Find Fonts with My Fonts

Branded as the world’s largest collection of fonts to, My Fonts will help you find fonts for your project, identify fonts you’ve seen, try fonts before buying, and organize fonts you like. This is a good site to locate appropriate typefaces for your design projects. Fonts can be located by the mood you want to project in categories (i.e., retro, decorative, geometric, vintage, friendly, heavy, futuristic). An example of how the site displays a typeface is as follows:

Prices vary by font.

http://www.myfonts.com

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Squarespace for Creating Exceptional Websites

An architect mentioned that she would be using Squarespace to create a website to promote her business. Being curious, I explored the application and available templates. The templates were described as useful for pages, galleries, photography, business, illustration, and blogs. Also, the website created would be suitable for mobile devices.

A 14 day free trial is available. Afterwards, pricing is $8.00 or $16.00/month depending upon subscriber needs if billed annually or $10.00 or $20.00 if billed monthly. Statistics, SEO, 27/7 customer services are available.

Go to http://www.squarespace.com to design an extremely professional looking website–no web design experience required. It’s that easy to use.

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PHPKB Knowledge Management Software

In my continuing efforts to keep abreast of what vendors are doing in the area of knowledge base software, I thought I would conduct a  product comparison search. Eventually, a comparison chart promoting PHPKB surfaced. As I analyzed the chart, I decided to perform the demo of the product. The output was formatted well and easy to read. Always remember a good knowledge base is contingent on descriptive categories and metadata that are consistently used. To view the demo, go to http://www.kbdemo.com/ or chart http://www.articlediary.com/article/comparison-of-knowledge-base-management-software-635.html.

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Researching Competitors

From article “10 Tips on How to Research Your Competition” by Darren Dahl (http://www.inc.com/guides/201105/10-tips-on-how-to-research-your-competition.html)
May 11, 2011

• SpyFu: “A great resource to research what keywords and Adwords our competitors are buying,” says Mohnot.
• Google Trends: For Mohnot, it’s helpful when he wants “to stay on top of the latest in [his] industry, comparing [his company] to others, and seeing where people who come to [his] site go.”
• Google Alerts: “We keep alerts for ourselves but also for all of our competitors to know what they are up to,” says Mohnot. (P.S. Don’t forget to set up an alert on your own company to see if anyone else is talking about you.)
• Other resources you can use to dig up information on your competitors include: Alexa, Compete, Keyword Spy, Hoovers, and ReferenceUSA.

Zotero

Release Zotero 3.0 is now available in both standalone and Foxfire versions.  Zotero is an easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.

Zotero is the only research tool that automatically senses content, allowing you to add it to your personal library with a single click. Whether you’re searching for a preprint on arXiv.org, a journal article from JSTOR, a news story from the New York Times, or a book from your university library catalog, Zotero has you covered with support for thousands of sites.

http://www.zotero.org/support/3.0

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Join.Me: Screen Sharing & Webinar Program with FREE Version

Cannot afford WebEx, try Join.me which offers free screen sharing for training and online meetings for both personal and commercial use to up to 250 participants – no registration, plug-ins or accounts required. A ‘pro’ version of the service with extended functionality is available for a monthly or annual subscription, costing $29 per month or $299 per year. Join.Me is simple to install and start using immediately.  https://secure.join.me/

Features for Free

• internet calling (VOIP)
• screen sharing
• 250 viewers
• share control
• multi-monitor
• chat
• send files (to participants or participants can send files to the presenter)
• viewer: iPad/iPhone or Android

Lynda.com Online Training Videos

24/7 reasonably priced subscription online training service that allows you to:

•  Learn new software, creative, and business skills.
• Get on-demand access to the entire video tutorial library.
• Learn at your own pace, when and where you want.
•  New courses added weekly at no additional cost.

Applications available to learn include Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word, Gmail, Squarespace, Adobe Illustrator, Drupal, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Firefox, Google Analytics, HTML, PHP, Keynote, Lotus Notes, Ruby on Rails, Microsoft SharePoint, WebEx, YouTube and many more.

http://www.lynda.com/

A 7 day trial is available with a credit card, afterwards the charge is as little as $25/month depending upon the plan selected. Details are available on the website.

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