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Resources
Minnesota Jobs
Accessibility 
Blogging
- Buzznet
A mobile/photo blogging community - Weblogs Compendium
Everything you need to know about weblogs/blogs: hosting
services, tools, directories, definitions, RSS readers and
resources
Broadband
CSS
Directory
Domains
- .us domain registry
Manages the .us domain space including government domains. - 000Domains.com
Registration $13.50 per year for com, org, and net domains - NameCheap.com
One of the cheapest domain services at $8.88 per year.
Eliminates the need to initially specify the domain name
servers to "park" the name. Also offers both free email and
URL forwarding. - US Domain Registration Procedures
See directions for "Registering in a Locality-based Zone"
Domains Whois
- BetterWhois
The WHOIS domain search that works with all registrars. - Whois.net
- www.whois.us
Look up US domains. Doesn't search government specific domains like ci,co,k12, lib, or state.
Government
- Census 2000 Demographic Profiles
Local and state socio-economic statistics in PDF format - Science.gov
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science
information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including
research and development results. - USA.gov
The main portal to federal resources online - USA.gov for Nonprofits
Links to federal resources available to nonprofits
Graphics
- Cooltext
Create logos and buttons online for free - Designer's Jumpola
Nice list of online resources for designers - FreeFoto.Com
FreeFoto.com is the largest collections of free
photographs for private non-commercial use on the Internet. - GIFBot
GIFBot is a free tool that compresses GIF, JPEG, and
animated GIF images. - Ideabook Clip Art Tutorial
How to choose and use clip art - Image * After
Image*After images may be used for both personal and
commercial applications. - Image Search Engines - Fagan Finder
Includes links to video and audio search engines, clip art
finders, stock photos and galleries, educational images,
and more. - iStockphoto.com
istockphoto.com does wonderful work and gives it away for
free. - MediaBuilder Image Library
Popular free image library - Microsoft Design Gallery Live
Design Gallery Live is the place to find clip art, photos,
Web animations, and sounds. - Picsearch
The search engine for pictures and images - Public domain image resources
Wikipedia links to image resources by topic - QuickBanner
Online banner generator - stock.xchng
The leading free stock photo site - The Big Book of Art
Inexpensive collection of royalty free images - +20 CDRoms - U.S. Government Photos and Multimedia
Most of these images and graphics are available for use in
the public domain; they may be used and reproduced without
permission or fee. However, some images may be protected
by license. From USA.gov - When Image is Everything
Want to know where to go for images, how to find and
download them, and the copyright issues involved? Nicolas G.
Tomaiuolo's article in Searcher (January 2002) tells
all. Well worth reading carefully.
Homework Helpers
Jobs
Legal Resources
Multimedia
- AudioFind
A multimedia internet search of audio files from Usenet - Interactive Narratives
Interactive narratives are informational and storytelling
experiences designed and produced for the web. - Mutopia Project
Mutopia is similar in spirit to Project Gutenberg, but
consists of free sheet music. - Transom
A Showcase & Workshop for New Public Radio - Windows Movie Makers
Windows Movie Maker news, tips, and information.
News
- Techdirt.
Easiest way to keep up-to-date on the latest trends in
technology and Net business. - The Scout Report
Published every Friday both on the web and by email, it
provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable
resources on the Internet. A team of professional librarians
and subject matter experts select, research, and annotate
each resource.
- U.S. News Archives on the Web
Lists U.S. newspaper home pages and direct links to
archives.
Newsfeeds (RSS)
- Syndic8
Syndicated news feeds on a wide variety of topics
Off-the-wall Stuff
- Stupid.Com
Stupid.com is the best place on the web to eat up your free
time. Here you'll find Stupid Candy, Stupid Gifts, Stupid
Jokes, and Stupid Games.
