I'd used Wordle once or twice before for Library posters etc., so it was nice to go back to something I was familiar with and play around with alternative layouts and colour schemes. The site is very easy to use, and does exactly what it says on the tin! It's annoying not to be able to save the Wordle, but it is simple enough to copy, paste and crop in a Word document.
We have used Wordles to advertise Library resources to staff. I have always inputted my own words and haven't yet tried to put in a bunch of text. It would be interesting to see how that would turn out.
Another word cloud creator site is Tagxedo
There are nice examples of how to use word clouds in different settings, and some of them are really beautiful! The only problem is that you need to install the Silverlight program to create the word cloud.
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