NEWS & VIEWS FEATURE - The Internet can be a powerful force in enhancing the work of nonprofit organizations. As the number of nonprofits getting online continues to grow, many for-profit companies have seized the opportunity to design Web-based tools specifically for the nonprofit market. This article by Monica Williams from the Benton Foundation site provides information and links to some of these sources.
Using .coms to Enhance Your .org
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NEWS & VIEWS FEATURE - Searching the web can be a daunting task, and sometimes overwhelming when over a million returns come from your keyword search, and you don't have time to learn the tricks and techniques that can help. Well, the University of South Carolina Beaufort Library brings you Bare Bones 101, A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web. Ellen Chamberlain, Head Librarian, created this course which may seem long with 20 chapters, but they are a quick read and really helpful. And, if that's too much, just read Chapter 7.
Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web
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Addresses.Com - Billed as the largest directory of email addresses, Addresses.com offers direct links to other major email address directories as well as meta email directory search engines, ratings of major directories and links to hundreds of specialized email addresses for universities, government agencies and branches, and international directories by country.
http://www.addresses.com/

Ask A Librarian - An online reference service with the Library of Congress. Includes links to librarians in 20 of the General, International and Special Format areas. Included also are links to other Library of Congress services. Best Bet.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/

AT&T AnyWho Info - Various directories to find people and businesses including reverse lookup, toll-free numbers and maps.
http://www.anywho.com

Awesome Library - Awesome Library organizes the Web with 16,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. The Awesome Library provides only resources that have been reviewed and found to be of high quality for their users. Special sections for teachers, kids, teens, parents librarians or community. Also includes a Hot Topics area, and browsing ability in several languages. The site focuses on child-safe links, those useful to teachers, sources of original materials, and current items.Best Bet.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

Bartleby.Com - Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and everyone with unlimited access to information on the web, free of charge. There are indexes available by Author, Subject and Title. Featured publications include: the Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, American Heritage Dictionary, Gray's Anatomy, King James Bible, Roget's Thesaurus, Strunks Elements of Style, World Factbook and more. Best Bet.
http://www.bartleby.com/

Best Information on the Net - From the O'Keefe Library of St. Ambrose University, there are topic links to resources of interest to university students and faculty. Very well designed. Best Bet.
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/

Britannica.com - Britannica.com includes the complete, updated Encyclopædia Britannica. Also, selected articles from more than 70 of the world's top magazines--including Newsweek, Discover, and The Economist--provide additional feature and current-events coverage. Our guide to the Web's best sites includes more than 125,000 sites, and you can also search the text of more than 100 million Web pages to find more information. All databases can be accessed through a single search. World and U.S. news is from the editors of washingtonpost.com is.
http://www.britannica.com

CensusScope - The Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) is a university-based organization that creates demographic media, such as user guides, web sites, and hands-on classroom computer materials that make U.S. census data accessible to educators, policymakers, and citizens. Includes state and metro-area data from 2000 and 1990 census. Also, trend charts for Ancestry & Ethnicity, Educational Attainment and Enrollment, Employment, Occupation, and Industry, Migration & Immigration, and Housing Characteristics
http://www.censusscope.org/index.html

CTC Sustainability Toolkit
http://www.americaconnects.net/research/LTC_ToolKit/index.shtml

ebrary - Freely view, browse and search books and other high-value documents from leading publishers. Find exactly what you want by searching the full text or searching by author, publisher, title or subject. Open books using free InfoTools software you download to your compuer, then page through and explore them. Increase your understanding and knowledge by linking from any word to related information. You can also purchase only what you need by paying a small copying or printing fee. It's like making photocopies, but far more convenient. Buy books directly from several online booksellers. Best Bet.
http://learningnetwork.ebrary.com/

Find Articles.Com - FindArticles.com is an archive of published articles you can search for free. It contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals. You will find articles on a range of topics, including business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more. Each of the hundreds of thousands of articles in FindArticles can be read in its entirety and printed at no cost. Best Bet.

http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml

Find Sounds - FindSounds.com is a Web search engine for finding sound effects and sample sounds on the Web. Provides advanced features, yet is simple and easy to use, and suitable for all ages. Note to parents: audio files containing obscenities are filtered out so this site is safe for children. More than searching text labels, FindSounds.com allows you to search for audio files based on how they sound. You can even create your own sounds and use them to find similar sounds on the Web.
http://www.findsounds.com/

