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This conveys some important realities about the demographic necessities of agriculture, the economic impact and the cultural differences in agricultural production. As with all long infographics on this site, you can "scroll down" on the image by putting the cursor in the top right-hand corner of the image and sliding on the translucent bar. 

Tags: agriculture, infographic, unit 5 agriculture.

(Getting Smart - 25 Fév 2013)

The folks at Boundless who last brought us the EdTech Buzzwords Infographic are back with The History of Education. The graphic takes a look at how formal education began, changes along the way, current day and predictions for the next twenty years.

cute!~~

Content Marketing is a growing and powerful way that businesses of all sizes can use to reach their customers. As compared to traditional advertising, the focus is not to “interrupt” the user with a brand message. With content marketing the goal is to educate the potential customer, engage with them, build a relationship, and draw them closer to the brand.

To implement a Social Media strategy, the types of tactics being used by businesses include:

• Social Media (79%)
• Article Posting (78%)
• In-person Events (62%)
• eNewsletters (61%)
• Case Studies (55%)
• Blogs (51%)
• White Papers (43%)
• Webinars/Webcasts (42%)
• (see the rest above)

Content Marketing is THE focus for 2013. What do you think?

51% des responsables marketing en B2B ont prévu d'augmenter leurs investissements en 'content marketing'...est-ce l'effet du buzz et bouche-à-oreille, ou le constat de sa pertinence sur les indicateurs de performance (génération et qualité des leads, visibilité, engagement, ventes,...)? La question est ouverte...

Insects are the solution. Western people has to use to know that more than 1,000,000,000 people on the planet eat insects every day and they are the most effective food.

This article is from Mashable and infographic created by Nowsourcing. I chose this piece because it's a continuation of the last scoops I've posted recently about turn data into something businesses can understand and utilize.

Here are some highlights:. 

We are all experiencing too much information and unable to process it in a way that is useful for our business needs

**"The use of infographics helps to break down data visually, helping viewers make sense of complex information"  

**What's behind the science behind an infograpic's success? Allow an infographic to explain

**An infographic has the potential to reach up to 15 million people

The infographic in this piece shows you

  **How infographics impact social networks

**The difference between traditional posts vs. infographic posts and much more.......

Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Curation, Social Business and Beyond"

See article and infographic here: [http://on.mash.to/XKAKcQ]

An infographic on infographics and trends on visual communication.  Very relevant to learning quickly and memorably.  ~ Deb

Facebook, de plus en plus hégémonique...

Aside from the ubiquitous FB, its interesting to note how different countries adopt different social networking sites.

Sport and social media are obvious partners. Sport provides ‘live’ excitement and social media lets you share the moment with your friends.

It’s a social marriage made in sporting Heaven. 

A recent infographic from Eventility sets out exactly who the sporting winners and losers are in social media – and it’s not always who you might think.

Of course, the obvious winners are there. Christiano Ronaldo recently became the first sportsman to pass 50m Facebook fans and we all remember Usain Bolt’s victory in the Olympic 200m final which resulted in 80,000 tweets-per-minute.

But if you’re an American Football fan you might wonder why there are no NFL teams in the top 16 ‘most followed’ lists on Twitter or Facebook. Baseball fans will be similarly disappointed; they don’t feature anywhere.

That eight of the top ten teams on Facebook are football (soccer) teams, exposes the limited popularity of heavily US-dominated sports. 

When you see this list it’s pretty obvious why US companies are buying English football teams. The international factor also significantly affects personal popularity.  All of the most popular individual players are football, basketball or tennis stars.

Most of us in the social media industry know the importance of thinking before tweeting only too well, but apparently this knowledge is lost on sports players. Many have found themselves in trouble as a result of misjudged, foolish or offensive tweets:

• Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was fined $25,000 for criticising referees on Twitter.
• Chelsea’s Ashley Cole was fined £90,000 for calling the Football Association a “bunch of t***s”
• NFL star Rashard Mendenhall lost a sponsorship deal after tweeting a controversial theory about the 9/11 attacks.
• Triple Jumper Voula Papachristou was expelled from the Greek Olympic team for making a racist remark on Twitter.

