Nowadays appear daily many startups who offer gateway to knowledge for teachers and students worldwide and for this reason I launch CRED ( Curation Restart Education ) Project http://credproject.visibli.com/share/SkZjmz , just like . I chose to write now about gr8 tools and apps to unleash the power of your documents . If you like these tools and apps share, leave a comment and also you can repply here with other tools like this .
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1 . Docstoc is the premier online business for the best quality and widest selection of documents used to start, grow, and manage your professional life and small business. Docstoc provides the platform to upload and share documents with the world, and serves as a vast repository of free and for purchase legal, business, financial, technical, and educational documents that can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded.
also provides technology through various APIs and Widgets to help facilitate the sharing and promotion of documents across the web. The site has popularized the use of embedding documents throughout the blogosphere and mainstream media
Calaméo is a tool that instantly creates interactive web publications and offer you a new publishing method that has an incredibly wide variety of options and is simple to use. From a PDF file, you create magazines, brochures, sales catalogs, annual reports, presentation brochures...
What is an interactive publication?
It's an interactive electronic document, accessible from a computer and capable of reproducing the feeling of reading a paper document: turn the pages, mark the pages, zoom ... magazines, brochures, sales catalogs, annual reports, presentation brochures
Who is Calaméo for?
For any person, business, association, agency, etc. who is seeking to offer a dynamic and innovative medium that meets the new communication standards
The advantages of an interactive publication
Savings on cost and time for production, printing, sending print copies and logistics. Innovative, original and entertaining communication that immediately catches the readership's interest.
Audience report, readership stats... and other e-marketing features to determine the effectiveness of your publications.
Ease of access and file storage accessible on the Internet at any time
Possibility to create an online press agency
Example
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Doocuments VIP management inteligent documents
Doocuments is about people exchanging VIP documents. Doocuments technology is perfect for sending VIP files through the Internet without being afraid of the final destination or usage of the VIP information. Designed both for individual use or company-wide deployments, #Doocuments is a Cloud Computing tool that integrates seamlessly into user and corporations workflows with a suite of plug-ins for the main office software suites.This software is an office tool such as Microsoft Office, Acrobat Reader or Apple's iWork. However, Doocuments is not an authoring tool to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Currently available authoring tools are excellent and widespread.In particular, Doocuments is an office tool that takes documents already created by different office tools, transforms them and provides new added features that provide special value to those documents. This special "layer" ads to the original document some new features like:
Do not allow to print certain pages.
Do not allow to print certain pages.
Prevent different recipients from viewing those pages.
Set expiration.
Access certification.
Watermarks.
Alarms on documents use (like printing or forwarding).
Analytics.
Why Doocuments?
Context of use: concerns about outbound contents (attachments, documents, etc.) compliance and content security.
Complying with internal email policies
Complying with healthcare privacy regulations and guidelines
Complying with financial privacy regulations and guidelines
Complying with financial disclosure and corporate governance regulations
Guarding against leaks of valuable IP and trade secrets
Guarding against leaks of confidential memos
Guarding against inappropriate content and attachments
MyDocumenta is the new online Platform to create, publish and share multimedia projects: presentations, learning content, magazines and web pages, sharing and reuse of multimedia content.
Documenta is intuitive, fast and easy to use.
Reinvent yourself on the web
Another form of online creation is possible.
From a simple grid, the significant design concepts at the heart of the Documenta interface, together with its powerful multimedia functions, allow you to create new audiovisual languages and narratives in a versatile digital environment, and to adapt them to your needs or those of your target audience.
With Documenta you can reinvent yourself on the Net, and reinvent the Net the way you want it to be.
Share your libraries and projects
Documenta offers an open, secure space so that the entire community of users can experiment, create and innovate in their projects, share audiovisual resources and collaborate in network mode with others from their own group, city or country or anywhere in the world.
Semantic Editing
Features :
Unlike traditional word-processors, Substance focuses on content, by leaving the layout part to the system, not the user. Because of the absence of formatting utilities, it suggests structured, content-oriented writing.
Collaboration
Substance targets open collaboration. Readers can participate and comment on certain text passages. In future they'll even be able to submit patches, that can be applied by the owner.
Integration
WRITE
Write and annotate documents right in the browser.
Collaborative Editing NEW!
Invite co-authors to your document
Export NEW!
Export to PDF, ODT, ePub, etc.
Publish
Publish and instantly share your articles
Images
Embed images in your document
User Comments
Comment on content fragments
BROWSE
Find and read relevant documents by using novel navigation techniques.
Use the Browser Tab to search for a keyword or show recent documents.
Search by Keyword
Find relevant documents based on keywords
Faceted Browsing
Filter matched documents using faceted navigation
wepapers is a place where students (and everybody) can expand their knowledge and share their wisdom, for free. Wepapers help people learn from one-another. The idea is simple: we think everyone has something to teach, and anyone can become a teacher, a guru or a mentor.More important, we believe everybody deserves the right to learn for free.wePapers is where you find the kind of quality information you wouldn’t find anywhere else on the web, the kind of papers you’d have to dig for in dusty library basements and still not find what you’re looking for.wePapers is also where you share what you’ve learned, with people who are learning the same thing. You can discuss your work with them and get useful feedback.
