How To Use ISSUU to share your publications – Step By Step 1. Go to www.issuu.com and create a free account
2. Click on the Upload button
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How To Use ISSUU to share your publications – Step By Step 3. Use the “Upload A File” to upload your pdf into ISSUU and enter the information fields as required
Choose the “Private “option in Publishing Options if you wish only your target group to discover the link. i.e. your publication will not be visible through ISSUU’s own search.
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How To Use ISSUU to share your publications – Step By Step Example:
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How To Use ISSUU to share your publications – Step By Step Choose if you want people to comment, share or download the publication. It all depends how public you want it to be?
4. Once the uploading is completed it will then “convert” the pdf
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How To Use ISSUU to share your publications – Step By Step 5. Then it will appear in either your “Published” or “Private” bookshelves, which ever you chose
6. Now left click your mouse on the publication image which will create a thin blue box around it and then click on the “<>Embed” link
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How To Use ISSUU to share your publications – Step By Step 7. A new window will open giving you the two options for sharing the publication: a link for emailing and code for embedding into your web site or blog
8. The beauty of ISSUU is you can actually see how many people have looked at your publication on line and find out more about them: The total number of readers, which countries they come from and how many downloads have taken place ( if you set it up to allow them to download that is)
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How To Use ISSUU to share your publications – Step By Step
Other Options: There is other functionality such as embedding whole bookshelves that you can explore later using this ISSUU Platform. To do so is easy. 9. Right clock on the folders tab at left and create a new folder
10. No click on the Private or Published tab to select the publication you wish to place in this new folder 11. Left click and hold the mouse down while you drag the image file into the folder 12. Repeat the exercise to add more publications into this folder
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How To Use ISSUU to share your publications – Step By Step 13. Now right click on the folder name and select “embed”
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