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Monday Morning Cool Tool: WordArt

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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 WordArt –  a tool for creating eye-catching graphics out of word clouds or tag clouds.

Word clouds are a visual representation of text data, where the size of each word in the cloud is proportional to its frequency in the original text.

How to use it: 

  1. Visit  https://wordart.com and click “Create”
  2. Click “Input words” and either copy and paste text from, add your own, or enter a URL to generate a word cloud.
  3. Now for my favorite bit. Choose from dozens of shapes, fonts, layout; then hit “Visualize” to see your word cloud.

Here’s a quick visual I created using social media marketing-related words.

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Visit tagul.com  and get creating your own visuals. 

Posted in Cool Tool, Infographics, Visual Marketing

Monday Morning Cool Tool: Visme

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This week’s cool tool recommendation is Visme – a browser-based design tool that allows you to create interactive presentations, infographics, banner ads, animations, and more.

Want to create a quick presentation? Visme makes it easy. Log in and click Presentations.  Choose the template that you like and start creating your presentation right away.

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Insert text using Visme’s shapes and icons, images as well as widgets to visualize your data into graphs and tables. You can even add video or record audio.

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Similarly, you can use Visme to create infographics, reports, social graphics, and even e-books. You can search through hundreds of custom templates and fully customize each of them to fit your specific needs.

Useful Links

Presentations:
https://www.visme.co/presentation-software/

Infographics
https://www.visme.co/make-infographics/

Charts and Graphs
https://www.visme.co/graph-maker/

Flyers for Print
www.visme.co/flyer-maker

Pricing

Visme offers three types of accounts, one of which is free. You don’t get everything with a free account, but you get more than enough to start creating content. A Basic account is also a great way to test drive the solution before you buy.

Go to http://www.visme.co to get creating. 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Pexels

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This week’s cool tool recommendation is stock image site Pexels.

Pexels provides over 3,800 high-resolution photos, collated from other free image sites — making it one of the largest free image directories. Pexels has also added a large library of stock videos to its site also under the CC0 license. Use the site’s list of popular searches to find the most in-demand stock video.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Fotor

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This week I’m recommending Fotor, a free image editing tool and design maker for PC and mobile.

Easy-to-use interfaces and tutorials make it a breeze to create beautiful images without needing to be a professional designer. You can choose from hundreds of templates and text-image combinations. Creating beautiful designs is as simple as modifying the templates.

You can use it to create a variety of images, including photo collages for social media, making as many edits as you need from an extensive menu of edits. Fotor even provides an area where you can experiment to the side of your canvas. It includes ready-to-go graphics, icons, and studio-quality video templates.   One of my favorite Fotor features is the  LinkedIn banner design and the logo maker. 

A paid version is available that contains more features and is ad-free. 

Visit www.Fotor.com and try it for yourself.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Infogram

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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 I’m recommending Infogram, a free infographic and data visualization tool.

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Infogram’s Basic (free) plan is intended only for non-commercial use, such as personal projects, blogs and presentations, within the limits of fair use. Its Business plan allows you to remove Infogram’s branding and add your own logo (it offers a reduced price for nonprofit and educational organizations.) The Basic plan includes 37 chart templates and allows users to generate up to 10 three-page projects based on their data.

Related

How To Create A Plain Language Summary To Match Patient Preferences

How To Create A Healthcare Infographic

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Responsinator  

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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 recommended tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is Responsinator.

Responsinator lets you see how your website looks on the most popular devices.

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Why Mobile Responsive Websites Are A Must

Mobile first-indexing is now fully underway and there’s no excuse for having a website that is not optimized for use across all platforms in 2022.  Most people aren’t looking at your website on a desktop or laptop anymore. They are looking at it on a phone or tablet.

Recent studies show 52% of smartphone users gather health-related information on their phones, ranging from information around a specific medical procedure to diet and nutrition best practices. 

Having a mobile-responsive site (ie one that automatically changes its layout and placements of certain menus and buttons automatically) is important because firstly, over half of patients search online for health information on their smartphone, and secondly, Google now gives ranking priority to those sites that are mobile friendly.  In fact, Google has stated that it will penalize websites that aren’t mobile-responsive, so if your site isn’t optimized for mobile devices, you’ll likely lose out significantly in the organic search rankings.

Posted in Cool Tool, Infographics, Visual Marketing

Monday Morning Cool Tool: TouchRetouch

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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 photo editing app TouchRetouch.

The app is designed to deal with unwanted content in photos, without having to resort to Photoshop.  It allows you to remove small items from your photos by drawing over them with your finger.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Anchor

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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 favorite tools with you at the start of each week. This week I’m recommending a super recording app called Anchor.

Anchor is an audio recording app for micro-podcasting, audio broadcasting, Q&As, and more. Features like sound clips and transcriptions make it simple to create audio for social media. Billed as “the easiest way to make a podcast, ever,” it lets you record a high-quality podcast, and distribute it everywhere (including Apple Podcasts) — all in one place. No fancy equipment or podcasting experience necessary, and it’s 100% free!

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Piktochart

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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 infographic maker Piktochart . 

Infographics are great for getting your content shared but many people are put off by the thought that you have to hire a graphic designer to create them. The good news is you don’t have to be a designer nor spend a lot of money to create them. Use a tool such as Piktochart to create engaging infographics. Choose a template and then customize it with text, fonts, and colors.

Try it for yourself at https://piktochart.com

You might also like to read: How To Create A Healthcare Infographic

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: AutoDraw

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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 AutoDraw  – an online drawing tool by Google.

AutoDraw pairs the magic of machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help everyone create anything visual, fast.  Watch this short video to learn more about how you can use this cool tool.