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Evernote: A Noteworthy Freesource

I would like to begin this post by first thanking the people behind Evernote. I know I’m not alone in saying that a note taking and organizing solution of this caliber is right on time and sincerely appreciated. There is nothing half-baked about Evernote. This product is well thought out, well developed, and already has [...]

Enhanced: LinkedIn’s People Search

Although many users have been introduced to the new faceted search functionality (in beta), this week LinkedIn announced the official release to all users. If you enjoyed our first post demonstrating the power of LinkedIn’s Advanced People search, you’ll definitely enjoy this short video tutorial from LinkedIn on the launch of their new platform. The [...]

The Most Powerful People Search: LinkedIn Advanced

Whether you’re looking for a new job, a new hire, sales leads, or connections into a new industry or company – you can accomplish it through LinkedIn’s Advanced People Search. But, the access LinkedIn provides isn’t the mind-blowing reason this search feature ranks as one of the web’s most powerful people searches – it is [...]

Social Media (and lots more) Unleashed

Greetings Readers!
As some of you may know, the consulting group that owns freesourcing.org is a little heavy with LinkedIn Alumni, including myself. Recently it occurred to us that we should definitely unleash the power of LinkedIn for everyone, and then some other things occurred to us…. That said, this marks the beginning of two [...]

MailChimp Q&A with Groovemuse Founder

Every business day our Twitter handle @freesourcing publishes a “Freesource of the day”. Today’s Freesource is MailChimp – MailChimp is the most impressive email marketing tool I’ve seen – “period”. Aside from MailChimp being a great submission, what I found especially exciting, was the man who submitted it: Skip Blankley, the Owner and Founder of [...]

Twitter Lists Part 2: The Experience

In part one we talked about Twitter Lists being largely a organizational tool, and they are. This post highlights the rich experience and benefits I’ve had by creating just two Twitter Lists. Here’s my entry/early strategy and experience for Twitter Lists:
List 1) Met at Events & Networking
This list is totally private and consists of all [...]

LogMeIn for the Enterprise: An IT Managers Dream

In our first blog post we mentioned that “This directory helps businesses and individuals find the best tools to drive performance, reduce costs, increase sales, tighten customer relationships -and the list goes on.” We stand behind that statement and LogMeIn is the perfect example why. LogMeIn provides an enterprise solution that will allow your IT [...]

Twitter Lists, The Latest Freesource

Twitter Lists have to be the hottest addition to twitter yet. This entry is part shout out, and part informational. The shout out goes to Liz Pullen, a sociologist/ethnographer, who recently guest starred on Mashable covering Twitter Lists. Her entry titled “Twitter Lists: Frequently Asked Questions and Strategies” is simply brilliant. Liz not only calls [...]

Freesource of the Day: AddThis

Each business day, the Freesourcing.org Twitter handle @freesourcing, will publish a Freesource of the day. Today’s Freesource is AddThis. Served over 30 billion times a month to 500+ million people in 50+ languages, AddThis ranks amongs the webs most popular and used bookmarking and sharing service. AddThis makes sharing your content across the web easy [...]

EchoSign, the Value Proposition is Huge

I’m not the first to say that EchoSign offers a huge value proposition, Nathan Egan also told me when we first used it, and he’s right. EchoSign offers one of the fastest and easiest ways to get any document – proposals, offer letters, W4’s, non-disclosures, etc. – officially signed AND delivered.
Here’s the play-by-play:
1. [...]