(h/t to Information Aesthetics. These showed up many places, but all of them were highlighted there.)
So I haven’t really played with any of these yet? Looking at the main pages and descriptions – it seems clear that they are looking for a commercial writer/blogger/content producer market, not the educational market. Which doesn’t mean anything in particular, but it’s interesting that that is where the demand is perceived.
I suspect this means that we will soon get reminded of just how difficult it is to make good infographics; it would be nice if a proliferation of DIY infographics would spark a conversation about what makes a good one. Obviously, these conversations are happening, but mostly among those who make them for a living. If everyone starts making them, that conversation would hopefully get broader – like the conversations about what makes a good slidedeck or presentation.
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