By Victoria Green Guest Contributor Infographics burst onto the scene a few years ago and have remained popular ever since. This type of content combines images and text to great effect, and you have no doubt seen hundreds of them all over the internet. But have you ever considered using
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You’re a business professional. And, perhaps unexpectedly, your job requires you to create communication designs all the time–PowerPoint presentations, data visualizations, sales reports, user’s manuals, web pages, instructions, marketing collateral, fliers, business cards, you name it. But chances are pretty good that, unless you specifically took courses in graphic design
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Design isn’t just for graphic designers and marketing gurus. If you’re good at design, you’ll succeed in ways you never thought possible. Business professionals: we live in age where there is no excuse to not be more design-conscious. And it has never been more important that you become so now.
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By Patricia Sanders Guest Contributor Over the past several years, countries within the Greater Horn of Africa have faced ongoing conflict, food insecurity, and in some cases, famine. By March of 2017 nearly 23 million people in four of those countries —Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan— were impacted (Hudson,
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By Kayleigh Toyra Guest Contributor If you’re in the market to create a customized website to represent you or your business online, then you’re in luck. Website builders are now better than ever, and accessible even for those with no design or HTML experience whatsoever. Using a website builder like
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By Jennifer Thayer Guest Contributor Being in the realm of communications, you’ve likely heard some buzz around 5G technology lately. It’s not officially on the market yet for everyday consumers, but it’s about to drop—and 5G implementation can and will be a game changer in visual communications. What is 5G
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All-you-can-eat sushi! All-you-can-eat “sushi”! What’s the difference between the two phrases above? It’s the difference between real, quality ingredients made from fresh, edible goodness and, well, some mysterious concoction that may or may not do your bowels any favors four hours after eating it. Those quotation marks make a huge
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This article was written by one of our amazing contributors! Content may include promotional links. Infographics are of the highest importance to building the right online presence for any business. A recent Forbes article on the importance of infographics reminds us that 65 percent of the population identify as visual
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By Annabelle Joynson Guest Contributor Death by PowerPoint. Despite having a certain ring to it, the phrase most likely conjures up flashbacks to the mind numbing presentations of yore… and of yesterday. We’ve stuck by it through it’s clip art phase of the 90’s, the special transition effects of the
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My experience tells me that, in theory, most high school graduates understand the most fundamental rule about using apostrophes: they are used for possession. (Oh, sure, apostrophes do other things, too [like omitting letters in contractions, among other things], but the possession thing tends to be what people think of
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