SlideShare CEO in “The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0″
Nov 10, 10:49 pm PST
Just wanted to share some news. Fast Company has published a list of the most influential women in Web 2.0 and SlideShare’s CEO, Rashmi Sinha (top row, second from left) figures in that list. Check out the FastCompany article here.
This is recognition for SlideShare as well… big thanks to the community for making this happen!
Go & Get yourself a SlideShare Presentation Pack!
Sep 19, 07:13 am PST
We are excited to launch this amazing widget called SlideShare Presentation Pack. This widget will let you display a collection of presentations on your blog (from your tags, groups or events). Very useful for consultants (showcase your expertise), speakers (all your talks in one), conference organizers (a whole conference session/track in one)! Just customize and grab the code.
The settings allow you to choose from a variety of feeds - Featured, Most Viewed, Most downloaded, by group/event, by a specific tag et al. And there are two layout options- the standard “Landscape” and the “Portrait” for blogs with narrow widths..
To get a pack for yourself, go to the widgets page.
Examples below:
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Portrait
The icing on the cake: The Presentation Pack is inspired by a prototype that was built by Chris Heilmann (a UK based SlideShare user and a web hacker in his own rights). Thanks a ton, Chris, for sharing this with the community!
Please participate in the SlideShare user survey (and win a $100 Amazon gift card)
Aug 30, 03:26 am PST
SlideShare is eager to hear from you! We want to learn who you are, how you use SlideShare and how we can improve it. So we are running our first user survey; please take a few minutes to fill it out. Your answers are confidential and will be reported only in combination with those of other respondents. Your completion of the survey will enter you into a drawing to win a $100 Amazon.com Gift Card! 5 winners will be selected and notified via email at the end of our survey period.
To participate in the survey, go here.
PresentationZen seminars in India
Aug 6, 09:22 pm PST
Presentation Zen (Garr Reynolds) is visiting India and will be holding a series of seminars there. If you care about presentations, then grab a seat today. You can find out more about the seminars here or check out the slideshow below.
Can a Powerpoint presentation make you cry?
Jun 27, 01:34 am PST
I don’t think so, but I am proven wrong by this post on the blog Experience Curves. Its a spontaneous account of the author’s reaction to the SlideShare presentation “ Happiness as Your Business Model“. It is from Tara Hunt (SlideShare username “misrogue”, author of HorsePigCow and founder of Citizen Agency) and she has used the Maslows needs hierarchy to justify why companies should incorporate the human drive for fulfillment into their core business business model. It is a stunning presentation, I only wish Tara could add a voiceover to it and make it a slidecast. That would make it even more compelling to the audience on the web.
Experience Curve is not alone in raving about this deck; check out some of the comments on the site
“… This is fantastic! International Happiness Day is July 10, 2008…I’m including this presentation as part of our promo…..”
” I loved it, congratulations!”
“… the sooner businesses get this the better off they will be :)…. ”
“…. i’m stunned by this pres. absolutely epic in it’s complex/simpleness. fantastic……. ”
“……Most probably the best slideshow I ever watched. When I saw 197 slides I first thought: Heck no! But it is easy to breeze through and makes me want to share it with almost everyone I know;-)….”
“….This is really beautiful. Congrats on the simplicity and brilliance wrapped into one….”
This is the deck
The World’s Best Presentation Contest 2008…. your chance to be a global presentation superhero!
Jun 25, 07:45 am PST
We are psyched to bring to you The World’s Best Presentation Contest 2008, SlideShare’s attempt to uncover the Global Presentation Superheroes for 2008. This is a sequel to last year’s contest, and it is bigger and better this time.
There are loads on prizes on offer: First prize- MacBook Air, Second prize- Amazon Kindle and Third prize- iPod Nano. There are six categories and each category winner gets an iPod Touch. Then there are honorable mentions, each of which gets a copy of the book, Presentation Zen. And all winners receive certificates from SlideShare. Check out the contest announcer preso below.
Here are the contest rules and the contest entries.
You can enter your presentation in the contest and people around the world will vote on it. Your presentation could be about anything you love or care for. It will have to be put under one of these categories - Business, Education, Technology, Picture slideshows, Creative/Offbeat & About me. The top voted entries will be nominated to our panel of judges, who will decide the winners. And our judges are the who’s who of the presentation world.
Guy Kawasaki- who does not know him ?? VC, marketing superbrain, presentation guru, entrepreneur, author and most important for us, on the SlideShare advisory board.
Garr Renyolds- presentation design rockstar, author of the blog & book Presentation Zen, popular speaker and consultant.
Nancy Duarte- she runs Duarte Design, a global leader in business presentations and best known for having worked with Nobel Laureate & Former US Presidential candidate Al Gore to develop the presentation that became the Academy Award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
Bert Decker- head of Decker Communications, author and ace business presentation coach, he has been on NBC’s Today Show many times as their communications expert, often commenting on the Presidential debates.
The contest ends on July 31 and the results will be announced one week later.
Screenshot of the details page below
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So what are you waiting for? Rush to enter your preso… this could win you a shining MacBook Air, apart from building up your presentation credentials.
And let us know how you liked the contest, specially its stunning black theme, that Arun (our designer) has labored so hard to create.
How to attribute slides that you landed in your inbox via mass email
May 27, 01:06 am PST
This is kind of funny! I chanced across this slide deck on slideshare today… and the front slide caught my attention; specially the attribution statement - “This Slideshow Originated as one of those Email Messages that “goes around.” Please Help us Locate the Original Image Source(s) so we can Provide Attribution.” Wow! Thats something all of us have experienced - the footloose, orphaned ppts that are emailed across every day in chain mails (aka “Send All in address book”). What if you uploaded some of those to slideshare, or you happened to borrow some ideas or pictures from the lot. How would you attribute its original creators…. lets think of ideas:
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How about - “…slide deck is attributed to the community of mass-mail spammers of the world…may their soul rest in peace..” or “…attributed to the whosoever is the original creator…” or “… attributed to the wisdom of the crowds…..” (web2.0 style). Maybe the folks at Creative Commons could help us in this endeavor. Why- this might turn out to be a new attribution type to add to the ones that CC already has?
Please get your creative juices flowing and add your suggestions in the comments…. we’ll compile a list …
SlideShare to the rescue of people bombarded by 8 MB powerpoints containing heavy pictures
May 24, 05:11 am PST
Check out these tweets…. need we say more?
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Thanks Stan Mazo… using slideshare is environment friendly as well - you save bandwidth & storage costs that would otherwise get consumed with these large ppt files zipping around the internet’s pipes and choking precious bandwidth. Also, your email inbox will be a lot cleaner, you will get lesser email bounce-backs… the benefits are many.
