I've always been an 'information geek' so this gives me a great place to share what I've found with you! In each of our newsletters we share some cool websites and then list them so they are easy to refer back to. Subscribe to our newsletter here and don't updates on more cool websites.

Communications

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? www.twitter.com

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. You can create colorful mind maps online, share and work with friends, embed your mind map in your blog or website, email and print your mind map, save your mind map as an image - and it's FREE. http://www.bubbl.us

Meeting Management
With TimeBridge's one-step scheduling you select attendees, propose meeting times and send a meeting invitation. TimeBridge does the rest— collects everyone's availability and selects the best time. Everyone gets a confirmation once the meeting is set. To make it easy, attendees need only a web browser to respond and no registration is required. http://www.timebridge.com

Use MeetingWizard to arrange and schedule meetings and other events.  As a productivity tool it makes the planning process easier and more effective.  MeetingWizard automatically does the following: sends invitations to participants proposing alternate times; summarizes their responses; updates you on the results; sends confirmations; sends optional reminders prior to meetings. http://www.meetingwizard.com

Salary Information

On Monster's Salary Centre page you can enter your job/category/position and find out how others in your city or province are being compensated. The information includes information the upper and lower salary scale as well as the median. http://salary.monster.ca/

Get accurate, real-time salary reports based on your job title, location, education, skills and experience at PayScale. They also have a very cool calculator to determine if your meetings worth every penny? Find out with the new Meeting Miser. Just enter the attendees and start the timer. This handy gadget knows that time is money and will calculate exactly how much you're spending ... or wasting. Both are available at http://www.payscale.com

Stretch It Out

Kinks and pains in your neck and shoulders from too much keyboarding and mousing? Twenty years ago I attending a workshop with Bob Anderson, the Guru of Stretching, here in Victoria. He was great then and he's even better now with the release of his Stretchware, the software that reminds you to stretch. You can download a free 30-day trial at http://www.stretchware.com/

Homemaker's Magazine has worked with Cynthia Funk from The Yoga Sanctuary in Toronto to develop a series of 3 minute desk yoga videos - check them out here.