Document Sharing
One of the newest things happening on the internet since all the social networking sties is document sharing. These document sharing sites sites allow individuals and/ or business to upload various documents and share them over the internet. Below are 3 popular document sharing sites.
Scribd claims to be the worlds largest social reading and publishing company. Scribd was launched in March 2007 and has about 60 million readers a month and about 20 million embeds. Scribd allows individuals to read books, magazines reports, documents, business presentations, news, poetry and much more. Anyone can upload files and turn them into webdocuments. Members can have discussions with fellow fans of various topics, rate and comment on post. Scribd allows for connections through Facebook, Twitter, WordPress and other social networking sites. Scribd also makes uploaded documents discoverable on major search engines such as Google and Bing.
Scribd is very user friendly, its easily navigated and has a fun look to it. It doesn’t look intimidating and professional like most of the other document sharing sites. Its more of a individual site rather than a business site, however some business do use Scribd for sharing business documents. Files can be viewed on many viewing platforms such as ereaders, mobile phones, ipads and more.
SlideShare claims to be the best way to share presentations, documents and professional videos. SlideShare offers a free version of its services while offering a “pro” version which allows for more options. The Pro version has 3 pricing options.
SlideShare is a business media website while individuals can upload presentations. SlideShare provides a community that comments shares and downloads documents presentations and videos. . SlideShare helps many presentations become viral through various social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and others. Anyone can view the presentations. SlideShare allows for easy embedding of slideshows to own blog or website, sharing public or private, marketing by self, and joining groups of same intreats.
SlideShare is a video and graphic based document sharing rather the text document sharing. The site itself is easy to navigate like Scribd was and it does have a look about it that is not overwhelming and intimidating. It still has a professional air about it but it still looks interesting and fun. It is somewhat like youtube but with slideshows. You can view the site download and share slideshows without subscribing to the site. If you do however decide to subscribe you then get the community part by getting comments contacts, groups and more.
Launched in 2007 Edocr is much more business oriented document sharing site than the previous sites. It allows users to upload documents and allow others to access these documents, letting them download share or embed them. Edocr offers a free version as well as a version offering more options for a price. Edocr only allows however doc or pdf files and spreadsheets and presentations. Edocr allows for documents to be discoverable also among major search engines. Edocr is geared more to business uses. Mostly sales, marketing and operational documents are uploaded on the site such as brochures, user manuals, datasheets, guidelines and press releases to name a few. While edocr is geared more towards business applications it still has a simple interface making it ways to navigate and use.
This article is the third in a four-part series on Social Media resources.
The first part focused on Video Sharing Services.
The second part focused on Photo Sharing Services.
Come back next week for the next article, focusing on custom social networking services.
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