Free Education, College Courses, and Knowledge

The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.  It is worldwide community of hundreds of universities and associated organizations committed to advancing OpenCourseWare and its impact on global education.  OpenCourseWare(OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality university‐level educational materials.  Currently the OCW database contains 3,786 courses from 45 sources and 7 languages, and is growing.

While this website is still new to me it seems to have a wealth of knowledge in it and it continues to grow.  While know certificates or degrees are offered through it the information is there and placed there by many prestigious universities.

Fun Survey Website - ICS

Instant Cash Sweepstakes is pretty simple website that is both easy and straight forward.  The premise is that you complete quick 3 question survey earning tickets which are entered into a drawing every day for $50 as well as the $2 drawing.  Overtime your TS or Trust Score on ICS can improve based on your consistent response to questions, thus increasing the tickets and coins received.  The cool thing is you win what ever your friends win.

Where to get new tires?

Discount Tire  Those guys got me in and out as promised, although I did call ahead for an appointment.  Better yet I mentioned to them that my current tires had not last the stated mileage and they were able to efficiently process the credit right then and there.  A few weeks later when talking with a friend they did same thing for her crediting the two tires she was replacing.

As far as price they were the lowest beating, Sears who I have used and been OK with in the past.  Before buying new tires don't forget to read the customer opinions from sites like Discount Tire, Sears, TireRack.com.  

Swagbucks - Making Money Searching the Internet

Ok so one evening I was checking my email, and I became 'disstracted', as my wife would say, reading a random article and I came across Swagbucks.  It is a site that lets users collect Swagbucks by searching the Internet, taking polls, and completing surveys.  It is REALLY EASY to do and IT IS FREE.  The best way to utlize Swagbucks is to install the Swagbucks toolbar which I did on my home computer and work laptop and have had no problems.  I almost forgot, once you collect the Swagbucks you can purchase items from their store or convert them gift cards or Paypal cash.  So go ahead and give it a try.

Making Money From Stock Photographs and Art

I have run across these websites while searching for photos and pictures for various projects and then realized someone is getting paid by me buying these pictures so why not make that person you.  The sites are iStockphoto, ShutterStock, dreamstime, and Fotolia. The idea is simple you load pictures or videos and people pay to purchase the pictures and you collect a portion of the fee. My current favorite for purchasing pictures is iStockphoto.

Of course you could load the same photos to all four: iStockphoto, ShutterStock, dreamstime, and Fotolia for a greater chance of your material being found and making a revenue.  Yes, in some cases I make a small fee, as well, but that has no bearing on the commission you make. So take a look, I would just ask that you use the provided links.