A little while ago I came across this great tool for making word clouds. I find that when the word cloud text matches the topic of your post, the visual helps entice visitors to read further.

To make your own word clouds, head on over to Wordle.net. They make it really easy to create your own cloud by simply entering keywords into their text box and then clicking go. You can also provide Wordle with a website url and they will create a word cloud based on the keywords from that page.

Once you create your word cloud, you’ll need a way to capture the screen so you can save the image as a jpeg or gif. I use a program called called Snagit by TechSmith for screen capture, but if you want something that’s free and will do the trick, you can try Snapashot which is a free download.

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Ping.fm works with over 42 different social networks . There are too many to list them all but here are some of the main ones:

Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Skype, MSN, Google Gtalk, Ning, Delicious, Blogger, Wordpress, Flickr, MySpace

Once you’ve added your social networks to Ping, you can simultaneously update them all. You simply type out your status, micro blog, or blog post and select what networks you want to update (you can choose all networks) – then click the ‘Ping’ button.

Once you send out an update using Ping, it will automatically update all of your networks instantly.

To set up your free account, visit their site at www.ping.fm

For more information on Ping.fm, please watch this 6 minute tutorial:

Enjoy!

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