The communications business is growing all the time. Thankfully, so are the resources. Here are helpful links for a wide range of communications needs.

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Web Marketing

http://www.linkpopularity.com
A free link popularity service that reports the total number of web sites that link to your site.

http://computingcentral.msn.com/
     internet/speedtest.asp
This is a utility that reports the results of your modem connection speed test.

http://webservices.adobe.com/
     optimize/main.html
Improve the performance of your Web graphic images by optimizing them with these site tools.

http://www.flashkit.com
Flash Kit is a resource site that contains sounds, images and ideas for flash developers.

http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu
eLab is a corporate sponsored research center that studies the marketing implications of commercializing the World Wide Web.

Marketing

http://www.marcommwise.com
The MarcommWise Knowledge Bank contains full text articles on a full range of marketing communication topics.

http://www.adage.com
AdAge is the support site for the magazine, Advertising Age, and contains useful information to help you advertise both online and offline.

http://www.amic.com
The Advertising Media Internet Center (AMIC) contains a variety of articles in areas such as Web site advertising, and has links to organizations such as the Advertising Research Foundation and the Community Action Network.

http://www.benedict.com
This portal provides real world, practical and relevant copyright information for anyone navigating the net.

http://www.uspto.gov
The primary services the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) provide include processing patents and trademarks and disseminating patent and trademark information.

Affiliations

http://www.emarketingassociation.com
The eMarketing Association (eMA) is the professional association for companies and individuals involved in the practice of eMarketing and the integration of online and offline marketing.

http://www.svama.org
The Silicon Valley Chapter of the AMA (SVAMA) sponsors meetings, workshops, and seminars where members meet and exchange ideas with leading innovators and thinkers in business, research, and academia.

http://www.norcalbma.org
The Northern California Chapter of BMA helps you keep pace with the latest trends and issues affecting marketing.

http://www.mmanet.org
The Medical Marketing Association (MMA) provides a stimulating forum for the professional development of marketers of medical products and services.

http://www.stc.org
The Society for Technical Communication (STC) is dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication.

http://www.aiga.org
The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis, research, advance education and ethical practice.

      

Graphic Design

http://www.gain.org
The Graphic Arts Information Network: the portal to the graphic arts industry.

http://www.pdfzone.com
PDFzone.com provides the most timely and useful information on PDF and Acrobat on the Internet.

http://www.graphicbrain.com
This is a specialized search engine for graphic arts and packaging industry resources.

Copy Writing

Dictionaries

http://nhd.heinle.com
The Newbury House Online Dictionary contains over 40,000 entries and is based on the best selling Newbury House Dictionary of American English.

http://www.allwords.com
AllWords.com is an online dictionary that gives definitions, translates words into five different languages, and lets you listen to word pronunciation.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org
Cambridge Dictionaries Online allows you to search four different online dictionaries.

http://www.oed.com
An online version of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Dictionary and Thesaurus Combinations

http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
Web site by Merriam-Webster that features a dictionary and thesaurus.

http://www.wordsmyth.net
Wordsmyth is an American English dictionary and thesaurus.

http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn
WordNet® is an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory.

http://www.thesaurus.com
http://www.dictionary.com
Related sites that include links to writers' resources, games, word information, and more.

Writing References

http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
An online version of The Elements of Style by William Strunk.

http://www.junketstudies.com/
rulesofw/frules.html
11 rules of writing.

http://webster.commnet.edu/
     HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm
A guide to grammar and writing.

http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar
EduFind.com in an education resources website that contains a version of The Online English Grammar: a guide searchable through a table of contents.

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing
A Rutgers professor's guide to grammar and style.

http://www.webgrammar.com
Webgrammar is a site devoted entirely to grammar.