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

By Matthew Dollinger

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.

  1. Is the site professional looking and allow you to personally brand yourself?
  2. Does it allow multiple document formats?  (i.e. .doc, .xls, .pdf, etc.)
  3. Does it allow the individual to share items both publically and privately?
  4. Does it group/categorize the documents into a workable format?
  5. Does it do a good job of search engine tagging for the individual?
  6. 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.

Filed in: Cool Technology, Google Gadgets, Great other Sites and Blogs, Insight and Innovation, Using This Technology • Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Comments

By Steve on January 7th, 2009 at 8:37 am

Thanks for the review! When you said free online hosting sites, the it guys in my thought of web hosting immediately, but you meant document hosting…. for a sec I thought @ was going to host their sites at angelcities :p

By Bob Darrow on January 7th, 2009 at 9:47 am

Nice! Something of value! I will add immediately. Now, do you know anyone thinking of selling their house?

 

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Matthew Dollinger I would like to consider myself a real estate martyr, but I think that's a little drastic.


How I would like to position myself in the industry is somewhat of a "conduit" between agents/brokers and those continually innovating tomorrow's real estate model. I believe that Real Estate needs to ditch the mentality that it's "more than a business" and truly look to innovative companies, (regardless of industry), and learn from them. It's how we will grow and succeed in this marketplace.


I am constantly looking for new partners that share a passion for learning, innovating and implementing ideas. If you have a thought, idea, or would like to share, simply reach out to me.


Matt