Free Lunch From Economy.Com. Search a very large data library collection for various economic and financial data, charts and other information. Topics includes: industry, demographics, flow of funds, prices, international trade etc. You might have to sign in for free at first, but a versatile source of benchmarking and valuable background data.
http://www.economy.com/freelunch/default.asp

Free Tools for Nonprofits - Compiled and linked through helping.org in their Resources for Nonprofits section. Access and information on free email accounts, internet access, mailing lists, online chats, web hosting services, web tools and program management tools. But free sometimes comes with a price, such as site advertising and fees. However, several of these are very good resources.
http://www.helping.org/nonprofit/tools.adp

GuideStar - Search for nonprofits and 990 filings for nearly 1,000,000 organizations.
http://www.guidestar.org/controller/search.gs

i-Tools - One of the best compilations of research tools and linked sites on the net. Search Tools to find anything on the net. Language Tools to looks up words or translate them. Research Tools to find facts or theory about anything. Financial Tools to convert currency. Map Tools to see a map or get directions. Internet Tools to use networking and web tools. Great site, go there! Best Bet.
http://www.itools.com/

The Internet Archive -The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. The Internet Archive, working with Alexa Internet, has created the Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine makes it possible to surf pages stored in the Internet Archive's web archive. Best Bet.
[ FEBRUARY 2002 FEATURED SITE... more in Featured Sites Index. ]
http://www.archive.org/

InternetLawWeb.Com - A reference to Internet Law. The site includes quick access menus on the top and sides, and customized legal news webfeeds daily by subject. Topics include Legal Issues, Information Technology, E-Commerce, International Issues and much more. Site lists are available on law and law schools, reference tools, search engines, web sites and more.
http://www.internetlawweb.com/index.htm

Internet Oracle - Links to helpful tools such as search engines, people finders, E-Mail and Reverse Lookup, maps, women's resources, games, music, sports and much more Internet link and search resources.
http://www.searchgateway.com/finde.htm

Internet Public Library - The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. They provide library services to Internet users including finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing, and creating information resources; and direct assistance to individuals. They use a learn-by-doing approach to train information professionals and students to work in an increasingly digital environment and to develop technology and best practices for providing library services via the Internet, including digital reference service and collection management.
For example, the IPL books collections includes over 20,000 titles, reprinted in total, and searched by author, title or the Dewey Decimil System. You can also link to nearly every newspaper with online access in the world, hundreds of journals and other media sources.
There is also a special KIDS SPACE and TEEN SPACE, with information links specifically identified for these groups, including a number of special projects. There are a dozen subject area collections and several special collections.
JUST A GREAT SITE TO VISIT AND USE
[ NOVEMBER 2001 FEATURED SITE... more in Featured Sites Index. ]
http://www.ipl.org/

Jargon Files - The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
http://www.emcf.org/pub/jargon/index.htm

A Journalist's Guide to the Internet - Prepared by a University of Maryland Journalism Professor, the categories lead to an annotated directory in the various topic areas. These include: online newspapers, politics, government, business, courts more.
http://reporter.umd.edu/

Librarian's Index to the Internet - a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 7,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. It's meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources. They also have a Current Awareness Service - Subscribe (free) to LII New This Week - a weekly mailing of the top 20 resources added to the Librarians' Index to the Internet.
http://lii.org/

Lorem Ipsum - Text Generator - Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc. You can generate paragraphs, bulleted lists, words or bytes.
http://www.lipsum.com/

Measure 4 Measure - A collection of interactive sites on the Web that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc. In other words, they do the work for you. Best Bet.
http://www.wolinskyweb.com/measure.htm

Mid-York Library System Web Catalog - Links to the Web catalog and other electronic resources maintained by Mid-York Library System, serving the Mohawk Valley and other areas of Central New York State. You need a Library Card for the best stuff.
http://www.midyork.org

Moreover - Billed as the worlds largest collection of web feeds. With proprietary software that spiders more than 1,500 editorial sources, they provide 'webfeeds' of headline links in more than 300 categories. All the webfeeds displayed on our news portal are also available free off the site to webmasters - in formats such as HTML frames, email, and XML. This includes business, finance, regional, science, sports, technology and more. Best Bet.
http://w.moreover.com/

MyWorkTools.Com - A commercial site with a large amount of free materials, in addition to paid items. MyWorkTools.com is an employee (E2E) knowledge exchange that enables employees to find business tools to complete specific business tasks. Topic areas include: board of directors, customer service, engineering, human resources, marketing, operations, technical support, training and more.
http://www.myworktools.com/

