The Web Tips team is starting a new tradition: a year-end roundup of our favorite tips. The idea is to put together a list of the most useful tips, sites, columns from the past year so that you can have them all in one place. Mine’s below. Jon Dube’s comes next week (as some of you have noticed, we have cut back the tips to once a week for the holiday season; we’re back to two a week in mid-January).
A big thank you and season’s greetings to Poynter readers — we rely on you for tips and feedback to do our work.
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Here are my favorite tips, in no particular order:
Shorter Links, Please: This tip, which helps shorten long URLs, is something I use every day.
Personal Information on the Web: Journalist Duff Wilson’s guide to finding sources.
OnlineHomeBase: A site that helps you take notes online. An update — there are now free and paid versions.
Stuff You Hate, Part I, Part II, Part III: Readers sent in tips about things they hate online.
PCMagazine’s 101 Most Incredibly Useful Sites: More sites than you could shake a wireless mouse at.
Google Deskbar: A look at Google’s attempt to make its product more useful.
Things Worth Paying For, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V: Who says everything needs to be free online? Readers suggested things that they are actually willing to pay for.
A Virtual Resource Shelf: Librarian Gary Price’s excellent reference tips.
Blow Up Your Bookmarks: How to better organize your browser’s “favorites.”
PUSH Journal: Free Nexis access for stories dealing with women’s and sexual health issues.
Ethics Codes From Around the World: More than 100 codes from various news outlets.
And, finally, not a Poynter tip, but something that’s useful anyway: Things You Didn’t Know Google Does.
Your turn: send me sites you like at poynter@sree.net.
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