Julianna
If you have ever given a conference talk, led a seminar group, or even hosted a meeting with accompanying PowerPoint presentation on WebEx, you have probably heard the request “can we get a copy of your slides?” Sending a large PowerPoint file via email and ensuring you have locked editing rights can be a bit of a pain, and not everyone has access to a web expert to upload your presentations directly to your website. You will be happy to know that someone else has already solved this problem for you.
SlideShare is a great online application that lets you upload and share PowerPoint presentations (or Keystone for Mac users and OpenOffice presentations for those of you who are open source minded). Back when the company launched in October 2006, Techcrunch hailed them as Powerpoint and YouTube combined. PowerPoint presentations showcased in a YouTube interface, a perfect solution to sharing with or showing to a group.
Presentations are hosted online and you can provide a unique URL for each of your slide shows. You can tag your presentation for others to find it online, and choose favourites or get inspired by other members. SlideShare also allows you to imbed your uploaded presentation into another website or blog, so that you can host your presentation on their site, but make it available anywhere.
One possible drawback is that all files have to be made public and are searchable by the SlideShare network. Not a huge deal by and large, but it may make you think twice before you add any slides with financials or confidential company data.
SlideShare recently added a new feature to make their application even more powerful. Slidecasting allows users to sync a PowerPoint presentation with an mp3 file.
Slidecasting is a new multimedia format for viewing slide decks synchronized with an audio file. It is for conference talks, musical slideshows, audio picture books or whatever else you can imagine.
Slidecasting is like a PowerPoint presentation crossed with a podcast, and it provides an excellent free option for online demos – without large scale, expensive (and often clunky) applications. Best of all it’s free, and doesn’t require plugins or players like Java and Flash. Slidecasting takes Slideshare even further down the PowerPoint + YouTube path, and offering a versatile tool for sharing ideas.
Hi, I was wonderning if you could load a slidecast onto a CD Rom – off line? If so, what file format would you use so recipients could play it with ease??
Thanks