I like playing with wordle. I often use word clouds to help clients see if anything leaps out from a report or piece of research I’ve developed for them. I think word clouds can give a different perspective, help you see things in a different way.
Out of curiosity I shoved my resumé into wordle, to see if anything leapt out. I guess this is one of many ways you, and others, can see what you are like.
I’d love to see what other people’s resumés look like, word cloud stylee. If you want to make one I’ll happily post it on the site.
I just couldn’t sleep last night. This is an exciting week. Normally when I can’t sleep I sit around downstairs eating cereal and wishing I was asleep. Not this time. This time I chose to put my untimely awakedness to good use. I designed two more business cards. The inspiration for the owl card is clear (I hope). The graph paper one probably indicates a degree of OCD. Whatever – I like them and I’m sure whoever chooses them will too.
If you have any good examples of customer cards or what to do when you can’t get no sleep, drop us a line with your news.
Tomorrow we are getting together to discuss this very question. This informal get together which will shamelessly draw on inspiration from the ConnectingHR Unconference to hopefully create a similar buzz is happening at 48 Brushfield Street, on November 16th, between 4pm and 7pm. Admission is free and we have a few places left so if you fancy joining us, please drop me a line and I will save you a place.
One of the things we shan’t be doing is any speed networking (aggghhh!). Something we are encouraging our guests to do is to make their own business cards for the event. Why? Well other than a chance to do something a little different and expose your creative side, no good reason. Just seemed like a good idea at the time. Having kicked off this encouragement I got stuck into giving the home made approach a go, and thankfully Keira (aged 7 and 3/4) was on hand to provide artistic direction and lots of help. So I share the results with you in the hope that if you are coming next week you can now see that it’s more about personal touch than artistic quality.
Looking forward to good conversations – and more creativity!
These are my two faves so far:
Stop Doing Dumb Things to Customers Business Card
By Keira. Pencil and foam letters on white card
What Goes Around Business Card
By yours truly. Felt pen and acrylic paint on white card
