Useful websites

The following websites should help in the course of your everyday work.

Health and Social Care websites

Community
York LETS (Local Exchange and Trading System) Like other LETS schemes, this scheme allows people to trade and barter without money.
Freecycle - York Join the York Freecycle Yahoo! group give and receive all manner of useful items for free.
streetbank.com Lend idle capacity to your neighbours - collaboration at the city level.
Collaborative Consumption Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in swapping, sharing, bartering, trading and renting being reinvented through the latest technologies and peer-to-peer marketplaces in ways and on a scale never possible before.

Democracy

They Work For You TheyWorkForYou tells you everything you could want to know about what your Member of Parliament gets up to in Westminster.
Fix My Street A site where people can report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting.
Openly Local Openly Local is a new project to develop an open and unified way of accessing Local Government information.
Tell Them What You Think Collects government consultations into one place, so you can: search current government consultations for words and phrases, and set up alerts to tell you when consultations of interest are published.

Organisation and productivity (!)

Doodle Makes it simple to schedule a meeting. Just add the possible meeting dates, then email out a supplied link to everyone. Once you know who is available when, you can set the meeting date.
Jing Take a picture or make a short video of what you see on your computer monitor. Share it instantly via web, email, instant messages, Twitter or your blog

Running an organisation

Communication