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Getting your team on the same iPage

I use Word 2007 at home, but many people I work with don't have it yet on their computers. I could convert it to Word 2003, but why bother? One of my new favorite document viewing sites, Scribd, now makes it easy to share documents without worrying about whether everyone on your team has the same software. With iPaper@scribd.com, which Scribd rolled out about a month ago, it's just a matter of adding an extra recipient to your email. Here's how it works. Take your document and attach it to an email. Address it to the members of your team, and CC ipaper@scribd.com on the message. Scribd will take your document, convert it to iPaper, and send your collaborators a copy of the link to the online document. And if you haven't viewed a document in Scribd yet, you're missing out. Scribd supports a lot of document formats, too -- in addition to all Office files (both 2003 and 2007), it will convert PDF, PS, .TXT, .RTF, and open document formats. Don't use this with confidential or sensitive information -- Scribd is great for document viewing, but I'd never recommend it for pure legal work. Still, it's a very cool way to get your collaborators on the same page.

Full post as published by Inter Alia on July 07, 2008 (boomark / email).