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LinkedIn Sells SlideShare for eBook Publishing Platform Scribd

Social Media Today

LinkedIn has sold off its presentation platform SlideShare, which it acquired in 2012, to eBook publishing platform Scribd.

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The Assumptive Close of Facebook App Registrations

Direct Marketing Observations

I wanted to download a report that was on Scribd but I needed to Login/Signup. But upon further investigation of signing up via Facebook, I see that Scribd will access the following data below. What if I don’t want Scribd to send me emails, post to my wall, access my networks, my user ID and a list of all my friends?

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Scribd If there are written works, such as documents, eBooks, and use cases, that you want available to your team or customers, Scribd is the way to go. Scribd allows people to read a piece of writing, share it with others, and provide comments on it. What do you think will be seen in 2010? Good list, use most of the tools.

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10 Winnable Ways To Increase Blog Traffic (That You Haven’t Thought Of)

Small Business Mavericks

Take several of your most popular blog posts, convert them into a PDF file and distribute it through Scribd and Issuu. Sponsor a contest and offer to give away a product or service to the winner. Answer questions on Quora. Host a free Webinar to discuss a topic of essential interest to your target audience.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #29

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10 Business Models That Rocked 2010 - scribd. As we move into a world where machines watch--and try to optimize--our every move, will malls, banks, and employers start trying to optimize our lives? This piece in The New York Times might be a peek at tomorrow's 'optimized' dystopia." " (Alistair for Mitch). avinash kaushik.

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2011 PR Trends – Unlock and Socialize Existing Content

Proactive Report

One way to do this is to publish your content on social platforms like Scribd, Slideshare, Docstoc and Issuu – they all have over a million unique visitors each month. Google Trends shows how searches for Scribd took off in 2009 and stayed high through 2010. Why is this so important?

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Link Building Helps Your Website

Small Business Mavericks

On document sharing sites like Scribd , you can upload your documents into a pdf file. It’s actually quite simple and you will be amazed at why you have not used links more. There are a lot of different techniques but the main one is using document sharing sites. They can then be distributed all over the Internet.

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