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Vovici Provides Enterprise Feedback Management

Stan Shinn — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:07:17 +0000

There are many low-end online survey software, but many are cheesy and lack the professionalism and high-end features needed by Fortune 500 companies. Vovici goes beyond simple survey forms to gather feedback geared to deliver “actionable insights.”

Vovici’s provides an award-winning survey solution for creating, conducting and analyzing online surveys, all hosted in a secure environment. They provided professionally-written survey templates and sample questionnaires. You can brand the survey with your own logo and images — a must for corporate deployment.

Advanced features include the ability to pass data into surveys without requiring respondents to reenter information you already know, and defining and assigning role-based permissions. You can also schedule complete email campaigns (invitation, reminder, follow-up and thank-you) and track survey progress.

Visit www.vovici.com to learn more.

Inconsolata: Nice Monotype Font

Stan Shinn — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:11:48 +0000

Need a fixed-width font for full screen text editors or the like?

Inconsolata is a monospace font, designed for code listings and the like, in print. There are a great many “programmer fonts,” designed primarily for use on the screen, but in most cases do not have the attention to detail for high resolution rendering.

Download Inconsolata

Ipipi Text Message Service

Stan Shinn — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:07:57 +0000

Ipipi is a web based service that allows you to send sms text messages to anybody with a cell phone.

What makes Ipipi different is it allows you to send and receive SMS from a computer OR from any mobile phone. With over 6 years in business, 400,000 users and serving Global 1000 corporate clients it caters to international text messaging needs. Learn more at Ipipi.com

Use Taskbin.com For Group Tasks Without Deadlines

Stan Shinn — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:02:35 +0000

This new Web 2.0 app shows promise. Taskbin is a collaboration tool that allows you to share and manage to-do lists among groups. You can flag tasks in order of urgency to prioritize and write notes for yourself or share them with group members.

Unlike other project management tools, TaskBin doesn’t force you to enter deadlines. It’s a simple list manager that gives an unlimited amount of users a lot of flexibility for getting things done.

Check it out at Taskbin.com

AdmissionsEssays.com

Stan Shinn — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:01:30 +0000

I have a few friends who recently entered MBA programs. Personal essays that most college or graduate applicants must fill out can be a challenge for many people — you want to look your best on your application of course. A service called AdmissionsEssays provides an profession essay and personal statement development service on the Web. They can help craft memorable, striking, and effective personal statements and application essays to help you get into the school of your choice.

Unlike competing sites, AdmissionsEssays cites “Ivy-League educated editors and writers” on their staff who offer critique and proof-reading services. This service was featured in the Los Angeles Times, Business 2.0, and Yale Daily News.

CouponChief.com for Computer Deals and Specials

Stan Shinn — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:50:41 +0000

Looking for a great deal on computers or electronics? Rather than scan your local paper weekly for special deals and coupons, you can use the CouponChief.com service. They list coupons and other special deals from many vendors, including Best Buy, Dell, and HP.

A glance at their site listed specials such as “$200 Off” and “15% Off” a variety of products. Definitely on par with (or better than) many specials you see in the paper.

Preplogic Certification Training

Stan Shinn — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:55:32 +0000

Are you an IT employee wanting to improve your career track by getting certified?

Preplogic helps IT professionals and students worldwide learn new skills and enhance their careers with fast and affordable certification training.

The Preplogic service offers a wide variety of training and test preparation options. They offer free audio training samples, web based video training, and free demos of theiir practice exams — unlike many competitors you can try before you buy and know what you’re getting in advance.

Certification training and exam preparations are available for a wide range of topics including Microsoft certification training, CompTIA, Cisco, Oracle, and many others.

Read more about this service at http://www.preplogic.com

Head For The Top

Stan Shinn — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:14:39 +0000

And now for something completely different.

www.headforthetop.com is a new concept — a web site has been launched which puts a whole new angle on advertisement web sites. The ads actually compete for the prime spot on the page, right in front of the viewers eyes by playing Rock, Paper and Scissors.

Text or Image based adverts can be placed on the site, and each is placed in a box. Each advert also has a service or product description, and a link. Free boxes which just contain text can also be added which compete with the advertisements. Each box is assigned (user choice) either rock, paper or scissors. The advertisements are then launched from the bottom of the screen, and head for the top, hence the sites name. When their progress is blocked by another box, they play rock paper or scissors. The winner gets to proceed. And the looser gets relaunched if its an advertisement, or is deleted if its a free box. Its a novel idea designed to attract interest to the pixel advertising style of website. The fact that the casual user is able to play against the adverts is the clincher, because this focuses the interest on the advertisements which on most sites would be ignored. Realising the uniqueness of the idea, the designer has had the idea patented. At the moment there is a one off fee, based on size, which buys you an Advertisement lasting a year or more.

Astromart — The Astronomer’s Telescope Portal

Stan Shinn — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:46:34 +0000

Amateur astronomer who wants to learn more by socializing with other astronomers and finding the best used and new equipment? Astromart is a great resource, providing digital camera reviews, astronomy news, classified ads and telescope reviews. You can place astronomy ads, read the latest news articles and check out the current reviews of newest telescopes and equipment.

Their discussion forums are quite active — they had 1,200 new forum posts in the last week. Other features include product reviews, links, RSS news feeds, a calendar of events, auctions for used calendar equipment, and member profiles for registered users.

Learn more at http://www.Astromart.com.

Google add Presentations Feature to Google Docs

Stan Shinn — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:41:59 +0000

Google finally added Presentations feature to their Google Docs web-based office suite. You can c Create a whole new slideshow in Presentations or upload an existing PowerPoint file (my recommendation) to get started. Collaboration for remote meeting is especially nice given they have chat built right into the sidebar.