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Practical research

The document discusses the importance of social advocacy in developing ICT projects, emphasizing the role of social media in community engagement and improvement. It highlights the necessity of research skills for innovation and effective audience profiling, which includes understanding demographics and psychographics. Additionally, it outlines the steps to create infographics, including data collection, visualization, and design, while providing examples of different infographic types.

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Practical research

The document discusses the importance of social advocacy in developing ICT projects, emphasizing the role of social media in community engagement and improvement. It highlights the necessity of research skills for innovation and effective audience profiling, which includes understanding demographics and psychographics. Additionally, it outlines the steps to create infographics, including data collection, visualization, and design, while providing examples of different infographic types.

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• social

advocacy in
developing
an ict
project
• One of the most used by the people
today is the social networking sites or
simply social media.It is collective
online communication channels
dedicated to community input,inte-
raction,content sharing collaboration.
• ICT projects range from community
improvement to larger economic
development.Around the
world,there are wide variety of
projects that incorporates the used
of ICT for improvement.
RESEARCH FOR CONTENT
• Research is essential wether you
love it or hate for there is a real
urge for it.
• Every day,we undergone with
different problems and dillemmas
in life and finding their solution.
• Sometime it hard and takes time
when research is needed.
• According to (Western Sydney
University,
Research is defined as the creation of
new knowledge and/or the use of existing
knowledge
in a new and creative way so as to generate
new concepts,methodologies and
understandings.
• On the other hand,research
skills are our ability to find an
answer to a question or
solution to a problem
• Research skills also include
the ability to gather
information about the topic.
• We have to review that
information,analyze and
interpret the information in a
manner that brings us to a
solution.
• Thats is why research is a must in
delivering
innovation,integration,promotion
and to build change to a society or
community.with this,learning the
basic of research skills sre
essential for the 21st century in
making life more convenient and
smarter.
•Theses consists of
identifying the current
trends ,demands,working
formats,as well as the popular
authors and topics.
[Audience Profiling]
• Audience profiling is the process of
defining excatly who your target
audience is by unifying and analyzing
their behaviors across multiple
platforms and touchpoints.(Steve
Klin,2018).in this project,you need to
consider the demographics and
psychographics of your intended
audience.
• 1.Demographics-is one of the
methods in audience profiling
defines not only the population of
your audience but also the work
that they do.It also tells where
they live,their gender,age,income
level,religion,ethnicity,education
level,and knowledge level.
• 2. Psychographics-is the
classification of people according
to their personal
characteristics,lifestye,attitudes,
social
class,aspirations,values,tastes,acti
vities,and interest and other
psychological criteria.
Infographics
• According to the Oxford English
Dictionary,an infographic (or
information graphic) is "a visual
representation of information or
data”.But the sense of an infographic is
composed of set of collection of various
imagery,charts,and text that gives an
easy-to-read and easy-to-understand
synopsis of a certain topic or issue.
•It becomes a strong means of
communication tool for
businesses,governments,health
and wellness,educational
institutions and many more…
STEPS IN MAKING YOUR
INFOGRAPHICS
• 1.Outline the goals of your infographic-
(why are you making this infographic?)this
is the hardest part wich talks about on what
should your infographic be about?what is
the core message you want to deliver and
how will you deliver it?you should
remember to recognize that your creating
an essential infographic,so that your
audience can gain something very specific
from the reading it.
2.collect data dor your
infographics-(what should you
present?)-after knowing what your
infographic is all about,now you
have to gather data of your chosen
topic.
these are the two different styles and
approaches you can use on gathereng
and collecting your data:
• a.self-made data-this approach requires
more time for you need to us around,send
some emails,do research online,create
your own made survey and process your
own conclusion.

• b.data sources-this is the easiest way to


gather information to get ready-made
information that you can find on the
books,magazines,news paper and
• 3.Visualize the data in your
infographic-(decide how to
present data visually.)-
visualizing your data is about
choosing the type of
infographic you want to use.
There are different types of
infographic as shown below:
• a.Statistical infograpics-shows a summary or
overview of data with one or more graphs,table
or list.
• b.Timeline infographics(time-oriented)-shows
progress of infomation over a chronological
time period.
• c.Process infographics-demonstrates a linear
or brancheng process as how to teach the
workings of an object or flow chart showing
choices in a decision process.
• d.Infomational infographics-are most
likely a poster that summarizes topic with
some extra bits of information.
• e. Geographic infographics-displays
data with a location map.
• f.Compare/contrast infographics-
illustrates notable similarities or
differences as a“this versus
that”infographic or as a table or simple list.
• g.Hierarchical infographics-demonstrate
a chart with level.
• h. Research-based infographics- is
similar to the statistical infographic, but
based on research. it can be used to
compare unlike items with popular sets of
data.

• i. Interactive Infographics- gives viewers


the control to modify the infographic and is
web-based.
4. Layout The Elements Of Your
Infographic Design(all thats left is
layout and design)- This step is all
about placing theme all together
into an attractive looking
infographic design. This is to guide
your layout and information flow.
• 5.Add style to your infographic
design(value added content.)-this is
about putting your own style and
personal touch,just be creative in
combining text,shapes and images in
your most creative in combining
text,shapes and images in your
creative way.
suggested third party online site(but
not limited to)that you can work on
in creating your infographics
• canve
• easelly
• picktochart
• venngage

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