Graphics for social media

[MyfanwyNixon]

To help spread the word about Gender Balance, it'd be great to accompany FB and Twitter updates with strong visuals. (Take a look at https://twitter.com/mashable for an account that regularly uses these to make tweets more noticeable).

Right now, these could take the form of 'get involved' type messaging, eg "Which legislatures have the highest proportion of women? We don't know! But you can change that" or "Who has more female politicians, Iceland or Russia? We don't know! Help us find out".

As data comes in, we could start putting out the results, or little tasters that make people want to click through for more.

[tmtmtmtm]

It would be great if these were suitable for a 'country of the week' type of approach, where we could feature countries that no-one really chooses to play on their own.

[MyfanwyNixon]

Sweet!

[zarino]

So a quick look at Mashable and other similar accounts I follow, indicates that the images almost exclusively lack any overlaid words – they're just photos that illustrate the point or provide a humourous counterpoint to the text in the tweet:

That said, I quite like this one from Mashable, with a quote on it, although to work really the quote has to be not only relevant but also sort of epic:

[MyfanwyNixon]

I think we can do epic in some cases!