6 Ways to Share Your Documents Online

This is a guest post from Srikanth, who writes at Tech Inspiration about tips, gadgets and technology. For more, check out his profile on LinkedIn.

The increased capacity for document sharing online enables users to share their work among many people, in ways much easier than in the past. Moreover, others can find relevant information from the original work of the contributors.

Document sharing sites are really helpful for large organizations, schools and universities; even small business organizations can represent their clients using these services.

You can read the submission from millions of users and most of the sites support various document formats such that users can view the documents directly within the browser.

Here are a few of the best online documents sharing sites worth checking out.

Scribd

Scribd is one of the most popular document sharing sites, with millions of users, and the site clams that over 50,000 documents are submitted to it daily. You can find documents in various languages. You can upload your documents easily – all that you have to do is create an account and upload your file, select the category in which you want to place it, and give tags for easy search. You can also email the URL of the document to your friends directly from the site. You can mark your document as private if you do not want to share it with others, otherwise your document can be seen by others.

You can find hundreds and thousands of templates in this site which you can use to create your own document. You can also place your document for sale in this site such that when a user reads a sample of your document and buy it directly. The ipaper allows you to read any kind of document in any format easily such that you do not have to download it to read. You can also upload multiple files at once not only that you can upload files by giving URL of the file. You can view the stats of your document, too: like how many users have viewed it or download it such that you can know the popularity of your work.

DocStoc

DocStoc is another popular online document sharing site, where you can share your documents with your friends or public for free. All that you have to do is register with the site and upload the document. You then have two choices: one for public and one for private. You can share your document in public such that anyone can view your document or upload in the private such that no one can view your document unless you share a private URL with someone.

You can browse through about 3 million documents in various categories in the public domain. If you are not sure about how to create a document, you can browse through the legal documents category and see the documents present for a layout to create your own. There are many other types of documents such that anyone can find something useful in this site. You can also use this site to store your documents online such that you can view them anytime and from anywhere. You can also make some money through Google Ad sense by sharing your documents on this site.

Slideshare

Slideshare is much like the others, but you can share only PPT presentation and word documents on this site. You can upload the documents directly from your computer or give a URL of the documents to upload it to slideshare – then you can choose to make it public or private. You can also see the stats of your documents directly, like how many views and downloads your documents has gotten. All the documents and presentations are nicely organized such that users can find the relevant document by entering the keyword.

This site is very useful, especially if you want to make presentations. You can view thousands of presentation, and you can follow or start chat with users on this site. Once you have uploaded the documents or presentation on this site you can get a HTML code to embed it on to you site or blog or share it with others.

Gazhoo

Gazhoo allows you to share documents with others, and it is really useful if you want to buy or sell your documents to others. Users can view about half of your document on the site; if anyone wants to read the full presentation, they can buy the document from the seller. Gazhoo will get 40 percent of the revenue and the seller gets the rest: 60 percent.

This way, you can share and at the same time generate some revenue on your work. By the quality of the work you can decide the price of the document. For example, you can sell the document for as little as a dollar, which will drive more and more buyers to your document.

Google Docs

As well known as Google Docs is, it’s still overlooked as a place on the Internet where you can share you documents with others. This service from Google also allows you to create documents, presentations and spreadsheets online. After you have finished your work or uploaded a document to Google Docs, you can invite others to collaborate with you. Collaborators can view and edit the document that you have shared while the viewers can only view the document.

Having many users can add value to the document by encouraging collaboration with one another. There is also a template gallery where you can find different formats of documents, so that can get an idea how to edit documents. If you want to create a strong resume that perfectly represents you, then you can search for various resume templates and create one for yourself.

Zoho Share

Zoho Share allows you to share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF files and many other file types. You can create an account with Zoho, or login using your Google or Yahoo account. Uploading files is very simple, and you can choose to keep the file public or private. If you keep your file as public, anyone can view the file and it can also be searched by using search engines like Google.

You can view the documents directly in the web browser, and anyone can comment on the document. You can also get HTML code of the document to embed it in your site or email the link to your friends to share it with them. You can also create documents using the Zoho tools and share them directly from there.

What’s your favorite way to share documents online?

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