Monday, July 7, 2008

VendorServe.com is a free service that matches businesses with qualified, pre-screened Web Designers, Online Marketing Specialists and IT Professional

What Company Is Offering:

VendorServe.com is a free service that matches businesses with qualified, pre-screened Web Designers, Online Marketing Specialists and IT Professionals in over 40 service categories.

How It Works:

Using VendorServe.com's Leads Express service, subscribing Web and IT service providers receive timely, highly-targeted leads from potential business customers who are actively looking to purchase Web and IT related services, ranging from Website Design, Ecommerce, Database Development, Search Engine Marketing, Programming, Software and more.Unlike other lead services, through Leads Express subscribing professionals pay a flat monthly fee for unlimited leads, rather than having to pay per lead, making it risk-free for Web and IT professionals to subscribe to the service without having to worry about monthly advertising and customer acquisition costs.

Through VendorServe.com's Leads Express, new leads are verified and pre-qualified by experienced former industry Project Managers and include the complete details of the buyer's project specifications and full contact information. With quick turn-around and provisioning, the 'hot lead' arrives in a member subscriber's in-box within hours of the requested quote, enabling members to respond with competitive offers in a timely manner.

More at:www.VendorServe.com

Zrc2.com is THE free online networking community and Professional Services hub for IT & Telecoms professionals

What Company Is Offering:
Zrc2.com is THE free online networking community and Professional Services hub for IT & Telecoms professionals.

How It Works:

At Zrc2.com they not only provide a highly developed user interface offering practical functionality and a pleasant user experience, but they also offer a suite of tools which allow you to present and promote yourself in a manner of different ways, on both a professional and on a social level. Their profile page allows you to interact with other site members via a comments feed, with which users are able to leave general comments, but also, every member profile comes complete with a personal Blog and a notice board feature which is not unlike a mini “Forum”, using which, members are able to conduct their own debates and discussions. In addition to which, the profile page also includes a gallery into which it is possible to upload up to a maximum of 200 images.*

The page also includes a professional section which features easily hidden details of an individual’s skills, talents and experience, his or her work history, academic achievements and of course, their availability and contact details, dependent upon individual privacy settings.

Create and establish groups, participate in lively, topical discussion in our Forum or search for new opportunities using our powerful job search tool; you are free to choose your own individual level of participation and involvement.

Membership of Zrc2.com is absolutely FREE of charge to all of their standard members. There is no monthly payment, no fee to connect with other members using their internal mail system, “Zrc2mail” and absolutely no cost whatsoever to use any of our networking tools. It’s all free.

More at:www.Zrc2.com

Atomkeep is here to solve the problem of information redundancy

What Company Is Offering:

Atomkeep is here to solve the problem of information redundancy. Atomkeep will keep your accounts in sync on all social networks, job boards and other sites.


More at:http://www.atomkeep.com/

Polymeme helps you navigate the new networked public sphere and keep your fingers on the intellectual pulse of the blogosphere

What Company Is Offering:

Polymeme helps you navigate the new networked public sphere and keep your fingers on the intellectual pulse of the blogosphere.

Polymeme helps you discover intelligent content that lies beyond the usual echo chambers of tech news, celebrity gossip or American politics.



How It Works:

Their site uses a unique buzz-tracking approach to identify what's currently hot in 20 areas, ranging from economics to evolution, and present it to the reader along with all sources that are currently talking about it. Thus, you can track how ideas – or memes – propagate through this new emerging networked public sphere. They would consider our mission a success if they expose you to the maximum number of new ideas on every 100 news items you read!



One of their objective is to push you to discover news from areas that you may not otherwise discover, be that books & poetry or architecture & design. They try to achieve that by combining automated buzz-tracking with some light human editorial control, where it's up to their editors to choose which stories should go to the front page and which stories should appear on sectional/sub-sectional pages of Polymeme.



Those of you who would only like to track a few of their 20 areas could also customize Polymeme to meet their specific needs by going to MyPolymeme, registering, and choosing the topics you would like to follow. A unique RSS feed would be then generated based on your preferences.

More at;http://polymeme.com/

WorkflowPerfect is a FREE, all-in-one web-based business process tool that enables you to enforce your business process

What Company Is Offering:

WorkflowPerfect is a FREE, all-in-one web-based business process tool that enables you to enforce your business process, track the status of work items and collaborate work among team members through electronic form routing and the concept of workflow -- all from the convenience of your web browser.

How It Works:

WorkflowPerfect is a generic framework that is intended to be applicable to most business processes. It gives you the flexibility to set things up how you like. You can build and customize workflows for your specific business needs. See sample applications to get an idea of possible usages.
Design and customize electronic forms to collect information from team members. Forms are automatically routed to appropriate people or group based on your workflow configurations.
WorkflowPerfect lets you store and share files online. You can access your work documents, files from anywhere anytime. WorkflowPerfect helps make work more controllable. Work can be tracked easily from a beginning to an end. As a result, you gain greater overall project visibility.