Network for Good - Nonprofit Resources - Network for Good is an e-philanthropy site where individuals can donate, volunteer and speak out on the issues they care about. The organization's goal is to connect people to charities via the Internet — using the virtual world to deliver real resources to nonprofits and communities. In addition to the Nonprofit Resources found here, we developed a Web site for citizens to donate, volunteer, and speak out on issues they care about. Your organization can use the Network for Good Nonprofit Resources to receive these online donations, recruit volunteers, and encourage online advocacy. Best Bet.
http://www.networkforgood.org/npo/

NPower Network Tools and Resources
http://www.npower.org/tools/index.htm

Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/

NYFA Source: A National Database - NYFA Source is the most extensive national database of awards, services, and publications for artists of all disciplines. Artists, arts organizations, and the general public can access information on over 2,600 arts organizations, 2,700 award programs, 2,100 service programs, and 700 publications for individual artists nationwide, with more programs added every day.\
http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_source.asp?id=47&fid=1

Oneida County (NY) Convention and Visitors Bureau
http://www.oneidacountycvb.com/index.html

One Look Dictionary - Think of this web site as a search engine for words: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 4 million words in more than 700 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine.
http://www.onelook.com/

refdesk.com - Not just another search engine. The best equivilent is a good Library Reference Desk. Very comprehensive and easy to use site map and search feature. A good place to start for quick facts and figures. Best Bet.
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html

RefTools - reftools.com was created because common search engines and Internet guide sites only point visitors to a list of unqualified sites. reftools.com attempts to do better than that by gathering all of the most valuable interactive forms and calculators in one place, organized in a standard topic hierarchy. Calculators are some of the more interesting links, but only just the beginning of some intersting targeted search features. Visitors to the site can create their own custom pages filled with the tools they most frequently access.
http://www.reftools.com/

Reverse Phone Directory - Find a Person's Name and Street Address from a Telephone Number by Searching Multiple Reverse Phone Directories and Look up any Phone Number to Find a Person's Name and Street Address and see who lives there!
http://www.reversephonedirectory.com/

Scholes Library: Electronic Reference Desk – "Ready Reference" sources such as dictionaries, electronic databases, publications, government information, historical references, scientific data, news and weather and so forth. A giant online library reference desk.
http://scholes.alfred.edu/Ref.html

Search 22 - A search tool that helps you find some of the greatest search services on the Web. Search-22 is a directory of Internet searches and more... With one user-friendly form you can start your searches directly from one spot. If you cannot find what you are looking for with one click, come back to Search-22 and try another search.
http://www.search-22.com/reference.html

Switchboard - Extremely useful and well-linked by others. Find people, email, maps, directions, businesses, web sites and more. A commercial site but worth using for research purposes. Best Bet.
http://www.switchboard.com

Textalyzer - Online text analysis tool, for straight test or web sites.
http://textalyser.net/

Tools for Nonprofit Mailers - A selection of the materials and information most commonly requested from the Alliance has been posted online for your convenience by the Alliance for Nonprofit Mailers. This includes the Basics of Nonprofit Mail.
http://www.nonprofitmailers.org/tools.html

Training and Technical Assistance Materials - The Gill Foundation
http://www.gillfoundation.org/tata_resources/

Virtual Private Libary - A Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for monitoring directory resources and sites on the Internet. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis for all forms of Internet directories. The goal of this site is to be the Internet's Directory of Directories! The Virtual Private Library™ creates private libraries powered by Subject Tracer Bots™ on various subjects and developed exclusively by Bot Pioneer and Guru Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. The Virtual Private Library™ is also available for custom subjects created for personal, professional and corporate utilization through the Internet or virtual private networks.Best Bet.
http://www.virtualprivatelibrary.com/

Virtual Reference Shelf - Selected Web resources compiled by the Library of Congress. Twenty-eight topic areas of great reference sites. Best Bet.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html

W3 Search Engines - A large collection of web search engines and catalogs from around the globe, including all the majors and more. Help not just with list- and spider-based services, but also help with finding people, software, publications, educational institutions, and other things.Best Bet.
http://cui.unige.ch/meta-index.html

Web Searching - Hints on finding more on the web. The 'visible' vs. the 'invisible' web.
http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/computerlab/tutorials/web/searching.html

Whatsinit - Whatisinit.com is one of the few places on the web where you can find out about all the different kinds chemicals and substances that are put into to your food and drink everyday. At this site we will explain all those hard to read and understand chemicals that are listed as ingredients in your product of choice and provide you with the most up to date information about them..
http://www.whatisinit.com/frames/frames/whatisinit_new.htm

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