Linking to files on your blog and making urls smaller

Hopefully, this blog is encouraging you to try blogging. If you would like to share a file, as in the previous post, googledocs can help with this http: //docs.google.com/ You may need to sign up with google. Then, login to google docs, and click upload in the right corner. Browse for the file/s you want to upload from your computer or USB. Once uploaded, click “back to google docs “

If you do not want this file shared, it should read “not shared’ so you are the only one who can access this file. To share a file, click the box next to the file you want to share and click invite people. A box will pop up. I put in my own email address, and then clicked “Add without sending an invitation.” It should send you back to googledocs. Click next to the file, then click Share. Click the box “Allow anyone with the link to view (no sign-in required)” A link will appear. Copy this link.
Now this link is probably very long and may cause problems if you try and insert it into your blog. So go to http://tinyurl.com/ Put your long link in the top box, then choose what you would like the short link to be called in the next box. Click on “make tiny url” – and the new short url to the document you want to share will appear. Use the “tiny url” in your blog to let readers see your file. I obtained some of the instructions above by putting “share” into the google docs Help menu, so try there for more instructions.