More at:http://www.workflowperfect.com/

Where the Locals Eat spotlights the top 100 restaurants in each of the top 50 cities in America

What Company Is Offering:

Where the Locals Eat spotlights the top 100 restaurants in each of the top 50 cities in America. This online restaurant guide includes thousands of listings as well as succinct descriptions of favorite restaurants, new discoveries and best-kept secrets, from cheeseburgers and soul food to the finest steak houses, sushi bars and New American hot spots.

At Where The Locals Eat, they’ve assembled a hardy band of certified foodies — passionate gourmands to near-omnivores – who eat out a lot and know the difference between a restaurant special and a special restaurant. They’re adventuresome in their grazing and don’t mind trekking across town in search of the new and the different. They uncover these foodies in a variety of ways, and sometimes we weigh the ratings a bit, giving extra attention to reviewers whose palates we know to be a cut above the rest. They supplement that foodie group with their own band of finicky writers and researchers who have a fine eye for the unusual and a keen sense for what makes a great kitchen, a creative menu and a memorable dining experience. The result is their list of the top 100 very best restaurants in each of the largest 50 cities in the United States, including best-of winners in any number of dining categories.

More at:http://www.wherethelocalseat.com/

EMwomen is a revolutionary gathering and empowering of women with a passion to make a difference in the world around them

What Company Is Offering:
EMwomen is a revolutionary gathering and empowering of women with a passion to make a difference in the world around them.

They are mothers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, secretaries, IT professionals and more. Though they come from different backgrounds, professions, faiths, and cultures, the common ground they share is a desire to use their lives as catalysts of change within their homes, communities and world.
Members of EMwomen are forming EMcircles all across the nation. EMcircles are small groups of up to fifteen women who share in the passion to grow personally and professionally while uniting together in community projects within their city. EMcircles are a time of laughter, friendship and it is where the meat of EMwomen’s training, coaching and motivation takes place.

How It Works:

Each circle shares in a weekly conference call hosted by one of their nationally acclaimed speakers on topics such as financial freedom, fitness, weight-loss, business development, leadership training, family enrichment and more. As a member of EMwomen, you can tap into life-changing resources, calls, trainings and more to help you become the leader, mother and friend you were destined to be. EMwomen is not only a place to increase your personal and professionally excellence, but has become a revolutionary movement of women taking action within their communities. EMwomen are living lives of significance by giving back to the people that need it most within their communities.

More at:http://www.emwomen.com/

ThoughtBlend is an idea database in which users can submit their own ideas as well as view, rate and discuss the ideas of others

What Company Is Offering:

ThoughtBlend is an idea database in which users can submit their own ideas as well as view, rate and discuss the ideas of others. Everyone can view ideas and comments, but users must be signed in to submit, rate and discuss.

How It Works:

Users, once signed in, can rate an idea on a scale from 1 (bad idea) to 5 (great idea) by clicking one of the lightbulbs next to the idea. The rating in the RED box represents the average rating the idea has been given by all users in total, on a scale from 1 to 5.
When determining priority in a list of ideas ordered by "best" or "worst", a Total Rating is used, which is a sum of all the ratings that idea has gotten. For example, if an idea has been rated 3 times (ratingA: 2, ratingB: 5, ratingC: 1), the average rating in the red box would be 3, while it's Total Rating would be 8. Obviously the more popular an idea is and the more it's rated, the higher up it will show up on the list when sorted by "best ideas."

When returning to an idea, a user's original rating for this idea will be highlighted. Idea ratings can be changed at any time.

More at:http://www.thoughtblend.com/

With SynergyMail you have the control over your own campaigns, when you create them, when you send them

What Company Is Offering:
With SynergyMail you have the control over your own campaigns, when you create them, when you send them. At any time you can pop into your SynergyMail account to monitor the progress of your campaign efforts.

They'll keep an eye on your campaigns and give you advice on what new techniques might work well for you. You can also give them a call at any stage to throw an eye over content, get some advice on list segmentation as well as ensuring your campaigns are remaining compliant.

How it Works:

You can create your own great looking emails in-house by adding your own images, text and links to your template.
In your account you start with just one template, although you can get as many as you like. Whether you have one generic template for week to week campaigns or a template for media releases, they are easily accessible when creating a campaign. You can also swap between templates at any time without having to re-enter your content.
With WYSIWYG control over your content, you will actually see how template is shaping up in the live editor as you build it. Add text, images, links and even change the order in which your articles appear. The very moment you add your content they'll save it for you ensuring you have a ready made draft to finishing off later.
With free testing you can ensure that your campaign is perfect before it is sent. You can use your own 'from name' and email address, so the email always looks like it comes from you. You can also select any subject and which email address any replies should be go to. Once it is sent, they take care of the hard bounces and unsubscribes automatically.

More at:http://www.synergymail.com.au/

Racooda is a new and innovative community that connects people who need side jobs done

What Company Is Offering:

Racooda is a new and innovative community that connects people who need side jobs done and people with the right skills and tools to do them. Why hire a large professional company when reliable people in your area can do the same job for much less money.

How It Works:

Once logged into Racooda, you can post an advertisement for work you need done for free. This allows for people with the right skillset to find your ad, contact you about it, and get the job done right.

More at:http://racooda.com/