Whether to help you graduate with honors or just win an argument, we created WePapers to help make you smarter, much smarter.
The founders of wePapers realized through their studies for their B.A. degrees that acing school doesn’t have to involve agony. We started wePapers as two university students, with the ambition to share what we’ve learned and learn what we haven’t yet.
We want to make an impact on the way people learn acquire knowledge, and help make the world a little bit cleverer.
myebook.com aims to revolutionise the way we create, publish and share ebook content online. Built on a feature-rich social platform, complete with powerful, browser-based, builder software, and a slick reader environment, there's never been an easier way for anyone and everyone to 'get it out there'.
With myebook.com, we've made it possible for anyone to upload, or create from scratch, beautifully simple or adventurously complex page designs and covers online, in no time. What's more, you can publish your book with a single button and release it to the world before the (virtual) ink's dry! You can create as many publications as you want. And it's all free.
myebook, currently available as full-featured beta release, is a culmination of over 2 years research and development. The result is a slick, polished product that harnesses key internet technologies in a way never seen before.
Add to this myebook's powerful yet simple user interface and you have the ultimate ebook platform for any personal or corporate publication, whether it's for novels, childrens books, magazines, comics, photo albums, leaflets, brochures, instruction manuals. You can even embed or link to videos, audio, documents, images and flash files to make your books fully interactive. And what's more, since the whole myebook system is community-based, getting your word out to your audience is easy.
The team behind the project are all seasoned developers, designers, writers, marketeers and are continuously adding features and enhancing the myebook experience as they approach their next milestone release
Document Publishing
You can upload any document less than 10 Mbytes in size and in .txt, .pdf, .doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .xls, .xlsx and .odt formats (maximum 25 files at a time). Typical documents include: brochures, leaflets, white papers, case studies, press releases, data sheets, specifications, operating manuals, annual reports, certificates, and the list goes on. Ensure document titles reflect the content of the document to increase rankings on Google, Bing and Yahoo
Applicable Pricing Plans: All
Document Distribution and Interactivity
Anyone can distribute documents to a large email list (Email this) or Bookmark to nearly over 300 popular web applications including Facebook and Linkedin. For auto-tweeting, set Twitter details prior to publishing. Click Full Screen to read online or Download for offline. Anyone can embed relevant document thumbnails (or the flash documents) on their websites, blogs and newsletters to increase click rates. Two clicks (Write to Publisher) allows the Reader to communicate directly with the Publisher of the document.
Rate documents you like. Leave comments for others to see. Tag to increase overall visibility. Publishers, EDIT your documents to add a link to your website
Channels
Company Profiles give you control over how your documents are presented to the world. It provides a highly interactive environment for anyone to engage with you, especially potential customers.
Documents uploaded by employees are presented fully categorised with their positions determined by the level of engagement.
Key documents can be displayed in promotional area at the top of the page. Quick statistics show how much interactivity there has been. Anyone can Bookmark the Company Profile to nearly over 300 most popular web applications including Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook thereby increasing engagement.Company news area can be used to embed your latest video. RSS feeds can display your twitter stream or feed from your own website.
Built in private messaging allows anyone to contact employees direct without third party intervention.
Privacy and Document Control
You can now control who you share your documents with. You can decide to keep your documents private, share with colleagues from the same organisation, share with buddies or with one or more of your groups. You can also decide what information you need when others view your documents, from anyone to those who have given us consent to release their email addresses to you.
Document Intelligence
TRACK: You can now view online and download details of every hit your documents had from date and time to where the traffic came from, what activity they performed from downloading to embedding, and more.
LEADS: You are then presented with a downloadable list of identities of individuals who viewed your documents.
ANALYTICS: Analytics show traffic distribution.
Track, Leads and Analytics are available for each document, each employee or user account and company profile.
Linking with Salesforce.com
Those who have subscribed to Salesforce.com, can now export sales leads by simply entering your access details
Leads can be exported at document level, employee or user account level or company profile level.
Applicable Pricing Plans: Business Essential and
9.Issuu is the leading digital publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of magazines, catalogs, and newspapers. Millions of people have uploaded their best publications to create beautiful digital editions.
Explore a world of publications by people and publishers alike. Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best.
10 . YUDUfree is one of the world’s top free online publishing sites. It is popular with both publishers and readers who can find interesting publications to read for free or purchase items from the YUDU Store.
Features
Documents, podcasts and pictures can be uploaded, kept in libraries, shared with friends or family (either publicly, shared with password access or kept private). Users can set up groups to share content. Groups can be open, moderated or private.
Publications can be easily embedded in a blog or website using the YUDU tools.
Content is hosted indefinitely, although items that have not been read or opened in over a year will be taken down after the user has been notified and had the chance to keep it.
YUDU is family and school friendly with up to 1,000 publications posted each day from over 75 countries worldwide that have to comply with YUDU’s strict rules on copyright violation and material that could incitement violence or contains explicit sexual content.
The YUDUfree service is used by charities, schools, small and large publishers experimenting with digital editions but principally by private users who want to publish to the world.
Professional publishers using the YUDU Publishing Platform can easily add publications to the YUDUfree site to increase circulation and reach new readers.
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