Resource
Links
Communicator Resource Sites
Dictionary & Language Sites
U.S. Federal Statistical Agency Sites
Standards Information Sites
Encyclopedia Sites
Postal Information Sites
This collection of links contains information uniquely targeted to communicators. The sites offer valuable resources to enrich your bag of "tools of the trade."
www.virtuosity3.com
The site features a good variety of topical articles of real value
to communicators. Its staff is a highly qualified trio of
communication consultants whose experise includes communication
consulting, including writing, design, PR, media, marketing,
advertising and Web.
www.theslot.com
A highly original site presented by Bill Walsh, chief of the copy
desk in the business section of The Washington Post for all those
folks whose jobs entail copy editing. All types of really valuable
information, laced with offbeat humor. A newspaper editor's
thorough and opinionated look at grammar and style questions ...
THE SLOT was selected as Cool Site of the Day for July 20, 1996.
It has also won several other awards.
www.google.com
Unusual search engine that can find just about anything -- the
more unusual the better! Great for researching those tiny details
for your stories.
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This is a compiled list of links for those who need to look-up a word, find its meaning, retrieve a career-specific definition or get a language translation.
Babelfish, This site
allows the you to use their online software to translate words and sentences from English
to French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian or vice-versa.
Biographical Dictionary, This
dictionary includes more than 27,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from
ancient times to the present day.
Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) Index,
An alphabetical index to the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)
revised fourth edition, as supplied by the US Dept. of Labor
DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms,
This database holds the index to the Department of Defense Dictionary Data
Base.
Hypertext Webster Interface,
This is an
online version of Webster's dictionary.
Index of On-line Dictionaries,
Billed
as a one stop word resource on the Web, this resource is linked to more than 800
dictionaries in 160 different languages
Jurisdictionary,
Jurisdictionary explains court procedure, rules
of evidence, and language lawyers use.
Management and Technology Dictionary,
This site is a rubicon of modern management and technology knowledge which
contains information for businesses operating in the computerized 1990's and beyond.
Merriam-Webster
Dictionary,
This site offers not only a dictionary, but a
thesaurus and a collection of language-related tools.
OneLook
Dictionaries,
There are a number of good dictionaries on the
Internet, and this site allows the user to make multiple word searches simultaneously.
Travlang's Translating Dictionaries,
Another translation site that lets you translate
words to hundreds of languages.
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U.S. Federal Statistical Agency Sites
If you need a statistic,
most like one of the below listed Federal Statistical Agencies might be able to help.
Bureau
of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Census Bureau
Economic Research Service
Energy Information Administration
National Agricultural Statistics Service
National Center for Education Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
Statistics of Income (IRS)
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Many businesses use the
sites below to check on the latest standards for their industry.
American
National Standards Institute (ANSI)
Content Knowledge: A Compendium of
Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education
Graphical Symbols Compliant
to IEC Standard 417
ISO 9000 Forum
ISO 9000 QS 9000 QUALITY LINKS
ISO Online
National
Institute of Standards and Technology
National Standards Systems Network
NAICS Download Page
North American Industry Classification
System (NAICS)
Standard Industrial
Classifications (SIC) Index
Standards
Council of Canada
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The links below are some of
the best, all-around encyclopedia sites on the Internet.
CIA World Factbook 1999,
The Central Intelligence Agency's "World
Factbook"
Encyclopedia Smithsonian,
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian features answers to frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian and links
to Smithsonian resources.
Encyclopedia.com,
More than 17,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic
Encyclopedia, Third Edition have been assembled to provide free, quick and useful
information on almost any topic.
Funk & Wagnalls Knowledge Center,
Complete
Funk & Wagnalls unabridged 29-volume encyclopedia, enriched with multimedia:
animations, sounds, music, flags, maps and more. Also, Random House Webster's College
Dictionary with over 165,000 entries.
Information
Please,
Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a
dictionary, and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and
historical records, Information Please places the resources of an entire reference
information center at your fingertips.
Living
Almanac of Disasters,
This almanac gives users access to a database of
natural disasters.
Old
Farmer's Almanac,
Since 1792, The Old Farmer's Almanac has
published useful information for people in all walks of life.
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If you need information
about ground mail or package delivery, NAMIC Online has collected some of the top sites to
help you.
Federal
Express Package Tracking
National Address and ZIP+4 Browser
Official Postal Service
Abbreviations
Postage Rates
Worldwide
Pro-Zipcode!
UPS Package Tracking
USPS City State / ZIP Code
Associations
USPS Postal Rates
USPS ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information
USPS ZIP+4 Lookup Form
ZIPcode 4 Address Database
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