Links
Below are helpful and useful links. Please continue to check back as we will be adding new links. If you know of a helpful website, please send the URL to WebAd@shopgrovecity.com.
Business Services & Tools
http://www.sbdcgannon.org - The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) program provides no-cost confidential consulting and low cost training in proven management fundamentals helping small business owners and potential entrepreneurs make sound decisions for the successful operation of their business. Call the Chamber for a referal or contact information.
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http://www.yetz.com - A search engine site that provides quick and easy links to things such as patents, home business opportunities, new business opportunities, job listings, and much more.
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http://surveymonkey.com - A professional survey company that lets you design, collect responses, and analyze results for free with basic membership. You can ask up to 10 questions and get up to 100 responses for free. Professional subscription is only $19.95/month and you can get so much more out of a survey with this upgrade.
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http://www.ninesigma.com - Offers innovation sourcing solutions by pairing clients' innovation needs with individual, academic, and corporate solution providers.
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http://eurekamed.com - Eureka Medical is a resource for busy medical professionals and talented independent inventors with great ideas for medical devices and healthcare products, but limited time and resources to pursue them.
E-Commerce
http://www.ebay.com - Almost everyone has heard about eBay. It is an on-line auction site where you can pretty much buy or sell anything. You can even set up your own on-line store and sell the very same products that you sell in your actual store.
http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org - This site offers free advertisements, classifieds or job postings. They also have more than 5 billion page views per month, so why not post something for free and see if you get any responses.
http://www.jpworld.com - Offering E-commerce solutions. Establish your business on-line presence with a shopping cart and a Web Hosting Plan.
Education
http://ocw.mit.edu - This is a free and open educational resource provided by one of the top universities in the county, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is available to anyone who wants to learn more about the 35 topics they offer, with their full curriculum being added by 2008. And did I mention that it is FREE.
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http://www.ocwconsortium.org - Online curriculum from leading universities from accross the globe.
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http://www.entrepreneur.com - This site offer a wealth of information and education for any business owner or manager.
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Research & Development
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http://www.innocentive.com - InnoCentive is an exciting web-based community matching top scientists to relevant R&D challenges facing leading companies from around the globe. They provide a powerful online forum enabling major companies to reward scientific innovation through financial incentives.
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Social & Business Networking
http://www.43things.com - A great site to post your 43 goals in life and to connect to other members.
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http://www.technorati.com - This site tracks over 72 million blogs. It gives you a large database to search nearly any blog subject matter that you can come up with.
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http://www.youtube.com - A site where you can view video clips from thousands of various people and you can even post your own clip.
http://www.takingitglobal.org - An online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in the local and global communities. It's the world's most popular online community for young people interested in making a difference, with hundreds of thousands of unique visitors each month.
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http://www.ixc.com - The InnovationXchange (IXC) is a commercially neutral, not-for-profit, global knowledge network which delivers the ground breaking IXC Intermediary Service to business and research - a new way to find the connections you need.
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http://www.yourencore.com - YourEncore is a service provider connecting the technology and product development opportunities of member companies with world class talented individuals - experts in the chosen field who are ready to apply years of experience and talent from a lifetime of creative problem solving.
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http://www.ebizitpa.org - They provide education and training programs in e-business and advanced information technology processes.
Software
http://openoffice.org - OpenOffice.org provides a free multi-platform office productivity suite that is compatible with Microsoft Office. In fact, it is almost exactly the same as Microsoft Office. Why pay hundreds of dollars for the same software that OpenOffice.org provides for free?
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http://www.download.com - This is a great site to download virtually any software that is on the market today. Much of the software is free or you can try a demo version and purchase it later.
Misc.
http://en.wikipedia.org - This is a site that offers free encyclopedia articles. They have over 1,719,000 that you can view and even edit yourself.
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http://wikinomics.com - Based on a $9 million research project led by bestselling author Don Tapscott, Wikinomics shows how the masses of people can participate in the economy like never before. They are creating TV news stories, sequencing the human genome, remixing their favorite music, designing software, finding a cure for disease, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, and even building motorcycles.
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http://www.skype.com - This is a site that provides free online telephone calling services such as conference calling for up to nine people and video calls.
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http://slashdot.org - An online discussion forum where people post articles and comments and a variety of different things that are happening in the world today.
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http://www.angieslist.com - This is a website where customers can post comments about home service contractors that they have used.
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http://www.scroogle.org - A search engine that uses the google search engine but doesn't use cookies, doesn't keep track of search terms, and access logs are deleted every 48 hours.
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http://www.dictionary.com - An online dictionary
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Government