542Linnemann Week 3 Gen web Res Rev. easel ly http://www.easel.

ly/ is a website on which you can post visual ideas you have created. I had not heard of easel.ly. They offer a 1 minute, 40 second video purporting that they make it easy to put your visual ideas online. There is a tool they offer called a vheme which is a visual theme, like a template, which can be dragged and dropped to facilitate creation of a visual idea. Vheme reminds me of memes. Is there a relationship between the vheme and the meme? In googling, I found a vheme according to techcorner.tsnn.com: (http://techcorner.tsnn.com/content/reviewthree-popular-infographics-generators) to be a pre-created template. Vheme:

On the other hand, a meme is a transmittable cultural element (http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/06/where-the-word-meme-comes-from/),reportedly coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976. Memes:

The easel.ly website is in beta. Googled, it means in testing. There have been 360,000 visuals created with easel.ly as of 12/29/13.

I registered on easel.ly. This is a snippet (thank you, June) of what I got just briefly playing with it.

I think easel.ly is tremendous. The possibilities are infinite. Cant wait until I have time to play with it.