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Journalist with 12 years experience (broadcast / online) now specializing in in information design and online content.
An MA graduate in Online Journalism, focusing on entertainments and pop culture data, shortlisted for an Information is Beautiful Challenge Award.
Clients include publishers, local government bodies, statistics websites Oh My Gov and Microsoft.
I also help teach data journalism, online journalism and social media at Birmingham City University.
Icons, pictograms, smileys, dingbats – call them what you like – visual language is a fascinating area of design. Yes, varieties of visual language has been used for years, with varying degrees of success, and it’s likely that icons…
Fancy giving one of these “infographics designer tools” a go? Check out my quick review of Easel.ly and Piktochart, and find out why they’re not always the best option
Since I started working for myself, I’ve been on a hunt for that *perfect* place to work. I tried the various coffee shops around Birmingham (read my findings here) but working in a coffee shop 5 days a week…
![Visualising Meteors [video]](http://carolinebeavon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/meteor-square.png)
In response to this dataviz challenge, I decided to have a play with this really interesting dataset of meteors. Undecided whether I’m going to enter the challenge or not, as I certainly wouldn’t enter this video – but it’s an…
Following on from my previous blog post on corporate social media use, here are a few tips to writing good messages on Twitter (or tweets). A similar post about Facebook will follow. No Autopost If you have blog, it…
This is a work-in progress – feel free to comment below! Thanks I am very interested to see the variety of different ways companies use social media. Some use their Facebook pages to promote their Friday snacks, others use…
I’ve just received this email from Posterous Spaces about the service closing down. I paste it below Hi Caroline,Posterous launched in 2008. Our mission was to make it easier to share photos and connect with your social networks. Since joining…
![Bham Council to cut grit bin numbers – but where are they now? [map]](http://carolinebeavon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/grit-bin-featured-image-150x150.png)
A few weeks back I was inspired to map the grit bins in Birmingham, due to the *very* dangerous icy pavements around the Jewellery Quarter. This appeared on my hyperlocal Tumblr blog, This is the JQ. Now the Council bosses…
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