by Jayne Johnson on October 19, 2008
This is great fun – create your own Word Cloud!
I got this idea for making word clouds from my ingenious friend James Burgin, who told me about this website Wordle
It’s so easy! My first one I called Spiritual Sunshine :
Then I made another one about some of my Favorite Books.
The program at Wordle is SIMPLE to use, and I’d like to add, quite possibly addicting…. so be forewarned!
Total fun and creativity in one package. Great for kids too!
You just put in the words you want and end up with a little work of art!
Step-by-Step:
1. Go to the Wordle website
2. Click “Create Your Own”
3. Easy way: Type words in the text box or paste in words – any order. Doesn’t matter.
4. If you want a word to stand out & be larger than the other words, just put it in the text box multiple times
5. If you want two words together, omit spaces between them. Exs: UnderstandingLife, ClearingWorks
6. Click “Go”
7. Then you see your word cloud and you have choices with “Edit, Language, font, layout, color.”
HELPFUL HINTS:
I learned this the hard way – I didn’t know how to get back to the text box to change something and had to start over. After that experience I copied and pasted all my words into a Word doc so I could reference it and copy/paste from it.
When you’re done, I suggest loading your word cloud onto the wordle gallery – you can do it anonymously. Once yours is in the gallery, get the URL for it so you can reference it/find it later. When it’s loaded into the Gallery, you’ll see the URL in your browser.
Your comments are welcome!
Click on the title at the top – “Latest Fun – Wordle!” – scroll to the bottom and there’s a text box where you can make your own comment about Word Clouds!
Technorati Tags: Books, Favorite Books, Understanding Life, Word Cloud, Words
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by Jayne Johnson on October 9, 2008
For the 2008 baseball season, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays baseball team changed the team name to TAMPA BAY RAYS – see my July 6 blog post
GONE for good was the word DEVIL!
The big news today is that this team has found their way into the MLB American League Series Championship Series. The winner goes to the World Series.
In Major League Baseball, you can’t get any higher achievement or honor than that!
FYI: Tampa Bay is a city on the western coast of the U.S. state of Florida, and the Devil Ray is a type of ray.
Before continuing, I’d ask those of you who live in another country and/or you are not a baseball fan to please bear with me. The content here is baseball, but the CONTEXT is about our word choice — the words that we speak and write are vitally important. The words we use can improve or ruin our lives — my article “Awareness and Communication” elaborates on this principle, which some consider one of the Laws of the Universe.
OK, so let’s look at the history, the statistics, of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays:
* 10 losing seasons;
* 9 last-place finishes in their division;
* never finished closer than 18 games out of first in their division;
* lost 96 games last year, worst in the MLB…..
….a year later they dropped the word Devil and now they’re playing for a chance to go to the World Series.
Even if they don’t make it, what they’ve already attained is clearly remarkable!
The Devil’s Advocates – pun intended – will surely say the Rays could have accomplished all this anyway, with or without the name change.
I would not argue with that. Of course that is possible.
All I am saying is that the TAMPA BAY RAYS have an excellent chance to get into the World Series this year, and at the very least, it’s an INTERESTING COINCIDENCE!
Read More about the TB Rays
Technorati Tags: Major League Baseball, MLB Baseball, MLB Playoff Games, Sports, Tampa Bay Rays, Word choice, Words
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by Jayne Johnson on September 11, 2008
HOW TO PREDICT THE FUTURE
3-Day Seminar with Robert Kiyosaki
October 24th, 25th & 26th, 2008 • Scottsdale, Arizona
“By studying Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller’s work on prognostication, you will learn how the future is not traveling in a straight line. You will learn how to change your life by changing your future.”
Watch Video – Register
Great photo of Robert Kiyosaki and Buckminster Fuller, 1981
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by Jayne Johnson on September 3, 2008
Thank you to one of my blog readers for this feedback:
“I posted my comment on your blog (Aug. 24th ”They “Tried” All Right!“) but somehow I don’t see it.”
Got it. Here’s some good news! Only the blog moderator can “approve” a comment that has been submitted to the blog.
Any comment not approved does not become available for the public to view. No one can see it.
So, if anyone says something vulgar or negative or uses bad language — anything you don’t want — the moderator can delete it or ignore it, and no one else will see it.
A while ago I discovered that blogs sometimes get spammed too. I saw some “comments” come in to my blog that were very nasty – horrible stuff! Fortunately, there is a spam-catcher built-in to the “WordPress” blog program. That’s the first place to catch spam.
Second, as the moderator of the blog, I will see it and mark it as spam. And the program gets smarter and smarter, so what it misses the first time it will catch subsequent times.
So, this is more good news about blogs, and I’m glad the question came up. Nothing goes on a blog without the moderator’s permission!
If you’ve ever thought about having your own blog but were worried about it getting out of control, this information should alleviate that concern.
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by Jayne Johnson on August 29, 2008
Thanks for this question: How do I post my comment on your blog?
POSTING YOUR COMMENTS IS AS EASY AS 1- 2 – 3 !
1) Click once on the title of the post and it takes you to a separate page, a page just for that post -
Example – Blog Post of Aug 24th:
2) Click “Add Comments” to the right of the title and you’ll arrive at “Leave a Reply” -
3) Write your comment in the box provided and then hit the “Submit Comment” button -
Voilà! You’re done!
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