# UK Fundraising front page as a Wordle

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/07/14/uk-fundraising-front-page-wordle/
- Published: 2008-07-14T14:24:17+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Visualising information in a different and sometimes more useful way interests me,
so I was pleased to come across the free Wordle tool developed by Jonathan Feinberg,
a senior software engineer at IBM Research.

You can use it to build up a picture based on words of your choice. You can then
colour the words, change the shape of the ‘word cloud’, choose whether the words
appear vertically or horizontally, and choose from a range of fonts.

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Now you can let Wordle create an image based on the words that appear on a blog 
page or any page that is published in RSS.

Here, for example, is UK Fundraising’s Wordle taken a few minutes ago:

![UK Fundraising's RSS feed visualised as a Wordle](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/
files/u11/wordle_ukfundraising_front.gif "UK Fundraising's RSS feed visualised as
a Wordle")

What are the fundraising implications? Well, none directly, but I can imagine some
quite powerful and impressive Wordle’s built from charities’ web feeds or even the
words of a charity’s objects.

For example, here is Oxfam GB’s press release feed interpreted as a Wordle:

 ⌊Oxfam press releases by Wordle.net⌉An annual report front cover image? Or perhaps,
like a tag cloud, an alternative method of browsing and exploring a website? Or,
applied purely to fundraising, perhaps a public thank you to donors who have given
recently online (and of course who have given their permission for their name to
appear)? Perhaps major donors or regular donors’ names appear larger, or perhaps
a new donor’s name gets pride of place?

I reckon there are some useful applications for fundraisers in this beautiful tool.

www.wordle.net

 * **[Leona leaves $12 million to her dog, amusingly called Trouble – ah bless!](https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/07/14/leona-leaves-12m-her-dog-amusingly-called-trouble-ah-bless/)**(
   14 July 2008)
 * **[Fancy a Ferrari? Havens Hospice raises funds very fast…](https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/07/22/fancy-ferrari-havens-hospice-raises-funds-very-fast/)**(
   22 July 2008)
 * **[Fundraisers still among early adopters using Twitter](https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/07/24/fundraisers-still-among-early-adopters-using-twitter/)**(
   24 July 2008)