How to Use Scribd

 

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Can you scroll down below, please? At the bottom is my tutorial on how to upload files in Scridb. How did I include this tutorial? First, I created a PPT and then converted it to PDF and uploaded it in www.scribd.com. Isn't it amazing? My PPT is in my blog. :)

Scribd is a digital documents library that allows users to publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents in various languages. Scribd is a self-publishing platform where you can not only publish articles, but also share files, like a viral short eBook you created, for instance!

This can include articles, eBooks, PowerPoint presentations, newsletters, pictures, and other stuff.  It combines the publishing aspect with social marketing! It's an amazing concept where peers rule the web and companies are a second though to a consumer's buying decision.

Scribd is really easy to use. I'm going to show you how shortly. But more importantly - it's FREE! Gotta love those free sites, right?

What Can You Do on Scribd?

Anyone can upload their documents and presentations. Think of it like a big ole library where you walk in and put your own book on the shelf! And thanks to their Flash browser, readers can 'check out" your document right in their browser - without having to download it onto their hard drive.
You can publish your documents, embed them, and convert them - all within Scribd. Instead of filling up your hard drive with reports and articles, you can post them here and share them.
For a marketer, this means exposure and links - two of the most important things in your online success. You can use Word, Text Documents, HTML, JPEGs, PowerPoint, PDFs, Excel Spreadsheets, LITs, Postscripts, and a very important feature - audio files!
From a marketing standpoint, it's important that you get to see stats with your uploads, so Scribd lets you see who's viewing your files. It tells you where they live and how they found it (like from Google, for instance).
Scribd lets your page with your document earn its own PageRank. You can do a bulk upload, too, if you need to get a bunch of content up quickly.
Since this is a social platform, you're going to have feedback from the public square - meaning, people are going to give you "likes" and comment on your files. You can claim whatever copyrights to your files that you want to so that they won't get stolen and reused (or at least, they're not supposed to).
Scribd, like most sites now, has its own algorithm, so you want to use the site to your advantage, but while keeping in line with their rules and etiquette so that your documents perform to their best ability.

Source: http://www.squidoo.com/usescribd

Here's a simple tutorial on how to use Scribd.