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Company Blog - Breaking Bin Laden: visualizing the power of a single tweet A full hour before the formal announcement of Bin-Laden’s death, Keith Urbahn posted his speculation on the emergency presidential address. Little did he know that this Tweet would trigger an avalanche of reactions, Retweets and conversations that would beat mainstream media as well as the White House announcement. Keith Urbahn wasn’t the first to speculate Bin Laden’s death, but he was the one who gained the most trust from the network. Why did this happen? Before May 1st, not even the smartest of machine learning algorithms could have predicted Keith Urbahn’s online relevancy score, or his potential to spark an incredibly viral information flow. While politicos “in the know” certainly knew him or of him, his previous interactions and size and nature of his social graph did little to reflect his potential to generate thousands of people’s willingness to trust within a matter of minutes.

10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics Advertisement Who can resist a colourful, thoughtful venn diagram anyway? In terms of blogging success, infographics are far more likely to be shared than your average blog post. This means more eyeballs on your important information, more people rallying for your cause, more backlinks and more visits to your blog.

Infographic: 7 out of 10 copywriters believe they’ll be screenwriters Former Leo Burnett copywriter George Ellis is apparently quite self aware—or, at least, acutely aware of his peers. This is proven in a clever infographic Ellis has produced for his website, The George Report. Our favorite line is the Did You Know: “7 of 10 copywriters believe they will be successful screenwriters someday. The other 3 are female.” Brilliant. The Social Media Effect (Infographic) At the moment, it is cool for companies to create their own infographic. Every day, there are many of those in my timeline and becomes harder to track what is good and what is for the bin. This visualization from InfographicWorld explains nice and easy the process of sharing that pushes people to a snowball effect and makes them spread your piece of content. ©2011 The Strategy Web™. All Rights Reserved. Connect:

Class Of 2011: If Social Media Were a High School This post was written by Jenny Urbano, our Social Media Manager. Here at Demandforce, we love seeing and celebrating your ideas! And more than that, we love to hear from YOU. We want to bridge the gap between us and you, so that’s why we’re offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a trip to San Francisco, sightsee in this amazing city, visit Demandforce headquarters and share your ideas with us! 6 winners, and a guest of their choice will be flown out to San Francisco, California on March 12-14th, 2014, where they will stay in Union Square, spend a day at Demandforce, have dinner with the team, and explore the lovely City by the Bay! For contest rules, and how to enter, please visit our post in the Generation Demandforce Community here.

Social Commerce @ SXSW – What Ogilvy Learned [infographics So the annual pilgrimage of all things and people of a digital persuasion to SXSW (South by Southwest Interactive) is over, but the event lives on in some lovely creative stimulus in the form pictorial social commerce insights, captured by event scribes Oglivy, and produced by the wondrous insight visualizers ImageThink. Click for high resolution image, print off, and discuss over lunch. 18 Interesting Twitter & Facebook Infographics Infographics have been around for a while but have recently become all the rage. They have allowed us to convert data into a visual structure making it easier for everyone to read and understand the information being conveyed. Infographics have radically impacted the way we display content to the point that it simplifies the entire process of data comprehension. Without these visually enticing structures we would have a harder time deciphering complex information.

2011 "Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape" [INFOGRAPHIC] Summary Examples of crowdsourcing initiatives are organized under Crowdsourcing.org's seven top-level industry categories: - Crowdfunding - Cloud Labor - Collective Creativity - Open Innovation - Collective Knowledge - Community Building - Civic Engagement We have also included a selection of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding tools that support collaboration, communication and sharing amongst distributed groups of people. All sites are listed in Crowdsourcing.org’s Directory of Sites (see sites main menu) where you are able to click-through and read detailed information on each site. Description [INFOGRAPHIC UPDATED 23 May 2011] We are pleased to publish our 2011 Crowdsourcing Industry Landscape. This years Infographic presents a comprehensive selection of crowdsourcing sites and projects.

65 Terrific Social Media Infographics 65 Terrific Social Media Infographics As you know, infographics are visual representations of information, data, or knowledge. They present complex concepts quickly and clearly, and communicate ideas in an easily understandable fashion. 19 of the Best Infographics from 2010 Research can sometimes be a bit of a chore, but when knowledge is wrapped up in charts, cartoons, or even some heart-holding robots, suddenly "information" isn't such a scary word. What do Facebook's 500 million users look like? Who's suing whom in the mobile world? How does FarmVille stack up against actual farms? Social Consumers and the Science of Sharing [INFOGRAPHIC] If you're buying a car, do you check Facebook? Or do you read up on Kelley Blue Book values and scour the company website for every spec, from horsepower to miles per gallon? What about music — do you check Top 40 radio charts or scope out what your Facebook friends are actually listening to on Spotify? Social media has infiltrated the purchasing funnel, helping consumers make informed decisions, from what to have for lunch to where to go on vacation. Depending on the decision, sometimes you turn to your social graph, and sometimes you turn to Google. So, as a brand marketer, you want to know what online channels you should be targeting in order to reach the perfect audience for your product.