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Find out what people are thinking

at Poll Code, you can create an instant survey or poll without even signing up or registering. Give the choice of up to 30 answers and customize it easily. Then you'll get the code to paste into Facebook, your web site or your blog. Great resource at http://www.pollcode.com

Jigsaw Puzzles

Like to work jigsaw puzzles? This site provides tons of online puzzles to solve, plus new ones added every month. Great to work on while watching TV. More fun than solitare.
It's at Jigzone.com

Add forms to your web site, blog and e-mail

A free website where you can create forms of all kinds to gather information from customers, sign up for programs, collect dues, etc. You can even integrate PayPal and other payment options. The Premium version is only $9.95 per month, but the free version is powerful. http://www.jotform.com

Get Free Widgets For Your Web or Blog!

There are hundreds of free widgets (small programs) that can be added to your website or blog at http://www.widgetbox.com
From the blog - http://www.SurfaceCoaching.com

Want to be famous?

Unusual promotional tool — Lamar Morgan

Jones Soda (jonessoda.com), a soft drink company, will place your picture on the front of any of its many brands of soda. Send them a JPEG photo you would like to use. It will be turned to black & white. Jones Soda needs only a few weeks to process your order. Costs are around $30 for 12 bottles. Having a picture on a REAL bottle of soda can be an amazing promotional tool. The bottles can be used for promoting your business. You can use them as props over-and-over again. At their Web site look at the many ways pictures on Jones Soda bottles are being used.

Answers On The Go

If you need some information such as movie showtimes or fast food nutritional data, but you're not near a computer, you can call 800-2chacha (800-224-2242) on your cell phone and ask your question. The question is sent to one of chacha.com guides who locates the information and answers you by text message a few minutes later. There is no charge for this service and it works with most cell carriers. From my blog at http://www.surfacecoaching.com

Free Software Every Day!

Every day this site offers licensed software you'd have to buy otherwise, for free!
You have to get the program that day, otherwise you pay for it. Check it daily for some great deals.
It's at http://www.giveawayoftheday.com
More resources on my blog at http://www.surfacecoaching.com

Listen While You Work

You can listen to a radio station that you create. Tell it your favorite artists and it'll play those favorites on the computer. It's at http://www.pandora.com Enjoy....
(From the blog: http://Surfacecoaching.com)

Find out who's calling you

Want to know who's calling when your phone says "private call" or no caller ID. You can use TrapCall to know who it is. This site also links you to spoof call where you can put in any number or ID when you call someone else. Both offer Free Trials. http://www.trapcall.com/

From my Blog: Surfacecoaching.com

Meeting Wave

Meeting Wave is a free online tool to help you meet people offline. You post who you want to meet and which locale and the service matches you up with others in your area that want to meet with you in person. Sounds like a dating service for businesspeople. Great for networking and finding clients. I haven't tried it yet but worth a look at http://www.meetingwave.com

Great Name Search

Naming site — Dale Collie

Trying to find a great name? Looking for synonyms for your keywords? Want rhyming words? Go to igor.com and enter one of your keywords. You’ll be impressed with Doctor Cube’s Linguistic Mashup.

Add Your Face To ZoomInfo.com

Be sure and “Put Your Face On” a site called ZoomInfo.com (zoominfo.com).

Why should you care about what ZoomInfo says about you? Because the paid versions of this site (such as PowerSearch and ZoomExec) allow prospect search by zip code radius, job title, company name and zillions of other criteria. Who uses sophisticated tools like this? Human resource departments, sales directors, top executives, recruiters, meeting planners, speaker agencies and more.

When we say, “Put Your Face On,” we mean it literally. You can upload your photo, but you also can correct inaccurate information about you, add missing information and untangle the profiles of other "John Jones’s" that have gotten entwined with yours. You’ll need to establish that you are you (after all, you don’t want just anyone editing your profile), but that won’t take long.

Meridith Levinson wrote in CIO Magazine that ZoomInfo is one of the two sites every job seeker should join. Not just job seekers. Gig seekers, too.

Send Mail Locally Anywhere in the World

BlueMailCentral (bluemailcentral.com) lets you send paper mail electronically from within any application to recipients anywhere in the world.

Simply create a letter on your PC (Mac support is coming soon) and select the BlueMailCentral printer instead of your own. The letter is printed in the country the recipient lives in on recycled paper; a customizable preface page is automatically created with the address positioned correctly. The letter is then inserted into a large-window envelope and presented to the local postal service on the same day. For most countries, delivery is within two or three days; pricing is by the country, including VAT, stamps, envelopes and paper.

Download your workouts

You can download yoga, Pilates, Cardio and strength training videos for free at exercisetv.tv. More than 80 to choose from you could do a different workout every day for almost three months without ever going to a gym. Click here.

Fix your technical problem!

No-cost computer support site — Linda Talley

If your computer breaks down on the weekend, techies give no-charge advice. They will also tell you if they can’t help and to take it to someone else. fixya.com

Quick answers from a librarian

MassAnswers is an innovative service that lets you ask questions and get answers, in real time, right here on the Internet, from reference staff at some of the best libraries across Massachusetts and the nation. This system combines the immediacy of the telephone and the preciseness of written e-mail with the ability to "look over" the librarian's shoulder and see what he or she sees on screen.

Once you submit a question at the right side of this screen, it will be picked up by a Massachusetts Librarian from one of the MassAnswers participating libraries. Click here and check it out.

Find out who's calling you.

Want to know who's calling when your phone says "private call" or no caller ID. You can use TrapCall to know who it is. This site also links you to spoof call where you can put in any number or ID when you call someone else. Both offer Free Trials. http://www.trapcall.com/

Ever think about doing a webinar?

You can conduct an online meeting with up to 20 people for free at http://www.dimdim.com
Everyone can see your screen, your PowerPoint or a web site. Free trial on this program also!

Free Sign Up and Contact Form

At this site you can sign up for free contact software to paste into your web site or blog so that others can send you information in form format. Makes it easy for others to register or contact you without complicated form creation software. The wizard makes it simple.
http://www.mycontactform.com

Free Software Every Day!

Every day this site offers licensed software you'd have to buy otherwise, for free!
You have to get the program that day, otherwise you pay for it. Check it daily for some great deals.
It's at http://www.giveawayoftheday.com

Local Newspaper Site

Found a great site, where you drag your mouse over a map and click on a city. It will show you the local newspaper's front page. Even small towns work. It's called Newseum. Try it at

newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash

Double click and the page gets bigger.

Free Program Recommendation from a Friend

Uninstaller help — Dale Collie

A speaker friend recently posted this on SpeakerNetNews. Tired of left-over files fouling up the works after you uninstall programs? Check out this uninstaller that will help get rid of the dregs and keep your computer running smoothly revouninstaller.com — Price: nothing. [Note: for Windows]

Professional Looking CD's

I know a lot of my professional speaker friends and Coaches are subscribed to this blog. Check out http://www.kunaki.com. Its a site where you can upload audio or DVD and have it packaged in a professional looking full cover package wrapped in celophane. They will also drop ship for you!

Music the way you like it

Want to work with music in the background? You tell this site who you like to listen to and it will create a whole radio station based on music that you like. For fun I typed in Herb Albert (Tried to give it a challenge) and now I'm listening to a complete radio station playing Herb Albert type music. Check it out, it's free at Pandora.com