I’ve been experimenting with different ways to get the message out about the opportunity to collaborate on stories I’m working on and came across this neat way to embed multimedia elements into a single picture. Called http://www.thinglink.com, it means you can embed the links to other media (using different styles of icons) and create an easily shareable final interactive image. No code required.
Simply mouse over the image and the buttons to click onto for additional material become visible.
I’m just about to finish this story about a charity working with entrepreneurs in Congo which has been funded by members of Contributoria and so have created this particular image in a bid to spread the word here on my blog, via my newsletter, on Twitter and Facebook etc.
But it’s very easy to see how it could be powerfully applied to a news feature with multimedia elements emanating from a strong picture too.
