http://freesourcing.org Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:55:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://freesourcing.org/wikimedia-commons http://freesourcing.org/wikimedia-commons#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:54:16 +0000 admin http://freesourcing.org/?p=690 Service: Repository of Freely-Licensed Media Website: http://commons.wikimedia.org Freesource Notes: Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid-for artists but by volunteers.

]]> http://freesourcing.org/wikimedia-commons/feed 0 http://freesourcing.org/social-media-governance http://freesourcing.org/social-media-governance#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:43:03 +0000 admin http://freesourcing.org/?p=687 Service: Resources & Examples on Corporate Social Media Usage Website: http://socialmediagovernance.com/ Freesource Notes: Social Media Governance helps companies clarify and manage social media priorities, coordinate shared investments (such as information security and compliance), and define meaningful metrics to hold stakeholders accountable for performance of social media and social application investments. On Social Media Governance you”ll find a database of over 100 actual corporate social media policies that make great examples of SM policies and what they’re about.

]]> http://freesourcing.org/social-media-governance/feed 0 http://freesourcing.org/creative-commons http://freesourcing.org/creative-commons#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:22:34 +0000 admin http://freesourcing.org/?p=682 Service: Free Search Engine and Licensing Tool Website: http://creativecommons.org/ Freesource Notes: Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. Creative Commons provides free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.

]]> http://freesourcing.org/creative-commons/feed 0 http://freesourcing.org/free-advice http://freesourcing.org/free-advice#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:47:01 +0000 admin http://freesourcing.org/?p=587 Service: Free Legal Advice Website: http://www.freeadvice.com/ Freesource Notes: FreeAdvice.com seeks to provide the most useful, easy-to-understand, comprehensive and balanced legal information and insurance help to consumers and small businesses, and to help people and businesses find answers to their legal and insurance questions and solutions to their legal and insurance problems. Asking a question and getting an answer with FreeAdvice couldn’t be made easier and is entirely free.

]]> http://freesourcing.org/free-advice/feed 0 http://freesourcing.org/business-govs-permit-me-tool http://freesourcing.org/business-govs-permit-me-tool#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:50:27 +0000 admin http://freesourcing.org/?p=546 Service: Free Permit & License Research Tool Website: http://business.gov/register/licenses-and-permits/ Freesource Notes: Every business needs one or more federal, state or local licenses or permits to operate. Licenses can range from a basic operating license to very specific permits. Business.gov’s “Permit Me” tool allows you to get a listing of federal, state and local permits, licenses, and registrations you’ll need to run a business. Business.gov’s resource caters to US businesses and is entirely free to use. You can also follow them on twitter @BusinessDotGov

]]> http://freesourcing.org/business-govs-permit-me-tool/feed 0 http://freesourcing.org/my-own-business http://freesourcing.org/my-own-business#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:44:36 +0000 admin http://freesourcing.org/?p=526 Service: Free Internet Course on Starting a Business Website: http://www.myownbusiness.org/ Freesource Notes: My Own Business, Inc. is a nonprofit organization committed to helping people succeed in business. The course is presented by successful business owners who point out the common, avoidable mistakes. This is a 16 session course including topics such as: Evaluation Business Potential, Developing a Business Plan, Licensing and Permits, Accounting and Cash flow, Expanding and Problems. The My Own Business course is great for early stage or interested entrepreneurs and is entirely free.

]]> http://freesourcing.org/my-own-business/feed 0 http://freesourcing.org/free-privacy-policy http://freesourcing.org/free-privacy-policy#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:08:22 +0000 admin http://freesourcing.org/?p=504 Service: Privacy Policy Generator Website: http://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/ Freesource Notes: Free Privacy Policy has made it so a policy can be generated within minutes. There is a long series of questions to run through and once completed a sample policy will be generated for you to review. You will have the option to download a separate text or html file containing the policy. We’ve read mixed reviews on these types of generators and Free Privacy Policy does include this disclaimer: “You understand that it is your responsibility to ensure that the privacy policy you create is complete, accurate, and meets your companies specific privacy needs. We are not liable or responsible for any privacy policies created using our services, and we give no representations or warranties, express or implied, that the privacy policies created using our service are complete, accurate or free from errors or omissions.”

]]> http://freesourcing.org/free-privacy-policy/feed 0 http://freesourcing.org/plol http://freesourcing.org/plol#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:30:30 +0000 admin http://freesourcing.org/?p=440 Service: Free Law Library Website: http://www.plol.org/ Freesource Notes: Plol – The Public Library of Law, has made searching through the law easy as searching through the web. Plol has everything from legal forms, regulations and statues to constitutions and court rules. The plol engine is powered by Fastcase, a leading legal research system for professionals, and is entirely free to use.

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