Mashable has some great infographics that are really beautiful, informative, interesting, and useful. Social media metrics are displayed in an easy to understand and playful way. Graphics like these are excellent tools for organizations to use when communicating both growth, gains, or movement to both internal and external publics. The graphics provide the information in both text and visual representation so more people will understand it in general.
There are some great templates and tools in Microsoft Office to create charts and some basic dashboards but these are custom works of art tailor made for the story they're telling. But it's still easy to borrow this idea and create something along these lines for your organization's story - think of how amazing it will look online or printed in an annual report. I've fount that this type of thing is often LOVED by executives - they think it's young and hip and professional-cool.
The real difficulty in creating one of these beauties is the information, facts, figures, and statistics that determine everything about how the final art will look. Getting that information may meen bugging someone to create a report with statistics, then drafting something and taking that back to the numbers person to make sure it jives, working out any discrepancies, re-do, etc. ..... done and it's amazing and DURABLE -- once you've done this kind of thing once it's much easier the next time around.
Has anyone done anything they'd like to share?
There are some great templates and tools in Microsoft Office to create charts and some basic dashboards but these are custom works of art tailor made for the story they're telling. But it's still easy to borrow this idea and create something along these lines for your organization's story - think of how amazing it will look online or printed in an annual report. I've fount that this type of thing is often LOVED by executives - they think it's young and hip and professional-cool.
The real difficulty in creating one of these beauties is the information, facts, figures, and statistics that determine everything about how the final art will look. Getting that information may meen bugging someone to create a report with statistics, then drafting something and taking that back to the numbers person to make sure it jives, working out any discrepancies, re-do, etc. ..... done and it's amazing and DURABLE -- once you've done this kind of thing once it's much easier the next time around.
Has anyone done anything they'd like to share?
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