You can now subscribe to our RSS feeds for any category or sub category. Have the most recent documents uploaded to a specific category automatically sent to the feed of your choice each day.

Click Here to see our full list of categories.

We’ve decided to make our own Docstoc Blog a more prominent feature on our site. Click on the Blogs Tab in the Navigation Bar and you’ll land on our blog page. You can still find and share your own blog on our site. For our part, the Docstoc Blog will focus on:

1.) Product and feature announcements geared towards improving your user expereince
2.) Featuring compelling users and content on the site
3.) Giving all our users a window into our experiences (challenges and triumphs) as a growing start up
4.) Covering a variety of topical legal and business issues for professionals

Stay tuned, a lot more content is on its way to come…

Jason
CEO, Docstoc.com

Happy Holidays to all of you in our docstoc community. Thanks to all of you for uploading your documents, updating your profiles, and leaving comments, reviews, and ratings. And so, without further ado, here are the winners for “Best Document�? for the past week.

Wednesday December 5th - memaw- Jill Kapraun: Contract for in Home Daycare

Thursday December 6th- DarretKing- Darret King: Evaluating Family Budget

Friday December 7th –ivfworld: IVF Study Papers

Saturday December 8th - bamafun- Alisha Wright: Business Card Template Personalize and Print

Monday December 10th - Newcreature52- Steve Herr: Springboard for Survival

Tuesday December 11th - Longboat- Terry H Hill: How Do You Differentiate Yourself from Your Competitors

We’re Giving Away a $50 Amazon Gift Certificate Every Day (until Christmas Eve) to the User that Uploads the Best Quality Document Each Day.

The contest starts Wednesday, December 5th, 2007, and goes through Sunday December 23rd. Winners will be notified daily by email and announced each week on the Docstoc Blog. Winning users and documents will also be featured on docstoc.

For a full list of contest rules CLICK HERE.

The following document charts the traffic of each of the companies that presented at the TechCrunch40 Conference. This review was conducted as of November 24th, 2007.

Muhammad Saleem won the iPod Touch for the week 3 contest. As of Sunday November 18 th at 11:59pm.

Mu was a strong competitor in our week two competition, and then came out blazing in week 3. He uploaded a variety of helpful educational materials including numerous classic literature which you can now find on docstoc.

Here is a brief blurb about Muhammad:

I recently finished my A.B. degree in Economics along with a Minor in Slavic Languages and Literature (with a focus on Russian) from the University of Chicago. i spend most of my free time on various social bookmarking and networking sites, and writing about social media and socially driven content. I am also a social media marketing consultant, working with Advantage Consultant Services.

Having been an international student for 4 years, during which I traveled outside the states multiple times, and now working in the states as a foreigner, I have had to deal with official government documentation a lot, especially with respect to travel, employment, and taxes. In that respect, Docstoc is a godsend for anyone looking for one, comprehensive, and easy-to-use resource for all legal documents and more.

Congrats Muhammad, you did a great job. You can visit his profile by Clicking Here.

Farhan Khan won the iPod Touch for the week 2 contest. As of Sunday November1th at 11:59pm, Farhan had come out of nowhere and uploaded thousands of documents.

Farhan made a strong comeback after being barely etched out by Ryan in week 1, and uploaded thousands of quality legal documents (which are still in the process of being converted).

Here is a brief blurb about Farhan:
“I am a software engineer, completed my MS in Computer Science this year from UTA. I like working on new technologies and keep myself busy by experimenting various stuff on the web. Whenever I am not programming, me and my wife like to visit places for sight seeing and go out for bowling, and ofcourse Doctsoc-ing is one of the latest hobbies.”

Congrats Farhan, you did a great job. You can visit Farhan’s profile by Clicking Here.

You can share and display any document (.doc, .pdf, .xls, .ppt) in your own blog or on any website where you can add embeded codes with the docstoc flash player. Here are some examples of other sites using the player. EXAMPLE 1 EXAMPLE 2

Here is are two examples of how the documents display:

10 Questions to Consider When Starting a New Business - Get more free documents

In order to embed a document onto your website or blog from docstoc:

1.) upload your document to docstoc (you can upload anonymously if you are not logged in); or find a document already on docstoc you want to share

2.) go to the page where the document is displayed on docstoc: 10 Questions to Consider When Starting a New Business

3.) find the embed code on the right hand side of the document display page and copy the code inside the box

4.) You can change the settings of the embeded object. Where it says [ width='670' height='550 ] - change the numbers next to width and height to modify the size of the embeded object. The docstoc embeded object is also automatically set to display related documents, other documents by the user, and stats (download, views, ratings) at the bottom of the embeded object. If you do not want to display those features, make sure to un-check the boxes, before you copy and paste the code. Note, that if the width of your embeded object is not wide enough, then not all the additional features may show, even if they all are left marked.

Try it out today!

Check out Jason’s Interview with Allen Stern from CenterNetworks about Docstoc. To read the full interview Click Here.

Ryan Colwell won the iPod Touch for the week 1 contest. As of Sunday November 4th at 11:59pm, Ryan had just barely etched out the second place runner up Farhan Khan.

Ryan won in part by uploading every IRS tax form. So docstoc is now also your one stop shop for every tax form, very cool.

Here is a brief blurb about Ryan: “I am a tax accountant turned medical student in the last few years. Traveling and moving around the country have kept me busy over that time. Being originally from Wisconsin, I would definitely declare San Francisco my second home.

Currently, I keep myself going by studying and playing anything that is tolerable in the Wisconsin weather. Outside of that I am a normal run of the mill Docstoc fan.”

Thanks Ryan, you certainly set a high bar for the rest of our contestants. You can see Ryan’s profile on docstoc by clicking here

To celebrate our launch we’re giving Away an iPod Touch to the User that Uploads the Most Amount of Professional Documents Each Week.

Docstoc.com is out of private beta, and we want you to upload your professional documents and share them with the world. We’re giving away an iPod Touch each week to the user who uploads the most documents. The contest starts Tuesday, October 30, 2007, and goes through Midnight PST each Sunday night in the month of November

READ THE CONTEST RULES HERE

Docstoc officially came out of private beta on Tuesday October 30th. The site went live with over 7000 users and 12,000 documents.

Docstoc Press Release

Read the Coverage on TechCrunch

Take a look at the new docstoc video tour

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Watch Ben Gleib, star of NBC’s The Real Wedding Crashers, and one of the top stand up comedians in the country, spread the gospel of docstoc through viral videos.

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