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Nigel Allen,
95 Geoffrey Street
Toronto, Ontario M6R 1P2,
Canada
Telephone (416) 535-8916

You can send mail to nigeldavidallen@gmail.com

Last revised December 1, 2021.

Useful forms and files to get yourself or your organization listed in various directories

These are text forms that you can save (perhaps using the "view source" comand on your browser) and fill in using a text editor or word-processing application.

• Questionnaire for Encyclopedia of Associations of national associations, foundations, charities and other non-profit groups in the United States. To learn more about the Encyclopedia of Associations, click here.
• Questionnaire for Regional, State and Local Organizations directory for U.S. non-profit groups operating on a scale smaller than nation-wide
• Questionnaire for Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory, published by Gale, part of Cengage Learning.
• Questionnaire for International Organizations directory for national associations of Canada and other countries other than the United States, and for trans-national associations.
• List of directories that Canadian non-profit associations can be listed in.
• Submit your biography to Marquis Who's Who, publisher of Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World, or nominate a colleague for a listing.
• Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives has ceased publication and is no longer being updated.

Telecommunications industry information sources

• The telecommunications links that used to be here have moved to Nigel Allen's telecommunications page.

Links for Journalists

• PR Newswire, a U.S.-based press release distribution service
• CNW Group, Inc., formerly Canada NewsWire, a Canadian press release distribution service.
• Canadian Association of Journalists, a national non-profit advocacy and professional development organization serving Canadian journalists from all media, including print, radio and television.
• Marketwired (formerly CCNMatthews and Canadian Corporate News), another press release distribution service. Today's Marketwire press releases.
• Canadian Advertising Rates and Data. Links to Canadian broadcasters and publications
• Canadian University Press
• Newsdesk, a British press release distribution service.
• Newslink. Links to hundreds of newspapers
• Sources, a Canadian directory and database of contacts for journalists.
• Trans World News
  Distribution of press releases and news items to a network of newsrooms, journalists, and internet affiliates.
• The Varsity at the University of Toronto. "Toronto's most feared and respected morning newspaper," according to the staff T-shirts of a few years ago.
• Associated Collegiate Press, an association of U.S. student newspapers and journalism instructors.

Places to Surf

• University of Toronto, with links to departmental WWW servers at the university
• University of Toronto Staff Association. Now closed down, following the certification of the Steelworkers union as the bargaining agent for most of the U of T employees formerly represented by UTSA.
• Dun & Bradstreet, the credit reporting agency for businesses - order a credit report on a U.S. or Canadian business or list your company with Dun & Bradstreet. Canadian companies can visit Dun & Bradstreet Canada instead.
• Citizens for Safe Cycling, Ottawa. Four wheels bad, two wheels good.
• Callouts.Subscription-based service offering resources for video, graphics and sound creation.
• American Numismatic Association, for collectors of coins and other forms of money.
• Cyberspace World Railroad. Transit and rail information.
• Newslink, links to online newspapers.
• American Journalism Review.
• Canada Post Corporation.
• Canada Post's postal code look-up for any address in Canada. Look up the address corresponding to any Canadian postal code.
• Westminster International. Postal code lookup and address validation for bulk mailers.
• My sister Laura Ashton, an international marketing expert.
• U.S. Postal Service
• Look up U.S. zip codes online
• Canadian National Railway Company.
• Canadian Pacific Railway.
• GO Transit, the official site.
• Albania: country code 355
• Languages of Albania from Ethnologue.
• Babylon.com's English-Albanian online glossaries. Also worth visiting: Babylon.com
• Gifted Youngsters Show Keen Instinct for Needs, Innovative Math Curriculum Approach Suggests: summary of 1993 talk by my father, Dr. Harold Don Allen
• Moveable Inc. of Toronto, formerly known as Moveable Type Inc., a printing company.
• Apikoros Sleuth, a novel by Robert Majzels published in a deluxe edition by Moveable.
• The Internet Nonprofit Center, Putnam Barber's non-profit site.
• National Capital FreeNet, Ottawa. Lots of pages for Ottawa-area community groups. Telnet to National Capital FreeNet
• Request free catalogues in a variety of subject categories. Another site of interest to catalogue shoppers is Google Product Search,, formerly known as Froogle.

Rather odd WWW sites that may be of some interest

• Doonesbury Electronic Town Hall, inspired by Doonesbury, the brilliant comic strip. See also the Doonesbury page at gocomics.com
• Spririt of Radio. Unofficial site celebrates CFNY-FM as it was in the 1978-1990 era. The CFNY reunion party.
• Smurfs.
• User Friendly, a daily comic strip best appreciated by Internet geeks.
• Badia Software. Home of Badia Duplica and other useful add-ins for InDesign and Quark XPress.
• www.FeteNet.com, a site about Soca music.
• The site of blood is such a high.
• Automation Consultants, an IT consultancy and software company in the United Kingdom.
• Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto.
• Bibury Court Hotel in the Cotswolds. A very nice hotel.
• European Passenger Federation, a rail advocacy group.
• List of member associations of the European Passenger Federation.
• Glencore, a mining company
• www.SulfuricAcid.com
• Oceans in Crisis. WWF Canada explains the issues facing the oceans and the creatures in them.
• Forensic entomology.
• Free xml sitemap generator
• History of the Allen or Alan surname by Charlie A. Allen.
• History of the Allen surname by Mike Allen.
• Loblaw Companies Limited corporate annual reports in PDF format.
• Uzbekistan.com
• Uzbekistan's embassy in the United States.
• Some webcomics worth reading.
• London's Transport Museum at Covent Garden.

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