Old : A picture is worth a thousand words

New : A picture is worth a thousand backlinks !!

Well to convey your story, try to use graphs , pictures or infographics.  Is this concept new  ?

Nope.

Illustrations have been always been very powerful.  But slowly with users creating cool info graphics, they have been catching more attention than plain text. For eg Look at the you tube flow chart below

Isn’t it cool ?

A useful link to create charts and infographics online. Some of them are free and others are paid.

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/resources/free-online-tools-create-diagrams/

The link below is list of sites which are only into info graphics.

Omni graffe

http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/

Vector Designer

http://www.tweakersoft.com/vectordesigner/index.html

Free Mind mapping software

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I tried http://www.onlinecharttool.com till now. Will update this post once I try out some more.

A graphical representation of how google works

Thanks to PPC blog for this graphical representation.

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Java developers, architects, and programmers: get ready for a real adrenaline rush. Heading up the tour are key Java technologists from Oracle, who will be demonstrating the latest Java software.  This high-tech block party on wheels is your chance to share the spirit of innovation that is the essence of Java.

On Thursday, June 24th, at the Oracle Campus 35 Network Drive,  Burlington, MA will be a special JUG meeting hosted by the Java Road Trip: Code to Coast from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.  Food and beverage will be provided.

I stumbled accorss one of the sites which has excellent resource on photoshop tutorials

Photoshop Tutorials TutorialBlog.org

It was an eventful day on Thursday 18th March. I had a chance to be part of open house meeting of HubSpot. It was a mix of business networking and chance to meet CEO of HubSpot, Brian Halligan . Brian had some very good points on why one should focus on Inbound marketing these days , citing example of Barrack Obama’s presidential campaign. He also recalled his days when they started hubspot out of MIT and how tough it was in the early days. I really liked his passion of creating an successful company on East Coast , one block away from his Alma matter , MIT.

Brian also held a small contest with all the invitees .  The invitees  will pick a site and if the site rates well on Hubspot Website Grader tool which, the winner stands to win  the book , Inbound marketing authored by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah. Read more…

If your broker provides a .txf file for your stock transactions and you do not want to spend big bucks on turbo tax, use the simple Schedule D generator excel sheet below.

ScheduleD1_Generator

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