1. FREE custom text cloud tool
www.tagcrowd.com
TagCrowd is a tool that creates a custom text cloud of your website, writing, or any text. A text cloud is a visual representation of the word content. Words are given a weight based how frequently they appear in the text. Most-used words appear larger & bolder while lesser-used words appear smaller, creating a picture of the text. The website suggests the following uses:

- as topic summaries for speeches and written works
- as blog tool or website analysis for search engine optimization (SEO)
- for visual analysis of survey data
- as brand clouds that let companies see how they are perceived by the world
- for data mining a text corpus
- for helping writers and students reflect on their work
- as name tags for conferences, cocktail parties or wherever new collaborations start
- as resumes in a single glance
- as visual poetry

Cost: FREE

Oddpodz Review: TagCrowd can be what you need to re-visualize your work. You are seeing your words in a fresh way. This is great tool for visual learners.

2. FREE online “sticky notes”
www.linoit.com

Lino It is Online Stickies. Face it; using sticky notes is simply more fun than writing on a boring legal pad. This is a Web 2.0 take on those old-fashioned, canary-yellow sticky notes. Using drag and drop features, you can organize ideas, plot your story, arrange talking points, even post pictures and videos, all on a virtual board. You could also manage to-do lists, or remind yourself of future appointments, all made simple by the calendar structure of the site. You can share this board with colleagues, friends, family, or choose to keep it private. Others can even subscribe to an RSS feed of your virtual stickies. The site has user-friendly, intuitive use, and yes, you can even choose the color stickies you want to use.

Cost: FREE

Oddpodz Review: This isn’t for people who thrive on organization. It’s for those of us surrounded by notes on scrap paper and distracted by shiny objects. And hey, we like it that way. Thumbs up for LinoIt for making organization less dull.

3. FREE online whiteboarding
www.skrbl.com
Skrbl is free online whiteboarding. You can write, draw, or just scribble out your ideas. You can give out the URL of your Skrbl board and collaborate live with others, functioning as an online meeting space. All of these features are FREE.

Skrbl also offers a paid account with more functionality. With Team Skrbl, you can co-browse the internet, highlight text for others to read, and even chat by video or phone online, incorporating your Skype ID. A Team Skrbl account is $10 a month, allowing up to five users.

Cost: FREE

Oddpodz Review: Skrbl is way of getting the ideas out, making the old-fashioned whiteboard new again. Once they’re out there, the next step is up to you. With cool collaborative features, taking your ideas to the next step can be a group process.

4. FREE podcast publishing tool
www.switchpod.com

Tired of writing? Try talking. Do a podcast. Switchpod makes podcasting easy, doing for podcasts what platforms like Blogger and Wordpress have done for blogging. Podcasts are audio media files distributed through the Internet. Since people often listen to podcasts on their digital music players, you can create a form of “portable media.” An innovative way of getting your ideas out there, you could record a weekly address, a music program, a lecture, or just tell jokes. Users can visit your Switchpod page to download and listen to your content. Switchpod hosts up to 450mb for free, with options of buying more space for a monthly fee.

Cost: FREE

Oddpodz Review: People like fresh and interesting ways of consuming media, and a podcast is another opportunity to reach your customers or get your brand out there.

News:
Oddpodz welcomes Michelle Carrigan as a new FREE Biz Findz contributor. By day, Michelle is an internet researcher and finder of information. She can find anything online, even the name of your pets. Michelle Carrigan is a writer by night, and like any writer, she claims she is going to write a book one day. Currently her life ambition is to win something, anything in a raffle. Despite filling out all those slips, she has never won a raffle prize. By late, late night, Michelle is an inventor of a secret robot to Google her brain. To contact Michelle, visit her Oddpodz profile. Her username is mcarrigan.