Downloadable links

Today, I realized that I don't have any idea at all about how to set up a PDF or, in general, a .doc for being downloaded on a website. First, I thought it is easy to find an appropriate link at the gadget section. It was not the case - at least for the blogger version I am using currently.

As usual, the last solution was to ask my reliable friend and partner Google.

From a website to another and from a question to another I arrived to www.docstoc.com. Here, you can create an account, upload your document and the following link can be posted on your blog for your readers. They have full access to your book or open document.

As my publishing - online and book writing activity - will impressively increase in the following days, weeks and months, I am looking forward for new tips and trustworthy websites.

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Use the right link

I will not have enough of sharing my passion of writing. About everything and, if possible, all over the day, and most part of the night.

The difference when I am writing for the web is that I need and I can to offer more than a couple of words about something. I have the huge opportunities, without bothering the reader too much with extensive and long long, very long, posts, to share an impressive amount of information.

How? Through the links I am connecting and documented my words. And this aspect it is available for any kind of writing. Take, for example, a post about foreign affairs: I don't need to write memoirs about war in Iraq - a random example - as long as I can provide, delicately and discretely, a link to a study about the current situation, or the evolution in the last five years and of the history of the country. Or, if I am posting a link about playground, I can offer to the reader not only my review about the playground, but also the link to the place I am talking about. It is a matter of reliability but also of concision and of interest to offer to your readers information at high standards.

You don't write what you want to write, because you are the master of the words, but you are trying to answer as much as possible to the interests and gaps of information of your readers. And, at the end of your 2-3 paragraphs posts, they are opened many doors and showed many possible paths to improve their knowledge. Or, of course, to react to the information you are posting.

Welcome in the world of dialogue!

On Twitter

While preparing a short presentation for a webinar on Twitter for businesses, I found a couple of interesting links aimed to improve the use and efficiency of this micro-blogging tool.

http://twitpic.com - used for posting pics

http://www.twitalyzer.com - measuring the connection between activity spent and the influence

http://tweetwaster.com - measuring the time spent on Twitter

http://www.twitblogs.com - it's offering you the possibility to post more than 140-character

http://www.twitterlocal.net - is connecting you to local businesses in your area

http://beta.twittervision.com - localizing tweets around the world, via a Google map

http://tweetmeme.com - the hottest links

http://www.whoshouldfollow.com - for finding the last trends in followers

http://www.twerpscan.com/en - for avoiding scams

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/twitter - latest in terms of Twitter news