FamilyZip - free printables

clipped from www.familyzip.com The Best of Everything Family Friendly Shared by Real People clipped from www.familyzip.com Read, save, and even comment on great ideas on activities, family fun, travel, parenting, dining out, & more. By real people just like you!

The Teachers' Guide - free printables

clipped from www.theteachersguide.com Some of these sites are turning to membership fees. However, they still do have some free resources.

Starfall - downloadd free printables for teachers and parents

clipped from www.starfall.com These downloads may be reproduced by individual teachers or parents for noncommercial use in their classroom or home. Any other reproduction is not allowed without written permission from the publisher.

Open e-LMS - open source learning management system for business

Thanks to Facebook friend Jerry Cobbs for the tip!

clipped from www.openelms.org Free Open Source e-learning Learning Management System for Business Open e-LMS is the first open source Learning Management System designed for business by business. The interface is uncluttered and easy to use, but also very powerful. The LMS is distributed freely under the GNU Open Source Licence which places no restrictions on its reuse and application. Open Elms also provides a Content Management System which enables the creation of professional e-learning content from scratch. This is provided with a course library, both of which can be freely used within your immediate organization.

Forvo - words of the world pronounced

clipped from forvo.com Forvo is the place where you´ll find words pronounced in their original languages. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can also help others recording your pronunciations in your own language.

PostSecret

Some are funny. Some are heartwarming. Some are sad. Some are not suitable for children or people with weak bladders ...

clipped from postsecret.blogspot.com PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

Pew Internet - The Future of the Internet

If you're not familiar with the Pew Internet & American Life Project, dig in. The site is packed with interesting research. All free!

clipped from www.pewinternet.org A wide-ranging survey of technology leaders, scholars, industry officials, and analysts finds that most internet experts expect attacks on the network infrastructure in the coming decade as the internet becomes more embedded in everyday and commercial life. They believe the dawning of the blog era will bring radical change to the news and publishing industry and they think the internet will have the least impact on religious institutions.

Facebook app: Friend Wheel

The image above was created by the Facebook Friend Wheel, a free Facebook application that sorts through all your friends and analyzes them by connection. Very cool. @jomcleay uses a Friend Wheel image as the background for her Twitter page. Intrigued, I asked what it was and what software created it. She kindly replied and gave me a great new social connectivity analysis tool. Thanks!

Twixenate - Twitter profile picture editor

Twitter Venn

"Enter two or three search terms separated by commas and press the 'Search' button or type Enter/Return. After the data is retrieved a Venn Diagram is shown which illustrates the rate of tweets containing the search terms in the various combinations. See the Neoformix post on Twitter Venn for more details."

Another interesting Twitter analysis tool. Fascinating ...

Free Twitter Buttons - with animated GIFs

Thanks for the tip @monarchlibrary!

clipped from siahdesign.com A great way to draw more attention to your Twitter feed and to get more people following your Twitter is by posting a “Follow Me On Twitter” button right by the feed.  I took the time to make up some free graphics for anyone that would like to use them. I supplied every version with a GIF with transparent background and a PNG with white background. You can download the graphics by right clicking the image and downloading the link.  Just place the image on your site and link to your Twitter profile. BTW, to follow me on Twitter click here.

TwtPwr - cool "follow me" buttons

Get a cool "Follow me on Twitter" button here.

clipped from twitbuttons.com

Free Kibble Kat - play the game, feed cats in animal shelters

clipped from www.freekibblekat.com Right or wrong, you win! All you have to do is click on an answer, and every day you do, we'll provide10 pieces of kibble to Animal Shelters to help feed their hungry cats.

MapSkip

clipped from www.mapskip.com It is an ancient human instinct to share our life stories with others, as the paintings and hand prints in stone-age caves show. And many of our stories are about places. Where we fell in love, had the dream vacation, took that great picture or, well, joined the rebellion. And then there are the many other places that anchor our lives - where we live, eat, work and have fun. Join the MapSkip community in exploring the world through shared stories and pictures about all the places in our lives.

BookCrossing - share your unused books

clipped from bookcrossing.com Welcome to BookCrossing, where 734,466 people in over 130 countries come to share their passion for books with the world. Where books take on a life of their own. How? It's easy. BookCrossing is earth-friendly, and gives you a way to share your books, clear your shelves, and conserve precious resources at the same time. Through our own unique method of recycling reads, BookCrossers give life to books. A book registered on BookCrossing is ready for adventure. Leave it on a park bench, a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at the gym -- anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate, and we never know where our books might travel. Track the book's journey around the world as it is passed on from person to person.