The big Issuu
Issuu is a free and open ‘living library’, constantly being updated and rated by the public. It is an online portal to all the publications you’d normally find in print, and more. From magazines to catalogues to documents in every category under the sun, you can find anything from News and Politics, to Film and Music, or to just plain Weird and Bizarre. You can use Issuu to find and collate documents, categorize and organize them in your own personal online library, and share these publications with your friends, other businesses or publishers. You can comment on other people’s publications, follow what your friends are viewing in their libraries, and recommend works to your friends and the public.
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Better still, you can use Issuu to publish your own content in a slicker, modern way. There are 3 types of presentation modes – magazine layout, presentation layout and paper. Publications can be printed, downloaded as PDF’s or embedded into your website/blog/MySpace or FaceBook page. You can even customize the ISSUU viewer completely and integrate it into your website. Once you have grown your own library of published documents, you can see how many people are viewing, bookmarking and linking to your publications, and where in the world people love you the most.
Issuu is a phenomenally quick and easy way to publish your designs/presentations/writing, and get people talking about your content. It is also provides a simple means to collate and organize all your content in a single online library, where you can share it with anyone from friends to clients.
Great site to exhibit whatever you want to – beautiful pics make it appealing if a bit slow. Everyone’s giving it a go, from photographers displaying their porties, diving trip guide books, to Britney Spears. But tell me – how do you get your offering into ‘Most popular’ on the home page?
I have used issuu i think it really awsome idea, especially if your trying to get your stuff out there for people to see, giving your work tags also narrows down the search, so people will find exactly the right stuff that is relevent to them.