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Best. Infographic. Ever.

Update: we now offer social media infographics to the public.


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I’m really fond of infographics. They are a really great way to get a large amount of information in your head – and keep it there.

Ever since the 10 Outstanding Social Media Infographics post we ran a while back, lots of places showed us love. This was a telling sign that we were on to something, so we starting making some of our own infographics.

So what’s this best infographic ever, you’re wondering? Yours.

“But I don’t even have an infographic. I suck at photoshop,” you protest.

Now on to the good stuff. In celebration of you, the creative spirit, we are holding a social media infographic contest!

Here’s how to play:

1 – Leave a comment with your awesome ideas for an infographic (keep it clean, boys and girls). You’ve got until 10/15/10 to add your submission.

2 – We’ll select the 10 best ideas we’d like to see as an infographic.

3 – Everyone votes on the top 10 until 10/31/10. Then, we announce the winner.

4 – 11/8 we will unveil the best idea as a new shiny infographic for one lucky contestant!

Looking forward to seeing what creativity we can build together.

10 Comments

  1. Pamela Sisson

    Great idea!! 😉

  2. Ned Poulter

    I had an idea not too long ago to create an infographic on the patriotism/mention of the USA in lyrics in songs. After minoring in American Politics as part of my degree I realised how political American/American bands can be and how known for the patriotism (and also their protests/non-patriotism) a great infographic could be made surrounding the American flag. This would show each star representing a different song from a different artist, some positive (patriotic Amercian lyrics), some negative (protest against American actions lyrics). Examples include Bruce Springsteen – Born In The USA as a patriotic song and Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends as a protest (non-patriotic) song…

  3. Jim Stroud

    I would like to seen an infographic on how many people are starting their own businesses when they could not find a job. I also would like to know what industries are most represented.

  4. Jason Fonceca

    I love info-graphics too, and love this contest. Brilliant stuff guys, and I know you’ll have a huge, awesome response.

    I’d like to see an info-graphic representing the amount of thoughts the average internet surfer has in a day, the subject breakdown for their topics of thought (health, wealth, love, finance, education, etc.) and their emotional-charge (negative, depressed, worried or hopeful, joyful, positive, etc.)

    The last info-graphic I made was for Inception on FastCompany, it didn’t win the contest, but I’m fond of it 😀

    (I’ll share for any info-graphic lovers:)
    https://spiritsentient.com/do-you-really-understand-inception-like-really-really-understand-it

    Rock the contest!

  5. Brian Wallace

    @Pamela Sisson: thanks! 🙂

    @Ned Pouler: sounds like a great idea, thanks for that!

    @Jim Stroud: definitely appropriate and representative of our times.

    @Jason Fonceca: sweet idea and thanks for sharing your Inception submission from FC. Sorry you didn’t win but sometimes you gain more from putting together the infographic for yourself. I like your interpretation of Inception, by the way 🙂

  6. Keith

    It’d be cool to represent political races via search terms. For example, how many people are googling Jerry Brown and how many are googling Meg Whitman?

  7. GamingForever

    Sounds like a good idea.. are there any other prizes?

  8. cadeaux

    Thanks for sharing, great contest to stimulate imagination. I think Jason’s idea is pretty good even though it may be a challenge to implement 🙂

  9. Data are fun

    How could you leave out xkcd’s fabulous Online Communities Map?? I guess the 2007 version was a bit outdated for the first post, but he went ahead and made a brand new shiny version, just in time for your contest: (https://xkcd.com/802/) It’s pretty much the best thing ever.