A thousand words…

In the fast pace universe, we live in, every second of attention is important. You want to convey a message to an audience that is exposed to thousands of words every day. You must catch the attention of the reader and keep until your message is deliver.

Unfortunately, writing short text is a long process. Mark Twain once said: “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” But a blog is not a novel, it’s a bunch of ideas put together without formalism or predefined structure. Yet, it must be effective.

Here comes the infographic

One way to “jam pack” a blog without the use of lengthy sentences and explanation is using those nice infographics we see a lot. There are many tools to help creating very nice picture exposing visually concept. Most of these tools are online and available freely or at low cost. Some of the coolest I found are:

·         Visualization tools

o   http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/

o   http://chartgo.com/

o   http://www.onlinecharttool.com/

o   http://icograms.com/

o   http://www.improving-visualisation.org/

·         Word cloud tools

o   https://tagul.com/

o   http://www.wordle.net/

·         Infographics

o   https://www.easel.ly/

o   https://piktochart.com/

o   https://www.canva.com/

o   https://www.visme.co/

o   http://zanifesto.com/

o   https://venngage.com/

·         Royalty free pictures

o   http://epicantus.tumblr.com/

o   http://www.freeimages.com/

o   https://pixabay.com/

o   https://www.pexels.com/

o   https://www.pexels.com/

o   http://www.lifeofpix.com/