15 more awesome social media infographics

About six months ago, I threw together a blog post based on a bunch of social media infographics. At the time, they were surprisingly difficult to root out, but it seems that more are emerging, given the continued development and understanding of the channel.

I've now collected a few more newer infographics that I feel demonstrate a mixture of both hard data and strategy practices. Hopefully, they'll also provide some inspiration or can be useful in helping you with presentations or pitches. As before, links to the actual graphics are in the headline titles.

The social media effect

The social engagement spectrum

The boom of social sites

Information, creation and circulation before Twitter

Information, creation and circulation after Twitter

Spectrum of online friendship

Doughnut Marketing

If the Twitter community were 100 people... 

The CMOs guide to social media

Who participates online?

Understanding Facebook

When social media attacks!

Social marketing compass

Social Web - Reputation Management Cycles

Profile of a Twitter user

Jake Hird is Econsultancy Australia's Director of Research and Education. Follow him on Twitter and Google+, connect with him on LinkedIn or see what he's keeping an eye on via diigo

Add your own

Reader comments (19)

  1. Avatar-blank-50x50 TSSVeloso

    11:44AM on 14th June 2010

    What a great round-up. I leave also a suggestion for a lot more infographics a visualizations about Social media: Visual Loop (http://visualoop.tumblr.com/), with hundreds of them.

    Keep up the great work!

    @TSSVeloso

  2. Avatar-blank-50x50 Ian Berry

    2:06PM on 14th June 2010

    Thank you Jake Best analysis I have come across.  Well done.

  3. Avatar-blank-50x50 John Joyce

    2:25PM on 14th June 2010

    Hey Jake, I would like to add my Interactive Online Marketing Ecosystem for everyone to check out. http://bit.ly/9wSE0a Thanks, - John

  4. Avatar-blank-50x50 Jane van Velsen - The Right Writer

    2:27PM on 14th June 2010

    Thanks!  These are great and saves loads of time for me when I have to pull something together for a presentation on social media for a client!  Really appreciated!

  5. Avatar-blank-50x50 Debbie Hemley

    2:30PM on 14th June 2010

    Hi Jake, Thanks for posting all of these. What a great collection! Infographics work really well to explain lots of things but do an exceptional job helping to explain the complexities and different routes that social media communications can take. Nice post! Debbie Hemley

  6. Jake Hird Jake Hird Staff

    Director of Research and Education at Econsultancy

    3:15PM on 14th June 2010

    @TSSVeloso - Thanks, good call. Some interesting ones there that I've not seen before. 

    @Ian - Cheers Ian, although I didn't think I'd given too much analytical input to this particular collection?! 

    @John - Great link, really useful to see all the different social properties split out into individual areas. Thanks for this. 

    @Jane - No problem, glad you found them useful. 

    @ Debbie - Thanks. I always prefer visualisations when it comes to complex areas and figured keeping all these to myself wasn't exactly in the spirit of "social sharing"...! 

  7. Avatar-blank-50x50 Sean Supplee

    11:51PM on 14th June 2010

    Awesome graphics exp the social media one actually found two decent sized sites I do not currently use that I will be sure to tap into now.

  8. Avatar-blank-50x50 weblike

    7:07AM on 15th June 2010

    Fantastic input for some real good and funny PPPs. :)

  9. Marie Page Marie Page MSc

    Director at Musicademy

    10:01AM on 15th June 2010

    Thanks so much for sharing this. Of such use to people writing or speaking on social media. Very much appreciated

  10. Avatar-blank-50x50 Nabeel

    8:57PM on 16th June 2010

    Totally awesome. Profile of a Twitter User is neat. In my mind I've kinda segregated those that I follow...but to see them defined into groups, that was clever!

  11. Avatar-blank-50x50 Alexandre Plennevaux

    9:22PM on 16th June 2010

    how about putting the credits of each of these infographics. I've recognized one from David McCandless (informationisbeautiful.net) but you link directly to the file, not to the website and you don't mention his name. You are asking for a lawsuit?

  12. Avatar-blank-50x50 jlrsn

    10:06PM on 16th June 2010

    There are 100 tweeters and 5 have MORE than 100 followers? Sense not this makes. http://s3.amazonaws.com/infobeautiful/twitter2_550.gif

  13. Avatar-blank-50x50 Jen

    3:25PM on 17th June 2010

    Love these social media graphics! I took a shot at doing one myself; It's less polished but it was fun! http://searchslingshot.com/2010/06/its-a-social-media-world/

  14. Avatar-blank-50x50 Stacy

    9:19PM on 17th June 2010

    LOVE the "profile of a twitter user" absolutely classic!

  15. Avatar-blank-50x50 Faouzi

    8:09AM on 19th June 2010

    Thank You so much. The research on social media is so beneficial. Especially when shared.

  16. Avatar-blank-50x50 Alicia

    1:08PM on 6th July 2010

    Very good. "Profile of a twitter user" seems gender-biased to me, though. It depicts a very old fashioned point of view in a cool 2.0 way. Ironic...

  17. Avatar-blank-50x50 กาแฟ

    9:32AM on 13th July 2010

    Totally awesome. Profile of a Twitter User is neat. In my mind I've kinda segregated those that I follow...but to see them defined into groups, that was clever!

  18. Avatar-blank-50x50 daniel zane

    6:45PM on 26th July 2010

    amazing article daniel zane hertfordshire uk

  19. Avatar-blank-50x50 Shennan T.

    10:19PM on 9th September 2010

    That is really cool.  Each of these look like some sort of cool web design (even though they're not)

Log in to post a comment