Post Documents Online at Scribd
Scribd is a platform for uploading and sharing documents – much like YouTube and Roots TV are platforms for video. If you are looking for a location to make family history information available online, you may want to take a look.
Using Scribd, you can upload any number of document formats – MS Office, Open Office.org, PDF, HTML, plain text and postscript to name a few – and each will be converted into a Flash format that can be viewed using their custom viewer. Flash works with all browsers and all operating systems so just about anyone will be able to view your work. And, like YouTube and Roots TV, you can embed the viewer/document on your web site. Visitors can also download the document in any of a number of formats – and even choose to listen to an audio version of it. Be warned that it’s being read by a machine so it’s not the most exciting audio story, but it’s still pretty cool.
Here’s Scribd’s list of things you can do:
- Display documents in a web browser using our custom Flash PDF player
- Perform high quality conversions between many different formats, including Word, PDF, plain text, HTML, JPEG, PowerPoint, Excel, Postscript, LIT, and even audio format
- See all sorts of detailed information on who is viewing each of your documents, including the geographic locations of visitors and how people got to your doc (i.e., Google queries)
- Publish a document online with its own public URL that will be indexed by Google and other search engines and be read by a lot of people
- Embed a long or complex document in your blog or personal webpage
- Convert a document to an mp3 that you can listen to on your iPod
- Bulk upload files (that’s right, storage is unlimited!)
- Receive “likes” and comments on your documents
- Choose among a variety of copyright licenses for each of your documents
- Discover documents related to your own using our similarity algorithm
- Analyze the text of your docs (how does your sentence length compare to the Scribd average?)
- Browse popular documents using view counts, likes, tags, our similarity algorithm, and other ways that let you find content that is interesting to you
What will all these features cost you? Nothing.
If you have family documents, stories or sketches you’d like to make available online, this may be your solution. Take a look and see what Scribd can do for you.
