Content marketers love infographics, but the very best examples look expensive and complicated. Enter Visual.ly. The designers behind the beautiful infographics at Mint.com power the design engine at Visual.ly, helping to make high-end infographics accessible to all.

Whether pitching in the boardroom or delivering the keynote address at a conference, it’s your job to educate, engage, and inspire the audience. Good storytelling is the strongest, most reliable way to do that. Polish these skills and you can win over any audience with a compelling performance.

Real-time marketing—the ability to monitor, manage and guide your marketing efforts as they occur—is one of the most important areas of marketing today. We’re about to document the 25+ tools marketers need to know about if they’re serious about real-time marketing.

Dramatic changes have given brand marketers new opportunities to earn the consumer’s attention without paid media. Social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest empower brands to communicate directly with an audience. Here are some tips for making the shift.

Joe Pulizzi talks to Mitch Joel — a founding father of blogging and president of Twist Image — about the art of the podcast and what ‘screen’ marketers should keep their eyes on.