Plug-ins
Privacy
- Good Manners
In our society, privacy comes in two flavors: legally
protected and collectively imagined. - Identity Theft
U.S. government's central website for information about
identity theft -- maintained by the Federal Trade Commission. - Identity Theft Resource Center
A nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and
implementing a comprehensive program against identity theft - Kidz Privacy
Federal Trade Commission offers this resource on the 1998
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The FTC
sets rules for website operators to make sure that kids are
protected online. - Privacilla.org
Privacilla is a unique Web-based project that seeks to
capture "privacy" as a public policy issue. On the pages of
this site, you will find privacy information and links that
are designed for policy-makers, their staffs, the press, and
the interested public. - Privacy Analysis of Your Internet Connection
Demonstrates the information that is collected about you
when you visit a website. - Privacy.org
Privacy.org is a joint project of The Electronic Privacy
Information Center and Privacy International. Good resources
for current information and links.
Resources
- All My FAQs Wiki
Good example of an easy to use collaboration tool--Wiki. - BuzzWhack: The Buzzword Compliant Dictionary
Baffled by the latest Internet or computer jargon, check here. - craigslist
Free online classifieds for jobs, apartments, personals, for sale, services, community, and events - Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet: A Checklist
Handy tips from a Law Librarian - Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, working with Alexa Internet, has created the Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine makes it
possible to surf more than 10 billion pages stored in the
Internet Archive's web archive. - List-A-Day
Features a new general interest and business list each day - MIT OpenCourseWare
Free online access to selected courses (no credit offered) - MSN Video Downloads
Free and premium content - Online Conversion Tools for Adobe PDF Documents
Provides online tools to help visually disabled users whosescreen reader software is not compatible with the AdobeAcrobat Reader 5.0. These online tools convert PDF documents into either HTML or ASCII text, which can then be read by a number of common screen reader programs. - Secretsites.com
A companion site to David Siegel's book titled Secrets of
Successful Web Sites: Project Management on the World Wide
Web. - The Internet Tourbus
All about the web: free stuff, viruses, hoaxes, urban
legends, search engines, cookies, cool sites - Wikipedia
A free online encyclopedia
RSS
- Bloglines
Bloglines is a free service that makes it easy to keep up with
your favorite blogs and newsfeeds.
Search
- A9.com
A powerful search engine, using web search and image search results enhanced by Google, Amazon, GuruNet, and other reference sources - All the Web
- FindArticles.com
Indexes full-text articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals. - Gimpsy
Designed to be the purest possible Directory web site: no
banners, no buttons, no elaborate graphics, no pop-ups and
no ads. - Google
- Google US Government Search
- iTools
Quick access to the best Internet tools - MetaCrawler
- MSN Search
- My Rules of Information
Marylaine Block shares her rules for finding and accessing
information. Savvy Internet users can learn a lot from these
rules. Searcher (January 2002) - My Way
Banner-free portal powered by Google search engine - Search Systems
Largest free public records database collection - Who? Me? People Finder
A reverse people finder site: is someone looking for you online? - WISEnut
Search engine that group results by topic and offers quick
previews of webpages - Yahoo! Netrospective
10 years, 100 moments of the Web
Security
Shopping
- CouponMountain
Online Coupons and Discount Shopping - DealCatcher
DealCatcher helps shoppers find coupons, rebates,
promotions and the best prices for over 500 online merchants. - Google Catalog Search
Search and browse mail-order catalogs online - PlanetFeedback
A free services to send feedback - compliments,
complaints, questions, suggestions - to companies - ResellerRatings.com
Customer reviews of online retailers - Safeshopping.org
Information site created by the American Bar Association
covers: security, privacy, payments, terms, complaints and
tips for online shoppers - Shopping.com
Free online comparison-shopping service that lets you
compare products, prices and stores on the Web - techbargains.com
Lists current deals on tech equipment
Social Networking
- Friendster
Personal networking service - LinkedIn
Build business relationships online - Meetup
Helps groups of people with shared interests tomeet in local cafes (and other places) around the world. - Ryze
