Category: Infographics

Posted in Cool Tool, Infographics, Visual Marketing

Monday Morning Cool Tool: Magic Eraser

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I love learning about new tools to make social media marketing more creative and effective, so I’ve decided to share some of my favourite tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is image editing app Magic Eraser.

There’s no need to open Photoshop as this app lets you cut out and save transparent images for use in logos, keynote presentations, documents, image editors, etc.
Remove the background of any picture with just a few taps and save as PNG or JPG. Just touch where you want to remove, and the “Magic Wand” function removes the area of similar color automatically.

Magic Eraser is available for free for iOS.

 

Posted in Cool Tool, Infographics, Visual Marketing

Monday Morning Cool Tool: A Color Story

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Summer-Day-1-1200x800.jpgI love learning about new tools to make social media marketing more creative and effective, so I’ve decided to share some of my favourite tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is image editing app  A Color Story.

The app lets you choose from a large selection of filters to make your photos stand out. Instead of filtering your photos to look all the same, A Color Story filters aim to enhance the color you’ve chosen in your composition. Bright whites, rich color, and clean adjustments.

One very helpful feature of the app is that it lets you save your editing steps to reuse for future edits, which will save time when batch-editing photos.

A Color Story is available free for iOS and Android .

 

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8 Creative Ways to Use Instagram’s Multiple-Image Posting Feature In Your Healthcare Marketing

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Is Instagram part of your healthcare marketing strategy? Instagram – the image-sharing site owned by Facebook –  now reaches 800 million monthly active users and currently boasts 500 million daily active users.

Visual marketing was hotter than ever in 2017 and will only continue to grow in importance over the next few years. People connect more emotionally with images than text, and in an increasingly crowded digital landscape images can break through the online content clutter.

Visual content can be an incredibly powerful marketing tool – one that increases message association, brand awareness, and encourages engagement and shares.  Healthcare marketing has been slow to adopt Instagram, but if you are looking to increase digital engagement in 2018, it’s time to add the platform to your online marketing mix.

A new infographic by Salesforce shares some creative ideas to make the most of Instagram’s multiple-image posting feature.  Called a “carousel”, this feature lets you post up to 10 photos in a slideshow or an album and offers a host of possibilities to increase user engagement.

Here’s how it works:

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And now for some creative ways to use the feature:

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Click to view the full Salesforce infographic 

Posted in Cool Tool, Infographics, Visual Marketing

Monday Morning Cool Tool: Infogr.am

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I love learning about new tools to make social media marketing more creative and effective, so I’ve decided to share some of my favourite tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is Infogr.am – a free design tool which makes it super simple to put together an infographic.

How to use it:

1. Go to https://infogr.am and log in with your Google or Facebook account.

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2. Choose from one of the three available themes – Infographic, Chart/Graph, or Map  – or you can click on “Data import or source” to start with your numbers.

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3. Pick a theme for your project.

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4. To your right, you’ll see the settings bar that lets you set the width, theme, add a custom logo, and specify a share button. To your left, you’ll see several icons. Clicking on them lets you customize your infographic with a map, a chart, text boxes, pictures, data, and even videos.

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5. When your project is complete, give your infographic a title and description. Decide on your permission settings. Do you want to make this public? Or is it just for your own use (public is the default setting; you will have to upgrade your account to keep it private)?  Click “Share” to send out your infographic to your social networks, or to get an embed link to add it to your blog or website!

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Plotagraph 

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I love learning about new tools to make social media marketing more creative and effective, so I’ve decided to share some of my favourite tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is Plotagraph – a really cool app that animates images with magical effects.

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Although you can’t see it in this still image, in Plotograph the water is moving!

You can use Plotagraph to create a looping video, animated GIF, or animated PNG. Then upload your eye-catching image to various social media platforms.  Most of the time, you make looping videos or animated images from a video. However, Plotagraph begins with a still image and creates the movement with what appears to be CGI effects. You can upload an image to the app or website, or take a photo inside the app.

Plotagraph is available via the web for free and the iOS app costs $4.99.

 

Posted in #HCSM, Infographics

Internet Stats & Facts 2016 (Infographic)

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I was sent an interesting infographic this week from the folks at Hosting Facts, and the sheer scale of global internet penetration blew me away.

  • There are 3.26 billion internet users; that’s over 40% of the world population.
  • Facebook now has 1.55 billion active users.
  • 2.9 billion Google searches are made every day.
  • 2.7 million blog posts are published every day.

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When it comes to website and domain stats, there are currently 966 million websites in the world today.

  • Google is the #1 most popular website, followed by Facebook and YouTube.
  • The most popular CMS is WordPress, powering 25.4% of all websites in the world and responsible for over 76.5 million blogs created since 2004.
  • There are currently 123.78 million registered .com domain names, making the .com TLD the top domain name extension.

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There are more mobile internet users than desktop internet users; 52.7% of global internet users access the internet via mobile.

  • Search engines are the starting point for mobile research, with an estimated 48% of mobile internet users starting their search on search engines.
  • Google uses mobile compatibility as a factor when ranking websites.
  • 70% of mobile searches result in an online action within an hour of the search being conducted.
  • 50% of mobile users will abandon of web page if it takes more than 10 seconds to load, and 60% won’t return to the site.

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Click here to access the full report. 

Related: AdAge Social Media Facts 2016