eVermont Resources

With the recent designation of area towns Cambridge, Morrisville, Hardwick and Calais as participants in the e-Vermont Community Broadband Project there are a number of resources and free classes being offered.

This list of links from Public Services Librarian Larraby Fellows, from the Hartness Library is a great place to start.

Other resources at the eVermont Resource Library.

Computer and Internet Basics

In Plain English Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/leelefever

Teach Parents Tech: http://www.teachparentstech.org/

How (Tech) Stuff Works: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/tech

Web-based Communication Tools

FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/

Ning http://www.ning.com/

Twitter http://twitter.com/

Skype http://www.skype.com (download req)

DimDim http://www.dimdim.com

Website/Blog Creation

WordPress http://wordpress.org/ (download req)

Google’s Blogger http://www.blogger.com/

Weebly http://www.weebly.com/

Joomla http://www.joomla.org/ (download req)

Drupal http://drupal.org/ (download req)

(note: some of these products require a download and more time/tech skills than others; WordPress, Joomla and Drupal are less user friendly, but still free and great for more advanced participants)

Spreadsheets & Word Processing

Zoho http://www.zoho.com/

Google Docs http://docs.google.com/

Free Music

Grooveshark http://listen.grooveshark.com/

Pandora http://www.pandora.com/

Last.fm http://www.last.fm/

Photo Sharing & Prints

Flickr (share)

Photobucket (share)

Shutterfly (share/prints)

Snapfish (share/prints)