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This month Simon Whaley shows us the value of media packs, Ten Top Tips covers reader’s letters, plus there are success stories and ideas to inspire.
As Simon has provided you with lots of sites to check out this month I thought I’d simply highlight a website that can help your creativity flow by providing inspiration, one to keep and organise the other sites you like – you’ll see what I mean – and one that will give you the feel-good factor of saving the planet!
www.earthcam.com
Inspiration can be found everywhere and looking at other people or places can provide us with a cornucopia of ideas. I was fascinated by the live webcam feeds, especially the New York Times Square feeds, on this site and simply looking at people walking past, minding their own business, made me think of all kinds of ideas – where they were going, who they were with, what they had just been doing...
www.delicious.com/help/learn
I love this site as I am always flicking around the internet finding sites I like and trying to organise my bookmarks! I’ll let them explain further, “Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. It also means that we can show you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, our search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks from people like you.”
www.ecosia.org/
This should give you the warm glow of doing some good whilst fulfilling another essential need – research! You can download this search engine for free and use it to do all the same searches you would using Google, for example. In fact it has some little features that make it better than Google i.e. the open page in new tab icon at the end of each search term You can also use all the normal search functions such as Google maps, images etc. In their words “Ecosia is an independent, non-profit website. At least 80% of our search income goes to a rainforest protection programme run by WWF, which uses this money for the sustainable protection of rainforests.” I use it every day and I’m getting addicted to looking at how much rain forest I’ve saved each time I search!
Remember, if you run a website that you think may be of use to our readers, let me know. If I like it, I’ll publish a link to it giving you a free plug. What could be better than that?
