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Free Technologies
for the Office
Brandy Wilson
Career Counselor
Binghamton University
Why focus on free technologies?
How can we meet students?
Facebook, AIM
New technology can cost into the thousands
Let’s not reinvent the wheel
Career counseling technology is behind the
times
Handouts/Disclaimer
Please check the SUNY CDO site for a
copy of this presentation
Disclaimer: While I have used many of
these personally, some are based on other
recommendations. Please take the time to
explore and experience these tools for
yourself.
Outline
Free Technologies
Counseling
Connecting with Students
Marketing
Website Enhancement
Office Tools
Where to Find Them
What is your office doing?
Counseling
Borrowing from Others
Purdue – Career Clusters
http://www.cco.purdue.edu/StudentMajorList.sht
ml
Ball State – Quest – Majors & Interests
http://bsu.edu/students/careers/quest
Borrowing from Others
National Resource Center
http://www.sc.edu/fye/resources/index.htm
NCDA
http://www.ncda.org/
Even if you are not a member, their resource
area is free and full of information
Interactive Timeline
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/
Mission Statement Builder
Franklin Covey
http://www.franklincovey.com/fc/library_an
d_resources/mission_statement_builder
Step-by-step guide to creating a unique,
personalized Mission Statement
Career Videos
Career TV
http://www.careertv.com
/about/index.asp
Career video website
Interviewing
Salary reports
Career related videos
Etc.
Researching Companies
Zoom Info
http://www.zoominfo.com/#
Students with Criminal Backgrounds
Hire Network
http://www.hirenetwork.org/index.html
Provides resources and assistance
information to people with criminal
backgrounds
International Students
Foreign Labor Certification Data Center
http://www.flcdatacenter.com/CaseH1B.aspx
Provides data on companies supporting
H1B Visa’s
Similar to http://www.h1visajobs.com/
(requires paid subscription)
ePortfolio
Epsilen
http://www.epsilen.com
To-Do List Managers
Remember the Milk
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
Rainlender
http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php
Point Motivator
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/PointM
otivator/index.html
Awards and subtracts points based on your progress
Personal Finances
Mint
http://www.mint.com/
Wesabe
http://www.wesabe.com/
Connecting with Students
Instant Messaging
Pidgin
http://www.pidgin.im/
Meebo
http://www.meebo.com/
AOL, Yahoo, MSN
Trillian
http://www.trillian.cc/
Create Your Own Chat Room
Chatmaker
http://www.chatmaker.net/
Create your own chat room
Invite anyone by sending them a special
link
Marketing
Calendar
Google Calendar
http://www.google.com/calendar/render’
RSS Feeds
Allows you to view updates from a variety
of websites from just one link
igoogle.com
Google homepage
Google reader
How to Add RSS Feeds to Your Site
http://www.rssgov.com/rssworkshop.html
This site will walk you through creating
and adding RSS feeds.
Blogging
Blogger
https://www.blogger.com/start
Word Press
http://wordpress.org/
Twitter
http://twitter.com/
Keep in touch with groups
Maximum of 140 characters at a time
Website Enhancement
Website Tracker
Google Analytics
http://www.google.com/analytics/
Find out where they “click” from, what they
are clicking on, how often, etc.
Broken Links
Xenu Link Sleuth
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
HTML Generator
NVU
http://www.nvu.com
Tag Your Website
How to add tags to your website
The Site Wizard
http://www.thesitewizard.com/sitepromotion/met
a-tags-nvu-kompozer.shtml
Revver.com
http://revver.com/video/666038/website-tipsadding-title-tags-keywords-description-tags/
Tag Your Website
What tags should you use?
