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Rudai 8: Infographics


Here is my first attempt with Piktochart. I thought in advance it would have been a case of changing a bit of text on a template and in minutes an infographic would exist. It took a little more time and ended up going back to look at the help videos. Even using an existing template don't underestimate the time that is required to put together an infographic! However I do think infographic visuals are very effective in making statistics you want to highlight stand out and draw peoples attention to them. I am going develop more for work and to try starting from scratch.Once I have the templates I need then it will be so much easier to just alter the data and publish. These will be very effective especially for end of year reports to highlight what I would like management to see first, and highlighting things like survey results to staff and students.
One thing I will have to do is work out how to get better information and reports out of my Library Management system. I know what I want out of it but not how to get it all. A steep learning curve awaits me.

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  1. Unknown26 November 2017 at 09:40

    Well done! Are you on Twitter? Would it be OK to showcase this on Rudai 23 account? Keep going your Visual Communicator Badge is next and then onto Online Networker.

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    1. Stephen Leitch5 December 2017 at 12:39

      Hi Siobhan, yes by all means share this on twitter :0) I'm on twitter only as my work at the moment, though as thing about what is covered in the next section that may change :0)

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