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Create Interactive Infographics with Easel.ly and (Then) ThingLink

By Kevin Loker on October 8, 2012 3:10 PM

A reader (and fun Tweeter) had a smart idea following our post last week on using ThingLink creatively in journalism. I had to pass it along.

One of the ideas laid out in that post was how to quickly make infographics interactive, adding another meta-layer to the data you already made look pretty. Ivan Lajara, engagement editor for Digital First Media’s East Region, had an idea to make that even simpler:

.@kevinloker I was thinking that Thinglink + Easel.ly just might be the thing

— Ivan Lajara (@ivanlajara) October 1, 2012

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Tool of the Day

Infogr.am: Another Web-based Tool For Creating Beautiful Infographics

By Lauren Rabaino on May 18, 2012 1:47 PM

Last week we told you about easel.ly for creating beautiful infographics in your browser, but we had a few gripes — it didn’t let you manipulate data or change color schemes, two things that are vital to custom infographics. Infogr.am, also a tool in beta, lets you do both of those things and more — perfect for a journalist, blogger or social media editor on a deadline.

The tool is dead simple, and with preset fonts, colors and templates, it’s hard to make something that doesn’t look great. See my quick example below (which, by the way, doesn’t display real data on Twitter followers).