Looking more locally, it’s encouraging to see that smaller sports teams and clubs are using social media to promote their activities. In fact, 76% of sports event organisers use social media to promote their events, with Facebook being by far the most popular social channel.

Of course, Eventility also highlights how sports groups are using social platforms to organise online - but it's interesting to note that only 50% of smaller sports clubs have adopted social media.

Given that a Nielson study for Sport England suggested that over a third of people who participate in sport would do more if they could use a web tool to search for sport locally, these clubs are clearly missing a trick.

Perhaps the key takeaway from this infographic is how effective events themselves - including sporting events - are at generating both buzz and followers, and how important it is to seize the moment.

Ask yourself how many of the 130,000 Twitter followers that Greg Rutherford attracted by actively Tweeting during the Olympics had heard of him before the games? And, were it not for Twitter, how many would know where his next competition is? No wonder the long-jumper makes it into the Social Media Winners category.

Expanding into new regions is an essential growth strategy for many B2B companies, but it’s not easy to get it right. There are many factors to consider, from finding the right skills to getting your marketing activities aligned to local cultures and customer needs.

As your company seeks to increase its revenue and expand its territory into new markets, a strategic plan is necessary if you want a positive return on your investment. Entering a foreign market is a risky endeavor as it requires extensive time and a lot of money. This visual guide above is a companion piece to the Definitive Guide to International Market Entry and Expansion and will help guide you through your priorities in the first 100 days of your international market expansion.

There’s no doubt that many businesses are in love with social media as means to promote their business. However despite the growth of social media, email remains a key and integral part of any marketing campaign.

The time at which you send an email can be critical to maximizing its open and click rates. So if you’re thinking about using email marketing or sending out e-newsletters or if you just want to improve the email open rates and click-through numbers of your current email newsletter or email marketing campaign then this infographic with data from GetResponse will certainly be of use.

Your smartphone isn't just for checking email and playing Temple Run. 

Busines owners can perform a variety of tasks on those smartphones when they're away from the office -- far away, in fact, like on a beach or ski lift. 

A recent infographic from Desk.com compiled 13 of these apps that help with financial management, communication, customer support and more. 

Take a look.

Cutting through the app clutter - this infographic lays out a few of the super-helpful apps out there for daily business activities.

Use of the term 'native advertising' has been picking up quite a bit of steam over the past several months ... but do you fully understand what it means? I'll be honest. I wasn't quite sure myself until about a month ago when HubSpot blogger Steve Hall approached me with an idea for a post about how inbound marketing supports native advertising. "Native what?" I asked? Turns out, I knew exactly what native advertising was -- I just didn't know that's what people were calling it.

Well then it occurred to me that there were probably quite a few other marketers out there who were in the same boat as me. So when I recently came across the following infographic from the folks at digital advertising firm Solve Media, I figured it was worth a share. A little hazy about what on earth native advertising is?

Read through the [above] infographic for a little enlightenment. I bet quite a few of you will end up thinking something along the lines of, "Ohhhh yeahhh ... "

Facebook vs. Google & The New SEO
Facebook becoming the #1 web destination is as much a VOTE for something (content and content curation) as against something (Google).

There will be a day when Google is as powerful in social networking as Facebook. People laugh at G+. I don't. I LOVE under valued tools because then I get to BUY LOW and SELL HIGH. 

Wrote this piece as Facebook's traffic line crossed Google's. You can see that infogrpahic here:

Facebook vs. Google Infographic
http://allfacebook.com/google-vs-facebook_b19556  

If it feels like that event is bigger than it seems I agree. Facebook becoming the web's top destination is a statement about how TRUE Daniel Pink's book A Whole New Mind is and will be. Couldn't resist sharing thoughts on such a momentous event.  

http://www.atlanticbt.com/blog/content-kings-and-right-brainers-facebook-vs-google/  

Marketing is changing before our eyes. As technology provides marketers with more reach, more control, and more information, marketing departments are becoming increasingly technical and data-driven. As a result, marketing operations are absorbing more responsibilities and control from their creative counterparts. However, the rise of the calculating marketing scientists should be viewed as an opportunity for more traditional marketing artists.

