I’ve recently opened a Slideshare account and uploaded my first Powerpoint presentation. Like YouTube, Slideshare allows you to syndicate your presentations – presentations can easily be embedded into a website or blog with the nifty Slideshare viewer.
My first presentation ‘The Future of Recruitment and the Web‘ has already been viewed over 260 times in 7 days, so it looks like Slideshare provides a good mechanism for attracting attention to your business. Importantly, it also figures highly in search engine results.
Most small businesses have presentations that they have created for various conferences or training courses – if they contain publicly-releaseable information, why not put these on Slideshare for the benefit of others? When dealing with new clients, it’s great to point them to a Slideshare URL to give them an understanding of your expertise.
Other benefits of Slideshare include the ability to integrate it with Facebook and LinkedIn, the ability to add sound to your slides and run webinars, and the ability to view Slideshare presentations on your mobile device.
Here’s the official spiel from the website:
Slideshare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations.
- Individuals & organizations upload presentations to share their ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses.
- Anyone can find presentations on topics that interest them. They can tag, download, or embed presentations into their own blogs & websites.
SlideShare is the best way to get your slides out there on the web, so your ideas can be found and shared by a wide audience. Do you want to get the word out about your product or service? Do you want your slides to reach people who could not make it to your talk? Are you a teacher looking to share your lesson plans? It only takes a moment – start uploading now, and let your slides do the talking!
Some of the things you can do on SlideShare
- Embed slideshows into your own blog or website.
- Share slideshows publicly or privately. There are several ways to share privately.
- Synch audio to your slides.
- Market your own event on slideshare.
- Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests
- Download the original file
