Wowing with word clouds

11-03-09 | Posted by: melanie

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Wordle is a word cloud generator. You add some text, a URL or an RSS feed and it will create a beautiful cloud of words. The cloud is like a word picture, giving a visual representation of the information. Once you've created your cloud you can choose different colours, fonts and shapes for your words. It's a fun tool to use and there is something very addictive about watching the words appear on the screen.

We used it to create some simple business cards;

word cloud representing electric putty services

It's such a joy to use I came up with a few practical uses so I've got legitimate reasons to play with it!

  • Presentations - convey the main ideas of your presentation
  • Mood boards - create a textual mood board to convey a theme
  • Analysis - distil information from blogs, speeches or articles into main topics

I'd be interested to hear about any other ideas you might have or ways you've used Wordle. You can see what other people have done in the Wordle Gallery, pop over for some inspiration and then have a go yourself.

Other wordle stuff elsewhere:

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