Update 2/7/10: Clicking each image will reveal the answer within the frame.
It's Wednesday so let's have a little something to push us through the middle of the week that might be fun.
I enjoy puzzles and riddles and games - so I thought it might be fun to use a slick little tool called Wordle that runs on a Google App Engine. To put it plainly, users can simply paste a number of words into the field provided and the application will generate and artistic rendition of those words. Alternately, a website address can also be used where the RSS feed of that address will be pulled in to do the dirty work. Either way, the result is a rather cool looking image where people can copy or print the content for their own websites, tee-shirts, coffee mugs or whatever. One of the cooler things the app offers up are additional options that let you select how many words are used various colors or layouts and fonts, etc. You could literally play on the Wordle site for hours and accomplish absolutely nothing. It's fantastic!
What I decided to do was push through 9 blogs and websites that I use and set Wordle to only use 10 words. Outside of setting the 10 word limitation the results you see below were completely random. Can you guess which of the images belong to which popular blogs in the Recruiting/Staffing industry?
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In looking at these (and all fun aside) I wonder what our guesses say for our impression of the blogs... the keywords we associate with them versus the keywords delivered above... where else keyword optimization or use might be ideal and deserving of additional focus...
In the interest of making this less than impossible... here are a list of the sites used - in no particular order, of course.
Hi Chris, Thanks for the updates on SXSW. I couldn...
It was great to meet you at SX chris. Love the blo...
Another great article Chris! What if LinkedIn had ...
Chris - love the LinkedIn jobs button recommendati...
It's interesting. I didn't take away that he was d...
i get it & i agree. i think that sean makes a good...
I think Hoyt kind of undermines you with his last ...
I think you may have misread Chris's post. He very...
Comments
Posted On
Feb 03, 2010Posted By
Manny James* ImSoCorporate.com = 6
* ERE.net = 2
* ResearchGoddess .com = 8
* CloudRecruiting .net = 1
* RecruitingBlogs .com = 4
* HRBartender.com = 3
* RecruiterGuy.net = 9
* FistfulOfTalent .com = 5
* Blogging4Jobs.com = 7
How'd I do?
Posted On
Feb 03, 2010Posted By
What tha?First: this is cool.
Second: how do you find this stuff?
Third: good selection of blogs and here are my choices.
2 ImSoCorporate.com
3 ERE.net
7 ResearchGoddess .com
1 CloudRecruiting .net
6 RecruitingBlogs .com
2 HRBartender.com
9 RecruiterGuy.net
4 FistfulOfTalent .com
5 Blogging4Jobs.com
What do I win?
Posted On
Feb 03, 2010Posted By
Sarah WhiteWOW! This is hard when I can't even recognize my own blog...I either need to focus more on what I write or not be so random!
So, here are my guesses...
8 ImSoCorporate.com
6 ERE.net
7 ResearchGoddess .com
2 CloudRecruiting .net
4 RecruitingBlogs .com
5 HRBartender.com
1 RecruiterGuy.net
3 FistfulOfTalent .com
9 Blogging4Jobs.com
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Feb 03, 2010Posted By
Marie EatonImSoCorporate 3
ERE 2
ResearchGoddess 9
CloudRecruiting 7
RecruitingBlogs 6
HRBartender 2
RecruiterGuy.net 1
FistfulOfTalent 4
Blogging4Jobs 8
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Feb 03, 2010Posted By
Amybeth Hale1: CloudRecruiting .net
2: HRBartender.com
3: ERE.net
4: RecruitingBlogs .com
5: RecruiterGuy.net
6: FistfulOfTalent .com
7: ResearchGoddess .com
8: ImSoCorporate.com
9: Blogging4Jobs.com
Posted On
Feb 03, 2010Posted By
Sharlyn LaubyWow! First, thanks for the mention. Hopefully, I guessed my own site correctly. ha! This is a good exercise - very creative. Thanks for sharing.
I'm So Corporate - 8
ERE.net - 5
Research Goddess - 3
Cloud Recruiting - 1
Recruiting Blogs - 4
HR Bartender - 2
Recruiter Guy - 7
Fistful of Talent - 6
Blogging4Jobs - 9
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Feb 03, 2010Posted By
jessica lee - FOTdespite reading and editing every post on FOT before it goes live... i wasn't sure! haha! i guess FOT as 6?
btw, the blog is looking gorgeous, chris. i love it!
Posted On
Feb 07, 2010Posted By
Amybeth HaleCOOL - the only ones I mixed up were 5 and 9. However - I'm disappointed in the words that popped up for my own blog! Were they only pulled from the blog, or from all my social presence? I HAVE been talking about bootcamp a lot :)
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Feb 07, 2010Posted By
Sarah WhiteYEA!!! Overall I did horrible - but I got my own blog right - so that is worth something, right? Right? No, nothing. Ok. Fine.
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