Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Wordle Play in Pictures

One option for visual knowledge representation is an oft-tagged utility we've been using in a cloud-enabled intranet that we're now piloting called Wordle.

Wordle is not a substitute for plot-pointing social neurons like the one referenced by Valdis Krebs on a recent SIKM discussion. But it does create visual maps that could be applied to a community of practice wiki, job postings, or any other transactional undertaking worthy of tracking. The tool will generate a tag cloud for any RSS feed you throw at it. You can then re-stage the representation as a widget in your social media of choice.

For example our business pipeline contains a list of prospects. Each company's recent maneuvers generates a newsfeed which is then captured as a word picture.

Here's a work-in-progress posted today called "Budget Trouble."

This sequence is not automated. The cloud does not update -- lest fees, terms, conditions and enterprise edition headaches would surely ensue.

Bravo to the developer, Jonathan Feinberg.

1 comment:

Marc Solomon said...

Andre --It's really just window dressing to give life to the claustrophobic world of text-centric info architectures. The actual platform is built on Google sites. Even then embedding the javascript from Wordle is a bit dicey -- I haven't figured out how to expand the flash object to a legible size. That said it's a real liberation to be free of SharePoint for a few hours at at time!

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