Make your own Christmas video

Carol — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:30:41 +0000

It’s that time of the year when those of us in this part of the world are heading to the beach for a break. I’ll be back at my desk 4 January.

As well as wishing you a great festive season, I’d like to introduce you to a great little video making tool called Animoto.

All you do is load some photos and/or add some text, choose your music from their list & click the button. The smart people (or machines) at Animoto will mix your video in a couple of minutes. You can make unlimited 30 second videos for free or you can pay an annual fee of $30US for unlimited longer videos.

Here’s mine below – exported to YouTube. Click here view the original at Animoto – better quality.

Make your own at Animoto. (For the record I used the Pop-up Pandemonium theme.)

Wordle – make a nifty graphic for your business

Carol — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:34:03 +0000

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

It’s very easy – go to the Wordle ‘create’ page. You can copy some text into the text box, enter a URL, or use a delicious user name. The site does its magic and creates your Wordle in a matter of seconds. Once you’ve generated your Wordle you can change it manually by choosing fonts, colours etc or you can hit the ‘Randomize’ button & see what Wordle will do for you. And it’s all FREE.

I Wordled the tags from this blog and here are a few versions that I liked from ‘randomizing’.

As you can see, they’re all very different, so you could easily find a style to suit your purpose.

How could you use Wordle in business?

The immediate use that comes to mind is to use it to represent your products or services or perhaps the values of your business. What a novel way to display your business!

I’m sure you’re more creative than I am, so please let us know how you think Wordle could be used for business by telling us in the comments section.

If you’d like to see a range of Wordles made by others click here. To make your own – go to the Wordle site.

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Make your own Christmas video

Wordle – make a nifty graphic for your business

How could you use Wordle in business?