“These are a few of my favorite things!”

 

“Next Door” App

Typical platform uses include neighbors reporting on news and events in their "neighborhood" and members asking each other for local service-provider recommendations. It’s free, it’s awesome and allows you to meet your neighbors!

“CDC” App

This free app gives everyone up to date FACTS about diseases all over the world. The main goal of the CDC is to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.

“Citizen” App

Citizen is a free mobile app that sends users location-based safety alerts in real time. It allows users to read updates about ongoing reports, broadcast live video, and leave comments. The app uses radio antennas installed in major cities to monitor 911 communications, with employees filtering the audio to generate alerts including COVID-19 updates.

 

Findzebra.com

Sometimes, physicians are confronted with rare diseases. FindZebra is a free tool for helping diagnosis of rare diseases current treatments, specialists and research studies. It uses freely available high quality curated information on rare diseases and is a great resource for anyone suffering with a rare disease/problem.

“Eventbrite” App

Eventbrite is a free American event management and ticketing website. The service allows users to browse, create, and promote local events. Just put in your zip code wherever you are and it will give you a list of classes, plays, parades, bands or anything else that is fun and exciting! This app brings people together through live experiences. Discover events that match your passions, or create your own with online ticketing tools.

“Think Dirty” App

Think Dirty® app is free and educates users on potential toxins in household, personal care and beauty products. Just scan the product barcode and Think Dirty will give you easy-to-understand info on the product, its ingredients, and shop cleaner options!