Free templates for work

By Aditya Mhatre at 29 April, 2008, 8:21 am

With all the companies wanting to be standards compliant like CMMi, PMP and all other three letter quality initiatives, a lot of us spend time documenting our work. And when you are not documenting, you are either preparing for a presentation to validate the raise that you got or bitching about your boss while smoking a cigarette in the smoker’s zone. I really can’t help you with the smoking but can definitely point you to resources that’ll make your life easier and prettier with templates that you can use at work.

Free template resources

HP Template gallery (Free) has a good collection of professional looking powerpoint presentation templates as well as word document templates. The site presents a wide variety of other templates like logos, brochures etc as well. They have also categorized the templates for different businesses like Real Estate, Medical, Restaurants etc. You can check out all the templates here.
SCORE , Counsellors to America’s Small Businesses has a good collection of purpose oriented templates like bank loan request or cash flow statements.
Stock.xchng is a great source of free stock images to be used in the powerpoint or brochures.
Microsoft’s template gallery also deserves a mention but the website only works for people using Windows OS. Sadly, mac and linux users aren’t welcome.
Project management is a big deal but executing a project according to the PMBOK is a big pain. There is so much documentation to be done that it virtually leaves no time to execute the actual project. But to make life a little bit easier, Project Kickstart has provided a good templates to work on.

Professional Services:

Don’t look any further than Template Monster, to get a professinal looking website templates. They have templates in flash, HTML, and also for open source content management systems like Joomla, OsCommerce, ZenCart etc.
The best place online to look for brochure, business card templates etc designing services is available at Stock Layout. The people at stock layout also provide custome service but their client servicing team isnt very god with communication. Its ben more than a week, and I still havent heard back from them about my query. So if you are satisfied with the stuff they have ready then go for it.

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