Introducing SlideShare Community Guidelines
Aug 26, 11:24 pm PST
As SlideShare has grown, we’ve felt the need to formalise the unwritten rules that shape a healthy community. While we think the community guidelines we’ve come up with are reasonably complete, they may be edited later for clarity or to explicitly add something.
For now they are listed below and later this week they will be linked on the main site too.
Presentation Tennis - Freesouls style!
Aug 26, 05:24 am PST
What started as a slideshow about Joi Ito’s Freesouls project is quickly turning into a Slideshare meme!
To help fuel that, we’re kicking off a round of presentation tennis based on Freesouls. Thanks to Oliver Ding for the fantastic idea originally and the effort to get this started!
- Create a slide with a picture of yourself and a short note about Freesouls or your thoughts on it.
- On a second slide, invite three of your friends to join in by putting down @userid or their names.
- Upload it to SlideShare, tag it with “freesouls” and be sure to enable downloads!
- Add it to the Freesouls group
We’re going to take all submissions until we reach 100, so add yours quickly! Join the group and free your soul today! :)
Indezine Presentation Templates on SlideShare!
Aug 25, 05:11 am PST
Indezine, an extremely popular website with news, tips and information about presentations, created an account on SlideShare a couple of months ago and has now uploaded over 2000 presentation templates!
Geetesh Bajaj, the powerhouse behind Indezine, has painstakingly created all of these templates and has made them available for free on SlideShare.
Check them all out here or take a look our picks spotlighted today on the home page!
Could Wally win the World’s Best Presentation contest?
Aug 25, 04:06 am PST
Dilbert, ubiquitous in offices around the world, last week ran a strip that we particularly enjoyed!
Contest voting over: Who will win?
Aug 18, 01:22 am PST
Just wanted to drop a quick note that the voting for the World’s Best Presentation Contest got over on the 14th of August as scheduled. This has been a gorgeous contest - 2561 entries with 22744 votes cast. We’ve had contestants from over 120 countries spread across 5 continents. And to think that the contest is going on while the Olympics are being held in China - it couldn’t have been better.
You’ll need to wait a few days more to know who the winners are. The entries are being examined, the votes are being counted and the judges have gotten together into their huddle… Lets see what their decision is going to be. Stay Tuned….
Any guesses who the winners are going to be - First, Second & Third prizes???? any takers ?
August 14: Last day of voting in the World’s Best Presentation Contest
Aug 13, 09:19 pm PST
Today is the last day for voting in the World’s Best Presentation Contest. Voting closes 12:00 PM PST. We are in the home stretch now. We hope to have the results for you within a week of closing (we’ll try sooner).
We have again been receiving complaints of voting misdemeanors during the last few days. Be rest assured - once voting gets over we are going to go over the voting data with a fine eye and weed out any irregular voting patterns. In case there is evidence that some entries have been purposely voted up, they could end up getting disqualified as well. Also, remember that the end result is really dependent on the judges (not the votes!).
Lets hope the contest a successful closing!
Slide Tips: The New Universal Language - Rich Moran
Aug 12, 03:31 am PST
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There is a new universal language. It crept in sometime between the advent of the first fax machine and the death of the pager that we wore on our belts.
A quick quiz of most people about the universal language will generate responses like:
- A kiss. It is the global signal of love although there are very few with whom I want to communicate with this language.
- The middle finger. Everyone knows what it means and it is not good to be the recipient of the message so this language carries some unfortunate baggage. It is a language that almost always makes someone feel really bad.
- English. Since most Americans speak no other language, we have imposed this language on the rest of the universe.
- Music. A preferred language by all but now that MySpace has bazillions of bands and artists on it, there are too many dialects of the language. Which is better, Bach or Beastie Boys?
- Food. Before salmonella, South Beach Diet and going vegan, this was a good language. Now it seems cluttered with too many celebrity chefs telling you how to communicate in this language
- Money. Once the banks, the dollar, the stock market and the price of oil recover, this could be a good language again. In the meantime, money is an inconsistent language.
Olympics on SlideShare!
Aug 7, 06:13 pm PST
Its 080808 (Aug 8th, 2008) - its the first day of the Olympics! I remember watching the Olympics on TV for hours as a child. Its one of the few world events that gets millions of people excited. This time, I will be watching TV of course, but I am also watching the Olympics on SlideShare. Its exciting how many SlideShare users are sharing slides about the Olympics. If you have pictures to share, please upload them to SlideShare (here is a handy guide on how to make a pictue slideshow in under a minute). Remember to add it to this group about the Beijing Olympics.
If you are in China for the Olympics, drop in the comments. And if you are not lucky enough to be in China, then enjoy vicariously through this slideshow below!