Social Networking
Sign up for Facebook, the leading social networking site. Go on. Learn the ropes and spy on your kids.
www.facebook.com
LinkedIn is social networking for business -- good for job hunting.
www.linkedin.com
Twitter is called microblogging, but it's really just text messages
www.twitter.com
Social Media University, Global (SMUG) is recommended by Sue Simoneau for learning all about this stuff.
social-media-university-global.org
More Online Learning
w3.org is the official body governing the Web, and it has tutorials on HTML and other Web technology
w3.org
w3schools offers free, advertising-supported online tutorials on all sorts of Web technology
www.w3schools.com
Lynda.com charges (reasonable) fees for a wide array of training in software and technology
www.lynda.com
Apple One to One provides low-cost tutoring for Mac users at Apple stores
www.apple.com/retail/onetoone/
Connecticut Community Colleges provide credit and non-credit courses in software and technology
www.commnet.edu
Free Blog Sites
WordPress is the leading online blog site, where you can set up a blog in minutes
www.wordpress.com
Blogger, Google's entrant in this field, is also simple to use
www.blogger.com
Content Management Systems
Joomla! is one of the two top open-source (meaning free) content management systems.
www.joomla.org
Drupal is the other one.
www.drupal.org
WordPress (the software, not the blogging site) has expanded to become a handy CMS.
www.wordpress.org
Free Web Hosts
Google Sites is a clean and simple free hosting service. You need a (free) Google account.
sites.google.com
Yahoo! Geocities is a venerable free hosting site, but beware of the ads.
geocities.yahoo.com
Comcast offers personal Web space to its high-speed Internet customers.
publish.comcast.net
Cox Internet also offers personal Web space to its customers.
connecticut.cox.net/cci/internettoolswebspace
Web domain registrars / hosts
godaddy.com is cheap, reliable and easy to use
www.godaddy.com
Yahoo! Domains is good, too.
smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains