The One School Blograry

Personal finance knowledge on the cheap

theoneschoollib — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:36:34 +0000

There are some 30 free e-books up for download on Mint’s blog. The ebooks cover such topics such as banking, credit, retirement funds and making the right decisions for your future. While some might say that the topics are a bit too much for college students, I say it’s never too early to know about these sort of things.

30 Free eBooks To Learn Everything You Want To Know About Personal Finance – Mint.com (via Lifehacker)

Organize school life with mySchoolog

theoneschoollib — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:47:18 +0000

Do you remember those days back in grade school when you were made to use a school diary for homework. For all those who miss those days, mySchoolog is for you.

mySchoolog is a webservice which lets you organize your classes and schedules, make assignment and project to-do lists, letting you even take and store notes online. For all those who don’t carry a USB stick around for class, mySchoolog lets you store your all your school files, giving you 100 MB of storage. If you’re on the go, you can even access the service via your cellphone—provided that it runs on Symbian, of course (most Nokia phones). mySchoolog is still in beta.

Organize Your School Life Online

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Make-up Post: Freelancing Services and a Business Resource

theoneschoollib — Thu, 03 May 2007 08:59:28 +0000

It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything here and I apologize. To make up for it, I’m giving you guys three useful links and tools today.

For those of you who might not have that big business idea yet and are comfortable working odd-jobs and freelance work, here are two handy little web services to get you started and making money. The best part? THEY’RE FREE.

Side Job Track – Side Job Track, according to its website, is a “web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting and project management software for the part-time independent contractor”. Whew. You can basically input and manage your side-job/project, create project estimates, time-track your work and bill people! They make that simple, just for you.
BlinkSale – While Side Job Track is all about managing your side projects, BlinkSale focuses mainly on the invoicing you’ll need to do for your one business. It’s as simple as typing the data and the website will create the invoice/bill for you. You can print it out or send them through email. If your business has repeat customers, you can set the service to bill them however frequent you want!

Work.com has some pretty comprehensive guides on how to do all most anything for your business. Whether it’s legal help or human resources or marketing, this website seems to know it all.

How-to Guides to Running Your Small Business from Work.com

The REAL Online Library

theoneschoollib — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:41:59 +0000

As much as I hate to say it, The One School Blograry isn’t a real library of books and authors. However, we are a library of links and articles and downloads, more apt, I believe, for our techie era. Instead of going to the library when faced with a school projects, students log straight into the web, looking up the topic on Google or Wikipedia. While this is all well and good, I do believe that books are still very much important and necessary in any research project.

University of Pennsylvania has merged these two realities–the dependence on digital content and the necessity of traditional book content– by offering their library up online. It has over 25,000 free books on every topic conceivable, searchable by topic, title or author. While the look of the website may not be so inviting, but hey, it does have 25,000 books.

The Online Books Page

Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative

theoneschoollib — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:17:15 +0000

Carnegie Mellon has free courses up for the taking in Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Economics, AND French. You don’t need to register to take advantage of this sweet, yet dorky deal.

Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University

53 FREE online HR courses by ERI

theoneschoollib — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:58:10 +0000

Don’t know how to handle your future employees? Don’t know what to put in your HR Manual? Fret no more. ERI Distance Learning Center has exactly 53 free online courses on Human Resources, all covering different aspects of it. Taking the courses are free but if you’d like to get accredited for taking it, there’s a $29 fee.

ERI Distance Learning Center

Conversational Mandarin, anyone?

theoneschoollib — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:42:01 +0000

For those who might be taking up Mandarin as their Foreign Language elective, you have to check out California State’s Website devoted to the language.

It seems pretty simple to use and understand, covering basic topics such as food, weather, addresses, datea and times. It seems like a really handy primer to have around.

Coversational Chinese Online

NYU serving up some free textbooks

theoneschoollib — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:35:36 +0000

New York University has several basic and intermediate textbooks up for access and/or download for Physics, Statistics and Advanced Mathematics subjects. While you may not be the type to read the entire thing for fun and leisure, they’re worth checking out for reference during your own Statistics and Physics projects.

Free online textbooks, videos, tutorials, lecture notes – NYU

Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start

theoneschoollib — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:21:31 +0000

Guy Kawasaki, the famous author, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has recently wrote a book on how to, basically, start a start up in his new book, The Art of the Start.

“Guy encourages entrepreneurs to make meaning, make mantra, and get going. His brilliant FAQ’s (frequently avoided questions) will answer almost all your fears about starting a new business.”

Part of the book is available for free as a manifesto from ChangeThis.

ChangeThis :: The Art of the Start

Stocks, Bonds and Retirement?!

theoneschoollib — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:00:23 +0000

CNN Money has an awesome primer on learning how to deal with your personal finance. They have 23 different lessons covering topics like investing in stocks and bonds to insurance to house purchasing to saving up for retirement. Be sure to check out the lessons on investing, debt and taxation!

Money 101 – Financial Advice & Lessons Made Easy by CNN Money