1. How did I approach finding the different elements of my Storify Post?
For my Storify on infographics, I chose to include several “successful” and several “unsuccessful” infographics to illustrate and highlight the sheer volume of infographics that are online today and the pros and cons of using these as a form of marketing. In searching through Google, 12,600,000 hits came up for infographics alone. Due to this amount of infographics and articles regarding infographics, it made it easy to search for specific terms / issues relating to infographics. I was overwhelmed with the amount of information available for this topic, but in a way, I was not surprised. Infographics are a mainstream graphic design element that are seen everywhere (Boston Pizza even has one). I did narrow down my search by looking at the visuals as well as types of infographics- successful vs unsuccessful. Some keywords I used where municipal infographics, successful infographics, bad infographics, marketing and infographics.
As a visual learner, I included many visual pieces in this Storify to illustrate the sheer volume of infographics that are available. I think this Storify could have been much longer in length and maybe delved in deeper to the meaning or importance of this form of marketing. I did find the broken nature of Storify breaks down the flow of the overall narrative, and I found I was trying to control this application a bit too much.
3. Do you think this post gives the whole picture?
In terms of using Storify to give a full picture of your issue- I think yes and no. I think the ability of Storify to combine images and text is a great resource, but it does give a very broken appearance and overall disjointed “essay.” The links, images, and text may not all showcase the points that one is trying to make.
4. Do you think you can use Storify as a starting point for an academic essay?
I think Storify would be a great application to start an academic paper on- it is very easy to use as well as allows for easy “tagging” of relevant articles across many types of websites. I think this also allows for an easy way to link, and document your sources (always a struggle in Web 3.0 citing)
For my Storify on infographics, I chose to include several “successful” and several “unsuccessful” infographics to illustrate and highlight the sheer volume of infographics that are online today and the pros and cons of using these as a form of marketing. In searching through Google, 12,600,000 hits came up for infographics alone. Due to this amount of infographics and articles regarding infographics, it made it easy to search for specific terms / issues relating to infographics. I was overwhelmed with the amount of information available for this topic, but in a way, I was not surprised. Infographics are a mainstream graphic design element that are seen everywhere (Boston Pizza even has one). I did narrow down my search by looking at the visuals as well as types of infographics- successful vs unsuccessful. Some keywords I used where municipal infographics, successful infographics, bad infographics, marketing and infographics.
As a visual learner, I included many visual pieces in this Storify to illustrate the sheer volume of infographics that are available. I think this Storify could have been much longer in length and maybe delved in deeper to the meaning or importance of this form of marketing. I did find the broken nature of Storify breaks down the flow of the overall narrative, and I found I was trying to control this application a bit too much.
3. Do you think this post gives the whole picture?
In terms of using Storify to give a full picture of your issue- I think yes and no. I think the ability of Storify to combine images and text is a great resource, but it does give a very broken appearance and overall disjointed “essay.” The links, images, and text may not all showcase the points that one is trying to make.
4. Do you think you can use Storify as a starting point for an academic essay?
I think Storify would be a great application to start an academic paper on- it is very easy to use as well as allows for easy “tagging” of relevant articles across many types of websites. I think this also allows for an easy way to link, and document your sources (always a struggle in Web 3.0 citing)
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