Guidestar

Hi All,

Guidestar is a website to help users find information about nonprofit organizations.  Basically Guidestar gathers and disseminates information about IRS registered nonprofit organizations.

It provides information about each organizations mission, legitimacy, impact, reputation, finance, programs, transparency, governance and more.  To learn even more about Guidestar click on this link with is their 'About Us' page.

Guidestar has a search box at the top of the page - in addition users can click on boxes at the top left side of the page on Geography, Organization and Financials for additional links.  Users can also type in the state, zip code and other geographical information to find a nonprofit organization. 

When a nonprofit organization of interest is found, users can find the organizations' mission statement, ruling year (year the IRS granted the organization tax exempt status), President/CEO, contact information, EIN and keywords related to the nonprofit.

Users are allowed 5 free profiles before they are 'locked' out of the site.  However, by creating yor own free account, users can unlock unlimited profile views!

Links to Programs can be found at the top of the page.  In addition, Financials can be found at the other link at the top of the page as well. Operational information is available as well. However, to find this information (Program, Financial, Operational information) users will need to create a free account on the site....

Once you create the free account users will see the information available to users on Guidestar.  For nonprofit information its a great resource!

Enjoy the site!

Regards,
Stu

Get Your Newspaper Here, Get Your Newspaper Here...

Hi All,

Just found a very interesting news website. Its not like a traditional newspaper site like the New York Times or Newsday or the Washington Post though.

The site name is Paperboy and bills itself as letting readers being able to 'Choose From Our List of 12092 Online Newspapers and ePapers to Get Your Daily Newspaper Fix!'  That is pretty darn awesome!  Try subscribing to 2 newspapers, let alone a dozen or so.

Anyway, there is a search box at the top right side of the webpage where users can click on a dialog box to be able to search for a particular newspaper or to do a Google webs search or to search for news headlines.  Simple and straightforward.

A visit to the site lists the top 25 newspapers listed by circulation. The names of the newspapers - and links are included in the first section of the page. 

Further down the page is a link to the Top 100 US Newspapers and US Newspapers Listed by State.  Even further down on the page is a list of World Newspapers Listed By Country.

There are links to World Newspapers, US Newspapers, News Headlines and Front Pages at the top of the sites' homepage. 

Interesting website and it'll help you keep the conversation going at a cocktail party - especially with all the news that you have at your fingertips!

Enjoy the site.

Regards,
Stu

RefDesk.com

Hi All,

One of the better reference related websites available on the internet is Refdesk.com.  The site is eclectic - it has something for everyone as this blog post will attest to.

Refdesk has many, many useful features for users including options to check your email from a central location, a debt clock, Contacting Elected Officials, Job Search Resources, USA Gas Price Map, Headline News from Bing, Google, and Yahoo.  There is also a way to select a news source from either AP, BBC, Bing, Fox, Google, NPR, UPI, WSJ,  or Yahoo!. 


Users can search Yahoo! or YouTube from the homepage and also look for the Fact of the Day or Though of the Day or This Day in History.

Users can actually search Refdesk.com - use the search box on the left side of the page.  Users can also use TheFreeDictionary.com as a computing dictionary, medical dictionary, legal dictionary, financial dictionary or an acronym finder.

There are also People White Page Resources available to users.  For example, users can search 50States.com, AnyWho.com, Intelius.com, WhitePages.com.  There are also Reverse Phone Lookup sites and Reverse Address Lookup sites....sigh. 

And, finally, there are good news sites like Amazing News, Gallup Well-Being Index, Good News Broadcast,  and HappyNews.com.

What I just mentioned are just 'some' of the link from the top half of the homepage on RefDesk.com.  When I say that the site is eclectic and chock full of links, I am not kidding.

One last note...toward the middle of the page are various links under the rubric 'Today's Pictures'.  Trust me - this is awesome.  Link under this category are as varied as Botany Picture of the Day, Earth Images, Kodak, Latest Mars Images, National Geographic Photos in the News, Reuters Pictures, Top News Photos, Weather Photo Gallery and Webcam Index.

The pictures and photos are completely addictive so watch the hours flow by as if they were minutes!

Enjoy the site and the many, many links!
Regards,
Stu