Instant Protests

If you’re in a protesting mood, say there’s a new development going up in your neighborhood, or your local schools are considering eliminating music programs, or traffic is horrible where you live and the city is considering selling off half of the open space in town to the highest bidder, CitizenSpeak is a great, free, email petition tool for you to use. You can create your own campaign that asks people that you know, and anyone they forward it to, to send an email in support of your protest. Jo Lee, the brains and brawn behind CitizenSpeak, has done a tremendous job of making the site very clear and easy to use. For step-by-step instructions just click here.

If You Still Need to Receive a Fax

When’s the last time you sent or received a fax?  But if you really need to receive a fax, there is an easy free way to do it without needing a fax machine.

eFax is a website that offers free and subscription services.  The free service, eFaxFree allows you to sign up for a fax number that people can send faxes to for free.  There are also two additional services, eFaxPro and eFaxPlus, that can allow you to send faxes from your computer, but for a monthly fee.

I have used the free eFax service for years without any problem.  There are other online fax services, if anyone knows of one where you can send faxes for free please post it!