Why slideshare?

Monday, May 20, 2013



SlideShare


About SlideShare

•Touted as the “Youtube for Presentations”

•Community for sharing presentations

•Presentations are uploaded and can be embedded and downloaded by anyone (unless the presentation has been set at private), anywhere (provided they have internet access)




SlideShare supports …

•PowerPoint Presentations

•Keynote Presentations

•Microsoft Office Documents

•Videos

•MP4

•WAV

•MOV ...etc


SlideShare: Advantages

• Provides analytics

• Helps better understand the audience.



• SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

• Attracts the relevant audience



• Embeddable

• Presentation can be downloaded or viewed directly

• Can be linked to various social-networking sites



• Youtube videos can be embedded

• Hyperlinks can be added

• Audio narrations can be added

• “Follow” and “Like” feature

• “Follow” certain people

• “Like” certain presentations


SlideShare: Disadvantages

•Slides cannot be created on SlideShare

•Mac Keynote users have to convert their presentations into PDF before uploading

•Any animation or sound effects included may be lost after the online conversion to flash

•Upgrade to Pro is needed to make presentations private


SlideShare Pro


SlideShare Pro: Advantages

• Tracking of views and downloads is enabled

• Presentations can be made private

• Uploaders are able to control who sees the presentation

• Uploaders are also able to control who downloads the presentation

• Web meetings can be organized


SlideShare Pro Plans

•Sliver

•$19 per month (Annual package - $16 per month)

•Gold

•$49 per month (Annual package - $41 per month)

•Platinum

• -





Why SlideShare?

•Able to share slides without having to download

•Fuss-free

•Be thought leaders by sharing information for people to follow

•Also to follow other thought leaders

•Simple, hassle-free web meetings.

•Private web-based conference meetings