In a recent article, Stan Woods of Velocity Partners uses the scientist and artist monikers to distinguish between the creative-driven and data-driven marketers of the modern marketing department. Although a slight oversimplification, these distinctions hold a lot of truth about the current divide that exists within many marketing teams.

While these two differently-minded marketers take very different approaches to their duties, the marketing departments that will truly excel in this new age of marketing are those that recognize the value in both approaches. Companies need the data-driven approach of marketing scientists to track, measure, and optimize performance like never before, but they also need marketing artists to deliver innovative, creative campaigns that cut through the crowded marketplace.

We have put together the infographic above to help highlight the tremendous assets marketing artists and marketing scientists can bring to the table, and the advantage of finding a balance between the two.

CEOs on Social Media Statistics [Infographic] via @MYDstudio http://sco.lt/...

Understanding how to use the "creative commons" is about to be every Internet marketer's job. I'm lousy at attribution and that has to stop.

I don't like it when sites copy my work without attribution so only fair to hold myself to the same standard or stop being mad when someone copies my work wholesale (unlikely). Attribution is the right Thank You and kudos for someone's hard work. 

This infogrpahic helps understand the creative commons, attribution and the future of our visual heavy Internet marketing.  

A key area of knowledge for all school library staff.

It’s becoming harder and harder for web designers to create a universal design that looks good on any device. The different resolutions make the job tedious since you have to make everything as dynamic as possible. Designing something for just one device is a concept that is equivalent to failure. There are simply too many devices out there that people connect with to get on the Internet. If you want to cater to the majority of people browsing the web, you will have to think in several resolutions at once. Some designers have mastered this skill to the max. However, every time a new device comes out with a larger resolution, a touch up is necessary. Maybe that’s why an ultimate resolution guide had to be created, even if it is just for the Apple devices for the time being.

This ultimate resolution guide comes from Anibal Maiz Caceres and was actually a video presentation that was converted into an infographic. The ultimate resolution guide video is as inspiring as the infographic itself. They are both called Apple Devices Resolutions and should definitely be considered the ultimate resolution guide for Appledevices. No longer do you have to look around the web to compile all of Apple’s device resolutions in order to make your design as Apple friendly as possible. Just either print out this ultimate resolution guide or have the link to this article handy, and you will always have a way to look it up.

Ever since we started looking into picture quality and pixels on any mobile device, the resolutions have become a jungle to navigate. Which ones are the most used, and what is to come? These questions are unfortunately not touched on in this guide, but it still gives you the answers to what resolutions Apple has on all of their devices. Whether you are coding an app for these devices or trying to make a flexible web design for all of them, here is your one ultimate resolution guide to use when you are unsure about what resolution to use. It is guides like these that make the job for any coder or web designer a whole lot easier.

When was the last time you changed your business card design? Most of the tools we use to grow our businesses have gone high tech. Whether it’s a phone sitting on our desks with a long cord, a fax machine in the corner or even a huge bulky file cabinet stuffed with records, it’s all been upgraded to more effective and efficient high tech ways of doing things. The one thing that hasn’t really changed throughout the years is the business card. Sure, we’ve written about high tech business cards, but there always seems to be one catch with those business card designs, and that is that both people have to be users of the same app or same system in order for it to work.

There have been some really incredible business card designs that weren’t cards at all. We’ve seen them where both people touch smartphones and they both instantly follow each other on all their social networks and fancy stuff like that, but again, it requires that both people are already users of whatever app that requires. When you first meet someone, and you are trying to make a strong first impression, the last thing you want to say is something awkward like, “In order for me to give you my business card, I need you to install an app.” So, as a result, most of us still carry around traditional business cards. They are fast, easy, and they still get the job done.

If you are going to keep using a traditional business card, you might as well do whatever you can to make it stand out and be as appealing as possible. Richard wrote about how to do this in an article called The Ultimate Guide To Business Card Design. Today I’d like to share some more tips for you that incorporate psychology into yourbusiness card design.

This infographic called How To Design Your Business Card With Psychology In Mind by Uprinting touches on the psychology that goes into your business card design. In other words, how will something as simple as a font choice or spacing play into how you are perceived to your potential client? This will hopefully give you some new ideas, and it might even inspire you to update your own business card design.