20 More Free Resources for Personal Historians.

I had a great response to an earlier post, 100 Free Resources for Personal Historians. Some of you sent me your favorite sites. I’ve collected more myself. Here they are!

• Doodle. “…takes the pain out of finding the right date and time for a group of people to meet and makes scheduling virtually effortless. The basis service is a free online coordination tool which requires neither registration nor software installation.”

• Referral Key. “…an on-line referral management system – no software to install – that supports all your referral marketing activities in one place, with minimal effort and maximum results.”

• Free and Commercial Stock Photography Sites. “Here are a handful of sites to check out when considering the use of stock photography on your next project.”

• Wordnik. “Traditional dictionaries make you wait until they’ve found what they consider to be “enough” information about a word before they will show it to you. Wordnik knows you don’t want to wait—if you’re interested in a word, we’re interested too!”

• TinEye. “…a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.”

• EasyContact. “Send a monthly company newsletter, or tip of the week; promote a seasonal sale or new product – give your customers a reason to keep your company, products and services top-of-mind.”

• Best Free CD / DVD Burning Software. “After considering many comments from the readers and investigating various programs, I have chosen four applications to receive spots for the category of Best Free CD / DVD Burning Software.”

• Tell a Friend. “With TAF4Free you make it easy for customers that love your product to recommend it to as many friends as possible. TAF4Free can be easily embedded in various blog and CMS platforms or on your website. Plus, it has a the power to publish your site to so many channels.”

• Small Business, Big Marketing. “Download your FREE copy and learn:
  • How your small business can compete with larger competitors through effective market positioning
  • How to to use the most powerful tool in the small business marketing arsenal, free publicity, and how it helps you earn credibility and exposure for your business at little to no cost.
  • Tips for reducing the costs associated with your marketing campaigns.
  • How to develop powerful marketing messages for your advertising that actually help you to sell things, not just enhance your image.
  • Guidelines for avoiding common small business marketing mistakes.
  • And Much More!”

• Creately. “…manages to harness the abilities and tools that traditional design and graphics software offer, but packages this functionality in an easy to use application that allows for collaboration between users.”  ~ Lifehacker

• The Action Method. “…a radical approach to productivity and project management.”

• Dropbox. “Put your files into your Dropbox on one computer, and they’ll be instantly available on any of your other computers that you’ve installed Dropbox on (Windows, Mac, and Linux too!) Because a copy of your files are stored on Dropbox’s secure servers, you can also access them from any computer or mobile device using the Dropbox website.”

• BibMe! “The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It’s the easiest way to build a works cited page. And it’s free.”

• Zotero. “… a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.”

• Pixoria. “…a groundbreaking online video service where home movies and people interconnect. Customers can collaborate with others by adding and sharing full resolution home movies in the secure Pixorial service. Customers can edit and remix this online content to create unique, customized video products. The final products retain the full quality and resolution of the master movies regardless of origin.”

• JFreeChart. “a free 100% Java chart library that makes it easy for developers to display professional quality charts in their applications.”

• Free Press Release Distribution Sites. Mashable “has gathered 20+ sites that will help you with getting your press release out in the world for free.”

• 26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog. “Nothing makes a blog post more eye-catching than a great header image, but not all publishers have artistic talent. And even accomplished digital creatives often crave some found material to start from or work with in a project. Luckily for all of the above, sources abound for finding a compelling photo to grab your readers’ eyes and draw them in, or to locate fresh multimedia to remix.”
• Highrise. [A free plan is available but you have to search for it!] “… does nearly everything a personal secretary might do except go out for coffee and pick up our dry cleaning.” ~ washingtonpost.com
• The Free Library. “…an invaluable research tool and the fastest, easiest way to locate useful information on virtually any topic. Explore the site through a keyword search, or simply browse the enormous collection of literary classics and up-to-date periodicals to find exactly what you need.”

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