We have fixed the bug that was preventing multiple YouTube videos from playing smoothly inside a presentation. Many users have complained about this… this problem should now be gone.

The YouTube embedding feature has been enhanced as well- the videos will now autoplay on reaching the video slide. To see this in action, check out this presentation (contains three YouTube videos)

For more videoslides, go here.

Sorry folks, working on getting the site up again. Something in our magical black box seems to have stopped working.

One hour later: Its back to normal… no worries… just a temporary glitch.

The Fuze Tell a Story Contest has winners!

Grand Prize ($5000)
The Grand Prize goes to Drunkenomics - The Story of Bar Stool Economics from slides2407. Drunkenomics = Drunken + Economics and its a great story about tax & tax cuts. slides2407 also has a behind-the-scenes account of how Drunkenomics happened. Check out The Monday That Never Saw The Night - Story of making of Drunkenomics.

Congratulations slides2407! This is well deserved.

Four Category Prizes (iPhone + $100 iTunes card)

Best Design: This goes to Super Cool Dudes from amv8192

Best Story Telling Ability: This goes to The Story of H from LubomirP

Best Use of Multimedia: This goes to White Shaka - Graphic Novel from AlanBrody

Most Popular: This goes to Let’s Talk Poverty from dcaron

Big thanks to our awesome judges: Ann Handle, Don Tapscott, Om Malik, Pete Cashmore & Tony Hsieh.

Thanks to the contest sponsors, Fuze Meeting . We had a great time working with you. If you have not already, go give the Fuze meeting software a quick try.

We just rolled out the ability to import and share documents from Google Docs on SlideShare. For now we support importing presentations, documents and pdf files. Just follow the steps outlined below to share your work on SlideShare:

1. Make sure you are logged into your SlideShare account before trying to import documents from Google Docs.

2. Click on the “Upload” link on the navigation bar at the top of the page.

3. Click on the “Import from Google Docs” link on the upload page.

4. Enter your Google Docs credentials so that we can go and get a listing of your documents from Google.

NOTE: We do not store your credentials.

5. Almost done… you should now see a list of documents retrieved from Google. Next, you select the ones you want to import and choose the privacy settings that suit you (private or public). Once you’ve made your selection just click on “Import to SlideShare” and we take care of the rest.

We have been testing it extensively but there may still be some bugs or conversion issues, so please let us know via our feedback form: http://www.slideshare.net/feedback

Thanks to everyone for their stories. We received more than 2500 entries to the contest! We really appreciate all the hard work you put into it. The five judges Ann Handley, Don Tapscott, Om Malik, Pete Cashmore and Tony Hsieh and going over the entries to choose winners. We will be declaring the results very soon.

Stay tuned. We will also be sending information about your free Fuze Meeting accounts to everyone who submitted an entry. You should receive an email before end of the week.

With the SlideShare application on LinkedIn, it’s now incredibly easy to add videos to your LinkedIn profile. Here’s a quick step-by-step guide:

1. Upload your presentation to SlideShare as usual.

2. Copy the URL of the YouTube video you want to insert.

3. Once your presentation converts, go to the Edit Slideshow and choose Insert YouTube Videos and paste the above URL in the form.

4. Add the SlideShare application on your LinkedIn profile and link your account.

5. Go to the Settings page and choose “Show complete presentation in player”

6. That’s it. Your presentation (with the embedded YouTube video) is on your LinkedIn profile!

So go ahead and add a lot more value to your LinkedIn profile with SlideShare!

(Thanks to Nathan Kievman)

Here’s a quick update on the Fuze Tell A Story Contest. The entry submission date (19th June) is over, so no more entries… they are frozen. The voting will continue as scheduled till the 22nd of June. Just three more days for you to vote for your favorite presentations.

To see contest entries and vote, go here.

We’ve had a huge response so far - app 2500 presentations from across the world have been entered into the contest, with close to 10000 overall votes already. The votes count is likely to rise significantly in the next 3 days… stay tuned.

If you are participating in the contest, ask your friend, family, colleagues etc to vote… you might just end up winning the top prize of 5000$.

Big thanks to the contest sponsors Fuze Meeting.

We have been hearing from many of you who want a few more days to get your presentations in. Now you have till Friday, Jun 19th 1.00 PM PST to enter the contest. Lots of great presentations have been submitted, and we are looking for many more masterpieces to come in.

We will be updating the contest page with the new deadline very soon, but I wanted to let you all know about the extended deadline.

Other dates will remain unchanged: Votes can be cast upto June 22nd, 11.59 PM PST. Results will be announced within 2-3 days after the end of voting.

SlideShare is waiting for your stories. Go work on them :->

(Once again, thanks to our sponsors FuzeMeeting for working with us to extend this deadline)