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As a Web development company, we often use Flickr or YouTube for a variety of purposes. I’m certain many small businesses are able to make use of the commercial photos or videos available on these sites. I’ve recently read an article on Fox News Small Business that reviews some sites for business documents that might prove to be equally useful. I know it’s a pain in the neck every time you want a business plan or contract, you search the web and see what’s available for download. A couple of sites have thousands of these documents available.

1. Docstoc.com has documents categorized by legal, personal business, finance, education and so on. Some of their documents are free, and you are able to upload your documents to sell to others. As is the case with anything, the free documents are not going to be as high quality as the paid products, but if you are tight on cash, or just need to get the jist of something, then this is a really great resource.

2. MegaDox.com also provides document downloads, but for a fee. they have a huge library of forms, and you can pay per form, or buy a membership and get a discount on the forms. A bit more pricey, but still way cheaper than having an attorney draft everything.

3. InforDesk sells an All-Business-Documents downloadable program that consists of 6,000+ documents. The software includes a spell checker, grammar check and communications and sharing tools. A single user licenses costs $85, while a three-user license costs $185.

More and more, the Web has the answers you need to run your small business. I think it’s become second nature to go to the web to find the answer to just about any question, but we all know the old adage “buyer beware”. We’ve all looked up something on the web and found results that were just a little fishy. If you think that may be the case, especially when it comes to business documents, it might just be best practice to use one of these services rather than take a chance, and if it’s something high stakes, such as a contract with a lot of money attached, you may want to have your attorney at least give it a once over before you use the form or sign anything.

As always, I’m here, looking for ways to use the Web to your best advantage. Do you have an online product or service you think others could benefit from, or even just want to suggest one? I’d love to hear what you’ve been using, or what you think is really great…

The L.A. Times has reported that Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas has launched a Tea Party group. Her reasons seem to be about the same as any other Tea party member: “I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people like you.”…”I adore all the new citizen patriots who are rising up across this country… I have felt called to the front lines with you, with my fellow citizens, to preserve what made America great.”

Of course there is going to be hew and cry over the fact that the spouse of a Supreme Court Justice is participating in politics, but she is free to speak her mind as a citizen, the same as anyone else. I do think it’s interesting that the L.A. Times is reporting this, with a considerable liberal bent, as if she were doing something wrong.

On the other hand, I think the some of the left wingnut celebs are going to have a hard time convincing America that this particular Tea Bagger is a racist…

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Virginia, at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Llyod Marcus is an American Singer/Songwriter who belongs to the Tea Party movement. He sometimes writes for a blog called American Thinker. He also happens to be black. This guy has some great insight into what is happening in American politics. If you are so inclined, check him out. This particular link is to a post on the Tea Party Movement and his participation. Stuff like this makes me proud to be an American.

There is also a great post about the Real Tea Party Movement, worth a read. Here’s a quote, just because it’s awesome:

“The real Tea Party story is quite simple and an eloquent tribute to democracy: a genuine movement of ordinary people rising to the demands of their all-American principles. It represents a fundamental difference between those who seek to provide for themselves and those who see government as provider of all material goods. The Tea Party movement is a valiant resistance to decades of profligate entitlement spending, which has had the real effect of worsening every problem it was intended to fix, landing the country, at last, in a sea of impossible debt. Tea Partiers, like the Liberty Boys of 1776, stand steadfast on the principle of equality in the rule of law, not government-ordered equality in material-world goods.”