Is the Use of Visual Content Appealing in Social Media?

Filed under: Social Media — Tags: , , , — Poorani Prithiviraj @ Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Last week, I had come across this article in Search Engine Land about “Using Infographics in Social Media to Promote Content and Visualize Data” and it looked like a great topic to be discussing. Especially the word “Infographics” – does this method of communication have the potential to effectively illustrate a complex topic or opinion in the social media spectrum? Given that there is so much out there on Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon and other social media platforms, how can we start differentiating the cool stuff from the over-inflated text content? (more…)