Pretty Jazzed About My New Moo Cards

My good friend Andy Ciordia is the closest thing I have to a coworker.  My clients think more highly of me when I bring him to a project — he’s a social media and design whiz and all-round nice guy.

Andy designed these two versions of a business card for me using tag clouds!  Ordered them from MOO and can’t wait to see them. The other side has my contact info (of course) and a mugshot. I went ahead and included my Twitter handle @TamelaRich while I was at it.

Tell me, are you using your Twitter handle on yours?

Anyone else noticing how few business cards you need these days compared to five years ago? And resumes? Heck, you wanna see mine, go to LinkedIn.

Corporate Bankruptcy Word Cloud

Here’s a free word cloud maker:  www.wordle.net

Simply copy-paste your text or give Wordle an RSS feed and let it work its magic.  When it spits out your custom image, you can play with the layout, fonts and colors to your heart’s content.

I took the two (so far) responses to “Corporate vs Personal Bankruptcy Attitudes” and fed them through Wordle and got this result:

Financial Word Clouds

Catching up on reading this weekend and came across two great word clouds in Pat Allen’s Rock The Boat Marketing blog.

For those new to my blog, I post word clouds because they’re valuable whole-brain communications tools; a brief glance tells you what’s important to the author.   Use them in presentations, websites and white papers.

Tell me, please, where you’ve employed a word cloud.

Fidelity’s July US economic update

Oppenheimer’s Weekly Market Review

More Word Cloud Love

As a student of whole-brain communications I love a good word cloud.

Here’s one from today’s presidential speech in Cairo.

Tag Cloud and Editorial Calendar

Illustration courtesy of Wikopedia

This morning I decided to manage my tag cloud.  The tag cloud is a whole-brained way to look at the things you’re blogging about.  It reflects your priorities.

Satisfying the left brain are the words themselves; feeding the right brain are the relative sizes and intensities of each word to the others, letting you know at a glance which topics get more attention by the blogger.

To the left is a good example of a web cloud with the dominant theme of Web 2.0.  Surrounding it are first order tags for Convergence, Design, Participation, Usability, Economy, Remixability and Standardization, with a variety of other topics in second and third order.

Were my posts properly and fully tagged?   No.  Did the topics reflect my priorities?  No. I revised my editorial calendar.

Look out for more on using case studies and whole brained communications.