Infographics

45 Simple Twitter Tips Everyone Should Know About. Are you a tweetin’ teacher? Do you rely on tweets for your extended PLN ? Whether you use the service or not, there’s a whole world of information being shared and you should start taking part. But if you’ve been too nervous or unsure about HOW to actually use Twitter as efficiently as possible… the wait is over. We’ve offered up plenty of tips and tricks for Twitter but never anything like this. Which College Has The Biggest Social Media Presence? Facebook & Twitter Social Media ROI [INFOGRAPHIC] How Instagram is Winning Gold at the 2012 Olympics [INFOGRAPHIC] Instagram has been the breakout social media star of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Users of the wildly popular mobile app have shared just over 100,000 photos from the Games over the past two weeks. Athletes post behind-the-curtain shots that give their followers previously unimaginable levels of Olympic access. Fans share photos from venues and landmarks as individual keepsakes, and to share memories with friends who aren't in London. Journalists are even getting into the act, uploading casual Instagram shots to go along with their more traditional news-gathering tasks. More than 650,000 photos have been posted with the #olympics hashtag, while more than 263,000 have been uploaded with the #london2012 hashtag.

Where are people sharing from? This all comes to us via the social media tracking tool VenueSeen, which has been keeping tabs on every public Instagram photo posted from Olympic sites this summer. How Churches Use Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC] Religion isn't a word often associated with technology — but it should be.

Communication between religious organizations and their followers has blossomed on social media. Many churches have turned to social networks to increase their outreach to spread their teachings. 10 Essential Fiscal Charts. World-food-crisis. 10 Essential Fiscal Charts. Is Social Media Marketing Effective? Applying Sentiment Analysis to the Bible « OpenBible.info Blog. This visualization explores the ups and downs of the Bible narrative, using sentiment analysis to quantify when positive and negative events are happening: Full size download (.png, 4000×4000 pixels). Things start off well with creation, turn negative with Job and the patriarchs, improve again with Moses, dip with the period of the judges, recover with David, and have a mixed record (especially negative when Samaria is around) during the monarchy.

The exilic period isn’t as negative as you might expect, nor the return period as positive. In the New Testament, things start off fine with Jesus, then quickly turn negative as opposition to his message grows. The story of the early church, especially in the epistles, is largely positive. Methodology Sentiment analysis involves algorithmically determining if a piece of text is positive (“I like cheese”) or negative (“I hate cheese”). How Recruiters Use Social Networks to Screen Candidates. Over the past few years, we've seen social media used in the job market in a number of ways — startups, small businesses and large corporations alike are diving into the socialverse to find top talent, and job seekers are likewise getting creative with social media.

Social media monitoring service Reppler recently surveyed more than 300 hiring professionals to determine when and how job recruiters are screening job candidates on different social networks. The study found that more than 90% of recruiters and hiring managers have visited a potential candidate's profile on a social network as part of the screening process. Teens and Sharing Video: Is it Safe? [INFOGRAPHIC] Teens love to share using online video more than you might think.

Nearly four in 10 teens who use the Internet take advantage of video chat using Skype and other apps. More than a quarter upload video to the web, and over 10% stream live video online for others to watch. Forty-two percent of female teens video chat, and it's also especially popular among people who use social networking sites. But a recent episode involving the flirting app Skout highlights the dangers of over-sharing online. 10 Steps To Designing An Amazing Infographic. Information can be useful—and even beautiful—but only when it’s presented well.

In an age of information overload, any guidance through the clutter comes as a welcome relief. That’s one reason for the recent popularity of information graphics. Infographics are visual designs that help to explain complicated data in a simple way (mental-health emergencies at Burning Man, anyone?). Who's Using Pinterest Anyway? [INFOGRAPHIC] Have you ever wanted to know exactly who is using Pinterest?

Here's a quick snapshot: Pinterest users are three times more likely than average Internet users to have visited Disney World in the past year. Their favorite magazine is Good Housekeeping. More than half of them have drank alcohol in the past month. They text and email from mobile phones and use mobile apps more often than average Internet users. A Deeply Flawed Infographic: Most "Innovative" Countries and Industries - ReadWriteCloud. Measuring an intangible like "most innovative" is tricky, at best.

At worst, it's a complete disaster, like measuring "most innovative" by using patents as a measure, like this infographic from Good and Column Five Media. It's based on Top 100 Global Innovators, which uses the Derwent World Patents Index and looks at patent-related criteria. This doesn't just use patent volume, but also looks at success in patents granted (as opposed to just patents applied for), global patents (applied for in more than one country) and the "influence" of a patent.

