If you are looking for ways to embed documents into your website or business blog, then you might be interested in the solution offered by Scribd - iPaper.
This tool allows you to take Word, Powerpoint and even PDF’s and upload them to your website - in fact there are a host of formats you can upload
I uploaded as an example the details of the forthcoming Association for Coaching in Ireland Masterclass which I had created in Word to see how easy the tool was to use. Check it out below.
Some of the great things about iPaper is that you can:
- upload documents in various formats and then determine how you want them to be accessed for example as a PDF, Word document or text file
- assign a creative commons and license for copyright
- embed adverts into the document
- make the document private or public
- quick post documents to your blog
- email the document to a friend
- bookmark your content and share it to your social networks
- change the width and height of the iPaper document you embed in your website or blog
- create a private group if you want to share documents with a select number of people for example your clients or mastermind group
- it’s free!
SOME POINTS TO NOTE ABOUT IPAPER USEABILITY:
- if you upload PDF’s make sure that they are not password protected
- in the tags, unfortunately you can not add tags that are several words long with spaces between them
- uploading to Wordpress.org, I had to switch off my HTML editor to upload the document here at Biz Growth News
- when uploading a word document, I found the document slipped and therefore it did not come out as I originally formatted it so do make sure that you check your document
- initially when the document was uploaded it looked fine - then for some reason it became unreadable - I emailed the Scribd team but have yet to find out what the problem is.
How do you think you could use iPaper to add great content to your website or business blog so you build your reputation as a great hub of advice and guidance for your clients and prospects?
Perhaps use it to add your newsletter, a sample chapter of your business book, or even your application forms for your training and coaching programmes to your website or business blog?
In summary, it’s a great tool, but has some potential limitations and problems if you are expecting your documents to be available with 100% accuracy and readability as noted in my last comment under “Some Points To Note About iPaper Useability”.
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