10 Free Online Tools

First, let me suggest if you haven't already subscribed to Ragan.com's PR Daily or Ragan's Daily Headlines, you should. Not everything every day is 100 percent useful or relevant to my work, but there are golden nuggets of information often enough to make it worth the additional messages in my inbox.

Today, the most helpful post is a link to a post on "The COMMS Corner" listing 10 free social media tools. I learned about SWiX a couple of weeks ago - very cool tool!

New stylebook coming this summer

I, for one, wouldn't be caught at work without my "AP Stylebook." But, a post on today's "PR Daily Newsfeed" from Ragan.com caught my attention.

Yahoo is publishing a styleguide for online writing in July. Here's the link to The Business Insider story. Amazon.com has it available for pre-order.

How does your online newsroom stack up?

Jeremy Porter's Journalistics blog is packed with great information. Today, he's looking at online newsrooms of small businesses.

How does you online newsroom compare?

Follow up: Jeremy Potter contacted me to thank me for the link to his blog and welcomes any suggestions for future topics. Any ideas of what you'd like to see?

Great tips for bloggers to observe copyrights

Jonathan Bailey provides great explanations of copyrights as it applies to bloggers (with broader implications for the rest of us who don't blog).

5 Copyright Facts Every Blogger Should Know

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