v-Fluence Links

Companies and Organizations

• Marketing Sherpa - a media company publishing useful Case Studies, results data, and best practices for marketing, advertising, and public relations professionals.
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.

Blogs and Online Communities

• PR Machine - An excellent blog site that provides the latest news, information and analysis of trends in the public relations industry. 
• Kuro5hin.org is a collaborative site about technology and culture, both separately and in their interactions.
• Slashdot.org is a technology-oriented Web site, which is often referred to as a community-driven blog.
• A Shel of My Former Self - Shel has a comprehensive background in public and corporate communications with special focus on strategic employee communications. His blog, which covers a variety of pertinent topics, focuses on the “intersection of communication and technology.”

References

• Marketing Terms - Internet marketing reference and index of the best sites & articles.
• Open Directory Project - DMOZ is an open content directory of Web sites that is managed by a community of volunteer editors.  It is owned by America Online.
• Wikipedia - Wikipedia is a community-developed reference that is the world's largest online encyclopedia.

Publications

• Instant Messaging Planet looks at how companies use instant messaging and associated technologies to conduct business.
• Search Engine Watch provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines.
• Ragan’s PR Intelligence Report gives you reliable, useful news about the public relations industry.

Online Tools

• DNSStuff.com - DNSStuff offers a wide range of tools including DNS tools, tracert, ping, WHOIS, and IP WHOIS.
• FeedValidator.org - Validator for RSS and Atom Feeds.
• NetMechanic - NetMechanic offer a wide array of services for Web site maintenance and search engine optimization, including HTML code help, broken links searches, spell checker, and load time checker.
• WayBack Machine - The Wayback Machine, a service from the Internet Archive and Alexa Internet, allows people to access and use archived versions of stored websites.
• Keyword Density Analyzer - Keyword density is an integral aspect of search engine optimization. Keyword density is the ratio of a keyword or keyphrase to the total words (depth) on a page.
• InstantPosition - Link popularity checker will determine how many links point to your site from elsewhere on the net.
• PC Pitstop - The PC Pitstop will analyze the speed of your connection to the Internet to ensure that you are getting the service that your provider charges you for.
• Rocket Rank - Rocket Rank will allow you to enter a Web site's URL and a keyword phrase and will generate a search engine rankings report that provides the top 20 rankings on 10 search engines.
• TouchGraph GoogleBrowser - TouchGraph GoogleBrowser lets you surf Google's "similar pages" networks in a Java applet.
• Webpage Size Checker - This tool will scan a URL and provide you with information on various size elements of the URL.
• Competitious - A Web site that will allow you to track your competitors across a range of key metrics and benchmark your own Web presence.