Hi fellow organizers!

Thanks for all the help brainstorming words.... wow... there were some grand ideas. 'Tis much appreciated. :)

I've started playing with word clouds in wordle.net and wanted to share my progress as it's pretty darn cool. 

I'll attach a few jpgs of the word clouds in a follow-up email as I think they may get removed from my message.  

In case you want to try making dance clouds too, here's what I did:
  • I couldn't run wordle in chrome so had to pull out explorer and update java
  • I used one of the 'advanced' options where you could select size and hex coding. The list of words with coding is below. (I used the following website for the colour/greyscale choices http://htmlcolorcodes.com/)
The following text seemed to be best outside of the word cloud itself so that it was really clear.
  • All dances taught
  • No partner needed
  • No experience needed
  • All are welcome
  • absolutely no lessons required! (there's a beginner lesson at 7:30 which helps but is not necessary)
The words and coding I used are below.

:) Emily


CONTRA~DANCE:500:000000
always~live~music:300:000000
living~tradition:300:000000
vibrant:100:000000
welcoming!:300:000000
try~it!:300:000000
all~ages:200:000000
joy:300:000000
smiles:200:000000
super~fun:300:5E5E5E
community-spirited:200:5E5E5E
participatory:200:5E5E5E
very~simple~footwork:100:5E5E5E
social~dance:300:A1A1A1
trad~fiddle~tunes:200:A1A1A1
inclusive:100:A1A1A1
lively:300:A1A1A1
all levels dance together:100:A1A1A1
delight:300:A1A1A1
connection:100:A1A1A1
move:300:A1A1A1
celebrate:100:A1A1A1