Business networking service
Software
Spam
Statistics
- A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use Of The Internet
This report is based on the September 2001 U.S. Census
Bureau's Current Population Survey - a survey of
approximately 57,000 households and more than 137,000
individuals across the United States. - Counting on the Internet
Most expect to find key information online, most find the
information they seek, many now turn to the Internet first. From the Pew Internet & American Life Project - FC Stats
FC Stats is a free online resource that provides users with
ready access to a wealth of statistical data on U.S. private
and community foundations and their funding patterns. - Getting Serious Online
Pew Internet Project study finds that "As Americans Gain Experience, They Use the Web More at Work, Write Emails with More Significant Content, Perform More Online Transactions, and Pursue More Serious Activities"
- Harris Poll
Occasional surveys of Internet use
- Home Broadband Adoption 2009
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project - Online Video
From Pew Internet & American Life Project - Pew Internet & American Life Project
Ongoing surveys and topical studies
- Statistics.com
Research Statistics and Statistical Analysis Directory - US Census
Ecommerce studies, population studies, occasional reports
- Use of the Internet at Major Life Moments
Web information is an important resource for Americans making important choices related to education and job training, investments and big-ticket purchases, and health care for themselves or for loved ones. From the Pew Internet & American Life Project study.
Style Guides
- The Web Content Style Guide
The essential guide for online writers, editors and managers
(book) - NYPL: Style Guide
The Style Guide for the Branch Libraries of the New York
Public Library explains the markup and design requirements
for all Branch Libraries web projects, along with various
standards and best practices. A work in progress.
- Style Guide for Online Hypertext
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, began
writing this style guide in 1992.It explains basic Web
concepts that are still important today. It should be
required reading for anyone involved in creating websites! - Web Style Manual
"The advice here is aimed at the practical concerns of
bending and adapting a relatively primitive authoring and
layout tool (HTML) to purposes it was never really intended
to serve (graphic page design)."
Tutorials
Usability
Web Apps (Free)
- AnyBrowser.COM
Check how your website looks using different browsers. - Blogger
Free weblog application - CafePress.com
Design and sell your own t-shirts, mugs, mousepads and
more for free. Will be adding on demand publishing solutions. - ezHTMLarea
Create web pages using this free wysiwyg HTML tool - Favicon.comr
Favicons are used by internet favorites. They offer an extra
bit of branding and website promotion. Few government sites use them but they should! - iTeamWork
iTeamwork is a free Web-based project-management tool for
anyone who needs to manage multiple projects or teams.
- Justgive.com
Donate to over 850,000 charities, donate in the name of
a loved one, or create a charity gift registry. - Mailinator
Free short-term email service, useful for avoiding spam - MyWorkTools
The first employee to employee (E2E) knowledge exchange
that enables employees to find business tools to complete
specific business tasks. Mostly inexpensive templates and
spreadsheets - Quick Topic
Quick Topic is a free, single-topic web bulletin
board that's also fully email-enabled. - Skype
Free software to make free calls anywhere in the world via broadband - Sparklit
WebApps: Poll, survey, counter, guest book, ad rotator
applications. Free version available.
- SurveyMonkey.com
WebApp: Create online surveys quickly and easily. Free
version available. - Topica
Newsletter and discussion group service - Xara Online
Web service applications for your website - Yahoo! Groups
Distribute newsletters or host discussion groups for free - Zamzar
Free online file conversion - Zoomerang
Online survey tool
Web Design
Web Design Templates
- Open Source Web Design
Free website templates sortable by date submitted, rank,
number of downloads, or author.
Web Hosting
- Homestead
Inexpensive professional and personal web site development - How to Choose a Web Host
Covers both free and commercial web-hosting services. - OrgSites.com
Free template-based websites for nonprofits - QuickSite
ThinkHost clients can use QuickSite to develop and manage
websites at no extra cost. - Tripod
Inexpensive consumer-oriented web hosting - Yahoo! GeoCities
Cheap web hosting for individuals
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