{"id":11397,"date":"2012-05-22T10:25:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T10:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=11397"},"modified":"2012-05-22T10:25:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T10:25:53","slug":"even-non-geeks-can-create-infographics-heres-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/content-creation\/even-non-geeks-can-create-infographics-heres-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Even non-geeks can create infographics&#8212;here&#8217;s mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11400\" title=\"3 questions bloggers and journalists love\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/05\/3-questions-bloggers-and-journalists-love1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/05\/3-questions-bloggers-and-journalists-love1.png 600w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2012\/05\/3-questions-bloggers-and-journalists-love1-300x235.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I know why PR firms and graphics artists charge a fortune for those big, detailed infographics you see everywhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/mashable\/infographics\/\" target=\"_blank\">like these on Pinterest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re very difficult to plan, draw and execute.<\/p>\n<p>The one below took me about an hour and a half to create on Easel.ly, a free tool that&#8217;s still in beta. It&#8217;s a bit buggy but has responsive email support which really impresses me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be explaining how I did it and I&#8217;ll show you the guts of the site when I host the webinar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Easily Create Free and Inexpensive Infographics<\/a> at <strong>3 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, May 24<\/strong>. If the time is inconvenient, register anyway because I&#8217;ll record it and send the video and audio replay links and the PowerPoint slides to everyone who signs up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be covering things like bar charts, pie charts, doodles, Wordles, maps and flow charts. I&#8217;ll show you which free tools to use to illustrate quotes and turn them into colorful images to pin on Pinterest.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll give you lots of ideas on how you can use infographics to market whatever you&#8217;re selling, and things you should do BEFORE you start experimenting with these tools.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my first effort at doing something this detailed. <strong>I don&#8217;t have an artistic bone in my body.<\/strong>\u00a0But I wouldn&#8217;t hesitate to offer this to, say, a blogger, along with a guest post on the same topic. What do you think? Comments?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I know why PR firms and graphics artists charge a fortune for those big, detailed infographics you see everywhere, like these on Pinterest. They&#8217;re very difficult to plan, draw and execute. The one below took me about an hour and a half to create on Easel.ly, a free tool that&#8217;s still in beta. It&#8217;s\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/content-creation\/even-non-geeks-can-create-infographics-heres-mine\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[619],"class_list":{"0":"post-11397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-content-creation","7":"tag-photos-graphics","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}