JuliannaBetween our staff and management group, we attend numerous events hosted by a range of organizations, affiliations and charities over the course of a year. Sometimes we’re asked to bring collateral material about our services. Along the way, we decided it would be better to provide people with something more useful than yet another flyer or brochure.
Over the last two years we have created a number of bite-sized resource guides on a range of different topics – for example, ‘Checklist for developing your online presence’, ‘Internet marketing tips and tools for small businesses’, etc. The topics usually come from questions posed by customers or advice sought by colleagues, many of them small business people or entrepreneurs looking for economical solutions to save them time and money.
Below is a resource list we originally put together for the Forum of Women Entrepreneurs (BC Chapter), whose members frequently balance busy schedules between work and home. The tools and resources featured can help integrate work and home more seamlessly; increase your efficiency; facilitate collaboration on projects with coworkers, friends and family and help people build out their professional network. Many of them are fun to use, but perhaps best of all, they are all FREE. Check them out below:
Want to learn more about “social networking,” quantum physics, HTML, dachshund dogs or just about anything else under the sun? Check out the largest multilingual encyclopedia on the Internet. Over two million articles and still growing – www.wikipedia.org
Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint and virtually any other printable file to high quality PDF documents for free without the need to purchase Adobe Acrobat Writer- www.primopdf.com
No need to courier large CDs and DVDs of files too large to send by e-mail. Send up to 100 MB files to any recipient for free – www.yousendit.com
Set up this do-it-yourself news clipping service. Keep on top of the latest developments in your industry, track online references about your business and the competition. News is emailed to your inbox daily – www.google.com/alerts
Increase your professional connections, build exposure and word of mouth in your industry by using an online business network – www.linkedin.com
Collaborate virtually on projects with colleagues and clients on the web; chart project progress, mark milestones, upload and download files, make lists, post messages – www.basecamphq.com 
Make images for work, family and friends available for download. Upload them from your home computer or mobile device; send links to individual photos; add them to your RSS feed and post to your blog – www.flickr.com
Establish yourself as an Industry expert by adding a weblog to your website – www.wordpress.com
Manage, organize, tag and access your bookmarks from any computer with Internet access – http://del.icio.us/
Keep track of different versions of spreadsheets and word documents sent via email with Google Doc’s and Spreadsheets. Let people update files from their own computers, coordinate group assignments, access your work and family to-do lists remotely, and collaborate virtually with colleagues- docs.google.com
Communicate via voice and video conferencing with people around the world using Voice over IP (VoIP). North American users can make free calls to landline and mobile phones in the US and Canada – www.skype.com
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