During my presentation at AIW’s seminar yesterday, I promised to provide links to all the sites I talked about, so here they are!

Word Processing

• Google Docs
• Zoho Writer
• Adobe Buzzword

Distraction-Free Writing

• WriteRoom
• DarkRoom

Notetaking

• Evernote

Mindmapping

• MindMeister

Query Tracking

• Slushomatic
• Write Again

Invoicing

• Harvest
• Freshbooks

Contact Management

• Batchbook
• Gist

Task Lists

• Remember the Milk

Social Networking

• Tweetdeck

Internet Browsers

• Firefox

Firefox Plugins

• Shareaholic
• Text Area Word Counter

Desktop Blogging Tools

• Mars Edit
• Windows Live Writer

A few other sites that I mentioned in conversations throughout the day that may also be helpful:

• Help A Reporter Out — useful for finding sources for articles, books, etc.
• Scribd — embed PDFs in your website without eating up your hosting
• Google Analytics — tracks visitors to your website
• Cotweet — tweet from multiple Twitter accounts

There are thousands of other great tools for writers out there. If you find yourself needing something that isn’t up here, it my just be a matter of searching on Google. If you have any questions, please let me know, either in the comments or through my email form.

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