http://www.tagcloud-generator.com/
http://tagcrowd.com/
Social Bookmarking
Similar to your favorites folder online
Saves the address of a website for future use
Can file the website under different tags
(headings, knowledge areas, etc)
7 Things You Should Know about Social
Bookmarking
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf
Social Bookmarking
http://del.icio.us/ladare
http://digg.com/about
http://www.simpy.com/
http://www.spurl.net/
http://www.mixx.com/
Office Tools
Surveying
Survey Monkey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/
Create a Poll
Doodle
http://doodle.ch/main.html
Create polls on your website, through
email
Conference Calls
Free Conference Call
http://www.freeconferencecall.com/index.asp
Allows you to make a conference call with
up to 96 other lines
Only normal long distance charges
through your phone company apply
Library Catalog
Library Thing
http://www.librarything.com/
Creating PDF’s
http://www.pdfonline.com/
http://www.koolwire.com/Default.aspx
http://www.acrosoftware.com/Products/CutePDF
/writer.asp
Turn a document into a PDF file
Submit/email document to site, receive the
emailed PDF version a few minutes later
Convert PDF’s
[email protected]
[email protected]
Send a PDF document to this email address as
an attachment and it will come back as a plain
text file or in HTML format
http://pdftextonline.com/
Convert your PDF to word and maintain the
fonts and formatting
Edit PDF’s
Split & merge documents
http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=32
Edit document
http://www.pdfhammer.com/
Microsoft Office
OpenOffice
http://www.openoffice.org/
GoogleDocs
http://docs.google.com/?pli=1
Zoho
http://zoho.com/
150 Free Microsoft Office Tools
http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!70F64BC910C
9F7F3!1344.entry
Photoshop
GetPaint
http://www.getpaint.net/
Pixifix
http://www.pikifx.com/
GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/
Phixr
http://www.phixr.com/
Images and Pictures
Every Stock Photo - pulls images from
other sites
http://www.everystockphoto.com/index.php
Translating
Google Translator
http://www.google.com/translate_t?hl=en
Babel Fish
http://world.altavista.com/
FoxLingo
https://addons.mozilla.org/enUS/firefox/addon/2444
Note Taking
Notely
http://www.notely.net/
Take notes, organize tasks, and access them
from anywhere
Springnote
http://www.springnote.com/en
Voice Recorders
Jott
http://jott.com/
Vozme
http://vozme.com
Converts your voice into emails, text messages,
reminders, lists and appointments
Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Record and edit audio files
Web Accessibility
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
This was a basic site I found, so that I
could get this presentation sent to you
sooner. Please check with your web/tech
teams at your institution as they may have
rules or help already in place.
If You Have the $$
$$ Technologies
Virtual Worlds
http://secondlife.com/whatis/
Interview situations
Training counselors
Just for Fun
For the shoppers…
Online deals
http://dealnews.com/
Find secret Amazon discounts
http://deallocker.com/tool/secret-amazondiscount/
Procrastinating at Work
Watch TV at work
http://www.openhulu.com/
Rules of Thumb
http://www.rulesofthumb.org/
4,000+ Games
http://www.kongregate.com/
Procrastinating at Work
GoogleEarth
http://earth.google.com/
“Tracking People”
http://www.pipl.com
Comprehensive web search
http://www.zabasearch.com
Search for addresses and phone numbers
Where are they?
Where to Look
Google
Google – Google apps
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/var_0.html
Where to Look
http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/
Web, marketing, and PR in higher ed
News and tips
You can RSS it!
Where to Look
Blog High Ed
http://www.bloghighed.org/
Provides lists of other blogs as well
Where to Look
Lifehacker
http://lifehacker.com/
Where to Look
Mark Greenfield
http://markgr.com/
Leading higher education web expert
Where to Look
The Best Free Software
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2260070
,00.asp
157 types of software
Where to Look
http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/access
-websites-over-email-without-internetconnection/1660/
Top 10 emails when you don’t have
internet
Where to Look
EDUCAUSE
http://www.educause.edu/
Nonprofit association whose mission is to
advance higher education by promoting the
intelligent use of information technology.
Articles such as “7 Things You Should Know
About…”
What is your office doing?