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Free Online Whiteboard Reviews – Courtesy of…

Online whiteboards have been around since 1998 when Groupboard.com launched the first collaborative web-based whiteboard. With the increasing popularity of online tutoring and other forms of internet collaboration, internet whiteboards have become increasingly important tools for distance learning, collaborative designing, and online meetings. In recent years, there has been a profusion of new online white [...]

Can Office Web Apps Compete with Google Docs?

With the growing popularity of Google Docs and Openoffice.org as free alternatives to the Office Suite, Microsoft has finally responded with it’s own Office Web Apps on Skydrive, launched this past Monday. This release comes one week before Microsoft Office 2010 is launched on the market for consumers (it’s been on sales for businesses for [...]

Free Survey Tool Reviews – Thanks to…

The following information has been provided by Michaela Mora of Relevant Insights, a Texas based Market Research firm. If you have insights into the web’s truly free resources for business – please share them with us!
- freesourcing.org
This recession has been hard on many market research departments across industries and company sizes. Internal market research teams [...]

Twitter for Business: 101

This video tutorial is so great, we just had to share it. It’s a basic 101 education for new comers to Twitter, but also makes a nice refresher/reinforcement for the experienced folks who may have found themselves “lost in the noise”. If you fall into the beginner category, I’ll also recommend checking out business.twitter.com/twitter101 for [...]

Freesource your hiring efforts: oDesk

oDesk let’s you build a remote workforce from anywhere around the world. You can post jobs, find candidates, and interview for free. oDesk also focuses in on building a remote workforce, so they’ve created tools for payment, workflow, collaboration AND provided the functionality that let’s you track and pay only for progress.
Check out the overview:

Freesourcing over 3G Coming Soon…

The latest update on using Skype over 3G…

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 [...]

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 [...]