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Why Scribd.com has moved to #1 on my Cool List for Blogging

So I've been playing around with a number of free online hosting sites as of late. Since we in Chicago have the ability to access some of the most complete and up-to-date real estate statistics via Agent Metrics by Terradatum, it's really come down to a couple of things.

Is the site professional looking and allow you to personally brand yourself?
Does it allow multiple document formats? (i.e. .doc, .xls, .pdf, etc.)
Does it allow the individual to share items both publically and privately?
Does it group/categorize the documents into a workable format?
Does it do a good job of search engine tagging for the individual?
Lastly, will it embed into a blog or website seamlessly and look sweeeeeet?

Welcome to Scribd.com and quite possibly the answer to what I'm looking for. It's free, it has delivered on almost all of the things I'm looking for (minus the video and image hosting), and has worked well thus far.

Here's a link to my profile on Scribd

Here's what a link to the document looks like

And below, is what an embedded PDF file looks like in a blog post using their iPaper program.

Lakeview Attached/Detached Dec. 2008

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Annual Reports Business chicago lakeview

I've taken a look at a couple of other programs including Google Documents and Kadoo.com (who I have a conference call with this week to discuss a little further), but as of today, Scribd.com is top of my list. Try it out for free and share any insight you might have with us here.

~ Matt Dollinger

Read more of my posts at www.TheYouFactor.com

Posted by Matthew Dollinger on 01/07/2009 12:08 AM

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6 Comments on Why Scribd.com has moved to #1 on my Cool List for Blogging

JAN

Matthew - I have used Scribd a few times and really liked it. I need to use it more, keep on forgetting... I need to play with it a bit more as well. Thanks for the reminder. ~Rita