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By Debra Askanase on her blog, communityorganizer2.0, September 6, 2011. In this post, the blogger writes about the benefits of infographics as a storytelling tool, what makes a good infographic and ways that nonprofits can use infographics. she links to other resources, including community-created infographics, sites for inspiration, and tools to DIY.

Very good infographic on the growth in digital education and need for students, teachers and professors at all levels to be prepared to play on this field. How does or should this trend affect ePD? How does or should this trend affect high school student learning and pedagogy in the classroom whether online, blended, or face to face?

By Angela Alcorn on the blog MakeUseOf, October 8 2010; shared by IdealWare in their Best of the Web email, May 8 2012. The post offers some tips, links to tutorials, and then 10 free tools, with brief annotation to describe what each is good at.

Identified by HubSpot--first one is on how outbound marketing has been eliminated by people's preferences for inbound marketing

This is the new home of Beth's Blog, "one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits."

A favorite of the KPI team.

Beth's impressions of the 2012 Philanthropy and Social Investment Industry Report and the conference she attended, December 2011. Love the example of the awesomely bad infographics--chuckle out loud funny.

From About, "Datavisualization.ch is the premier news and knowledge resource for data visualization and infographics." There are all kinds of interesting features on their site, including Showcases (exemplary work), Tools, and useful Datasets.

Very interesting stats on education--check out Education 2.0, how technology enhanced learning, etc. Socrato! website

Daytum is a project of infographic designer, Nicholas Feltron, that allows people to "collect, categorize and communicate your everyday data."

This is the designer whose 2010 annual report I showed Susan & Diana at the KPI meeting. Here, you can view the stunning infographics from his annual reports over the past few years.

Flipped Classroom on how students use classroom time to apply their learning in group activities and out of class time to watch videos or other online resources that convey the content.

"Create a visualization in three easy steps "

On the topic of data visualization, this tool enables users to build a "visualization" of their resumes.

I think that this is an interesting idea, though I'm not sure that the few samples (created by employees) take the visualization concept far enough. I wonder if/how we could create a data visualization resume to reflect the 10-year experience of KPI.

This site is both a blog/resource for those with an interest in data visualization and a gallery (see Visualizations link). Many interesting competitions are announced; the most recent is posted by the UN Human Development Report office; winners of this contest will be invited to an international UN conference in Brazil