Know Your Company is a service being piloted by 37signals, which aims to help employees at medium sized businesses stay connected. It sends regular weekly emails, to which reply is optional. These emails ask either stand-up-type questions or fun get-to-know-one-another questions, and later compile them into a nice message and sends it out to everyone.
Sometimes these emails are too long, and so it seems helpful to create a word cloud that can be posted to a company network, such as Yammer.
This gist will log the ideation until a real repo is created, if this happens at all.
- https://github.com/danbernier/WordCram
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/342687/algorithm-to-implement-a-word-cloud-like-wordle
- https://zapier.com/zapbook/gmail/yammer/
- https://zapier.com/developer/scripting/#spec
The idea is that the Zapier Scripting API (linked in Resources) could be used to transform the Email into a wordcloud that could be posted to the company network. The transformation could be done by a separate app, likely hosted by Heroku. This app could receive the Zapier payload, find the body of the message, filter out unimportant content, and generate the wordcloud that would be hosted somewhere.