2 posts tagged “tuesday web tour”
Todays links include online training for small business owners, and learning more about today’s web technology, such as Web 2.0 and RSS. I hope you find something to entertain, enlighten, encourage, or empower you and your business. Happy surfing!
SBDC Online Training: Free online business courses from the South-West Texas Border Small Business Development Center (SBDC). From starting your business to managing your finances, they offer many quick beginner courses. Examples of available courses: Advertising, Building Your Brand, Valuing a Business, Balance Sheets, and Legal Structures.
RSS: Really Simple Syndication provides a method for you to get the headlines, or even the full text, of all new content from your favorite sites and blogs. This web site explains RSS in a non-technical format, with links to resources to get you started using the many feeds available on the web.
What Is Web 2.0: by Tim O’Reilly. “This article is an attempt to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0.”
Better Invoices for Better Business: by Kevin Potts. Invoices that obfuscate information, incorrectly state terms or arrive incomplete can be a massive headache for all parties. Strategic timing and attractive presentation are also important, as they can help “soften the blow” by making your invoice seem less like a stale demand for money and more like a friendly letter.
UC Berkeley web casts: Listen to free lectures from Biology through Sociology from UC Berkeley. Subscribe to your favorite course and get the latest lectures delivered to your podcast software. If you love to learn, here’s higher education at no cost.
Creating Passionate Users: Who’d You Make Smile Today? Going beyond the text-book formula of customer satisfaction and actually making them smile.
Free Fonts: Download hundreds of open-source font styles for free.
Texas Gas Prices: Monitor and submit gas prices in your area. Great resource to find the cheapest gas, and to avoid the gougers. Free.
LibraryThing: Create and maintain your own library catalog. Easy to use, easy to search, easy to share. Great for all bibliophiles. Free.
Texas Best Cowboy Culture: Artists, poets, real cowboys and more. All the best people, places, and things in Texas.
Web 2.0 Design Style Guide: Describes various common graphic design elements in modern web design style and attempts to explain why it works,as well as how, when and where to use, and not use, these design styles
That’s it for today’s web tour. I hope you find something to entertain, enlighten, encourage, or empower you and your business. Happy surfing!
