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Readers of PR Daily are no strangers to infographics. In fact, pretty much everyone who uses the Internet is familiar with them. They’re a relatively new, easy and often interesting way to present content.

And so it makes that someone has created an infographic about … infographics.

It’s from Brent Csutoras, a social media marketing consultant and entrepreneur, and although the text is a bit small, it offers insights on a variety of areas related to the trend.

For instance, the font of nearly all infographics is some form of Serif.

At least it’s not Comic Sans.

Art, maps,imagery and graphs add context and a visual component to numbers, locations, and information.

Social networks have shown exceptional growth over the past several years, attracting more than 200 million U.S. visitors in April 2011. Monthly visitors to the category have grown 61 percent since April 2008.

In their 1991 Pulitzer-winning book The Ants, E.O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler described an ant colony as a super-organism – a vast social network. The ants in the colony communicate with each other by following chemical trails left by other ants. As we browse the web today, we are provided with social proof of quality by sites that let us know what our trusted friends have liked or shared recently.

America is social As business owners and practitioners, it is important to know where to get the most bang for your marketing buck.

The social media world moves fast.With new tools and trends emerging constantly, it can be difficult to focus on just one and master it for maximum...