How the Arab World Uses Facebook and Twitter [INFOGRAPHICS] Social media has been often touted for the role it played in the popular uprisings that have spread across the Arab world since December 2010.

Despite the buzz, you may be surprised that only 0.26% of the Egyptian population, 0.1% of the Tunisian population and 0.04% of the Syrian population are active on Twitter. Of all the countries in North Africa and the Middle East, Twitter is most popular in Kuwait, where 8.6% of the population is active users, defined as those who tweet at least once per month. Facebook's more popular throughout the region.

In its most popular country, the U.A.E., some 36.18% of the population is on Facebook. Social Media Companies: A Cheat Sheet [INFOGRAPHIC] So you're new to this whole social media thing.

Maybe you're savvy enough to know your Facebook from your Twitter, your Pinterest from your Spotify. But what about Tagged? Xing? Futubra? Does Social Media Marketing Really Work? [INFOGRAPHIC] From Twitter to Facebook, to Google+, to YouTube, to Foursquare and more, social media use is the hottest thing in marketing.

But does it really work? Brands and businesses are certainly making a stronger push than ever on social media, which makes sense — that's where the people are. Figuring out just how much social media marketing returns on investments of time and money, however, is harder to do. Facebook marketing company Pagemodo recently pulled research from sources around the web to produce the infographic below, looking at just how much faith marketers have in social media. Internet of Yesterday & Today: 1996 vs. 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC] Where were you in 1996? If you were in cyberspace, surfing the World Wide Web, chances are you were waiting a long time for pages to load, laughing at the first Internet meme and suffering through some god-awful graphics.

Tube maps. Lessons in Conveying Complex Ideas with Simple Graphics from the World's Best Information Designers. By Maria Popova What Frank Zappa’s life has to do with e-waste, whale songs, and the black market for body parts. Much has been said about visual storytelling and how to tell stories of data in the information age, and there is no shortage of great books on data visualization. But count on Taschen to tackle a big conceptual challenge with a big, beautifully designed book: Information Graphics by art historian Sandra Rendgen explores the four key aspects of visualizing data — Location, Time, Category, and Hierarchy — through exemplary work from more than 200 projects, alongside essays by information architect and TED founder Richard Saul Wurman, Guardian Datablog editor Simon Rogers, Density Design’s Paolo Ciuccarelli, and Rendgen herself. 'Geek Love,' The New York Times, newspaper article, 2008.

Everything Explained Through Flowcharts. By Maria Popova. What's at Stake When Employers Ask for Social Media Passwords? [INFOGRAPHIC] How Social Media Is Taking Over the News Industry [INFOGRAPHIC] More than ever, people are using Twitter, Facebook and other social media sources to learn about what's happening in the world as traditional news outlets become increasingly less relevant to the digital generation. American forces' raid on Osama Bin Laden, Whitney Houston's death, the Hudson River plane landing — these are just a few of many major news stories ordinary citizens broke on Twitter first. Professional journalists, meanwhile, use Twitter all the time to break news quickly before writing up full articles.

Encyclopedia Britannica vs. Wikipedia [INFOGRAPHIC] The Encyclopedia Britannica officially announced it would scrap its print edition on Tuesday in the face of plummeting sales. Which Countries Top the List of 'Enemies of the Internet?' Global media watchdog organization Reporters Without Borders has released its annual list of "Enemies of the Internet," highlighting countries that restrict online freedom of expression.

The list's release coincides with World Day Against Cyber Censorship, March 12, a day the organization started in 2008 to rally the world behind an open Internet. The list includes 12 "Internet Enemies" and 14 "countries under surveillance. " The infographics behind the man: Nicholas Felton releases his new personal report. Forget Generation Y: 18- to 34-Year-Olds Are Now 'Generation C' A map visualization of scientific. The US Highway System As A Subway Map. The entire history of radio in one simple infographic. Who Is an Average Facebook User? The Age of the Viral Idea - Bill Davidow - Technology. How Higher Education Uses Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

The Diagram Queen. The Diagram Queen. How to Lead a Creative Life. Reality Television Venn Diagram. Viral Graphic: A World Without Wikipedia - Kara Swisher - Media. Infographic: What the Heck is an LLC? Occupy Scales of Wealth: Income Inequality Visualized as a Map of NYC. The global shoplifting economy, in an infographic. What's Up with China's One-Child Policy. More Infographics on Good. Self-Described Mac vs. PC People infographic. Profile of a Self-Described Mac Person vs. PC Person is a fun infographic looking at personality and preference differences. Facebook, Privacy and Health (Client Infographic) Who controls the data in Web 2.0? Visualize This: How to Tell Stories with Data.

Correlation or Causation? Infographic: What Tools Developers Actually Use.