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Tool: Dipity Makes Creating Interactive Timelines Easy

Written by Amine on August 11, 2008 – 3:35 am -

Tool Description: Dipity allows you to create interactive timelines which can be embedded into your blog, campaign website or social networking profile. Chronological information is presented graphically using any combination of text, pictures or videos. Users can choose between a traditional timeline view, a list view, a flipbook view or a map view which presents any geotagged data or entry on a google map.

Activist Application: Campaign websites often have dedicated pages detailing background information on the campaign or the cause in addition to multiple entries or posts detailing any new or recent developments. It is often a challenge to present such information in a way that is easily and quickly understood by the average reader who might not necessarily be familiar with the campaign’s intricacies. As a visual illustration, a Dipity timeline makes it much easier to follow a succession of events and understand their details. In the example below, the FreeKareem.org is using the timeline to display the developments of the case of jailed Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer since the day of his arrest as well as developments in the campaign to free him.





Useful Features:  in addition to the ability to include multimedia such as pictures and videos in the timeline itself, an interesting feature of Dipity is the possiblity of collaboration. Several users can edit a single timeline simultaneously and work together in inputing entries and information. Timelines can also be linked to feeds and be automatically created and updatted through entries from your Picasa, Twitter, Pandora, Wordpress, Last.fm, Flickr, Yelp, Blogger, Youtube account or any regular RSS feed.

 

Tags: Collaboration, Data Visualization, Dipity, Feeds, FreeKareem, Timeline, Widget
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