Kazaa is to music sharing what docstoc is to document sharing. So instead of making a google search on how to draft your Articles of Incorporation or Business Plan Presentation template, you may find what you are looking for from the thousands of documents uploaded by the docstoc community under legal, business, technology, educational, and creative categories. It’s crowdsourcing and an online storage service too. Supported documents are .doc, .pdf, .xls, .ppt and .txt. You may upload unlimited number of documents (though that may change in the future) as long as you agree that any of your submissions will be pursuant to the Creative Commons license and not protected by copyright or trademark. In so doing, docstoc will be making money from derivative works or services from submitted documents.

In return, the whole community benefits because of reciprocity (though quantity does not necessarily mean quality, of course), marketing (lead generation or to build new professional relationships) and feedback (it’s a social thing).

docstoc is poised to complement your LinkedIn profile, a tool in your professional warchest.