Have you discovered these features yet ?
Oct 5, 08:39 am PST
It’s been about 24 hours that SlideShare went live and we’ve got a lot of feedback, suggestions and feature requests from users. We are looking into those and trying to prioritise. In the meanwhile, here are some useful features to know, if you haven’t discovered them already.
Permalink an individual slide - In SlideShare, you can permalink individual slides and not just the entire presentation. The slide url changes every time the slides advance. So if you want to send your friend a link to the 17th slide of your 35 slide presentation, just copy the slide URL code when you are on the 17th slide and send it over. When your friend clicks on that url, the 17th slide will open directly in his/her browser. The small unit of microcontent in a presentation is an individual slide and we worked hard to isolate it.
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Zoom to full screen view- You will find a “full” icon on the Flash player; this is for full screen slideshow. Just click this icon and the slideshow will start playing in full screen mode. Thats just the way it happens in PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress as well. Note that the full screen option is not available in the embedded players on your blog or website.
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Comments on individual slides- The comments you can make on a slideshow also are at a slide level; its almost like your slides have an individual existence of their own. Again its that microcontent idea.
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Browse slideshow using hand cursor- Whether you are watching the slideshow in the normal mode or the full screen mode or even in the embed mode, you will notice a hand cursor that appears on the left/right part of the slides. This is for forward and backward advancing (on clicking) of the slides.
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Resize the embedded slideshow on your blog- The code that you copy/paste into your blog for embedding the slideshow has values for the length & breath of the embedded player. You can modify these values to ensure that the player fits into your blog’s column width.
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Slide Transcripts- I bet most users haven’t realised this. The text from your presentation is displayed in a text format in the box marked as slide transcript. This will get indexed by Google’s spiders. And so your slides are actually on Google now and will show up in Googles’ searches (once SlideShare is opened for public viewing). Again this is at the slide level, so hopefully people will be able to use google will find the exact slide that is most relevent.
Oct 5, 11:13 am
I would like to see support for Keynote slides or PDFs.
Oct 5, 12:01 pm
this post alone describes key microcontent functionality that allows users to add unique value for their own use and via their blog to others.
I have just received your invitation to test Slideshare and I will be posting my comments via my blog as soon as I have had a chance to put S/S through its paces.
Oct 5, 4:30 pm
I hardly use PowerPoint (must presentations have been Flash, S5, other web content), so I dug out some older ones to test– the functionality is great, especially the abilty to go full screen.
Obviusly the slide builds are not there, nor are the active hyperlinks in the original.
It would be nice to have a pop menu or control to jump to an arbitrary slide (maybe I missed that), though I see I could do some manual URL location edits to fake that.
All in all pretty incredible, and hopefully YouTube is honored by the flattery.
Oct 5, 5:14 pm
Will you let us record audio for our presentations? I want to enable people to listen to my talk in multiple languages, and thus record myself multiple times, synched to slide advancing…
Thanks!
Oct 6, 6:47 am
Will start by saying I just love the interface that you have here! Its simple and un-cluttered! Hope you keep it that way!
Somethings that I think would make this service even better:
1. Support for animated slides. While animations may not be advocated universally, it can be used in many situations to improve the presentation of the content. I think it would be essential to support animations.
2. Similarly, hyperlinks
3. The ability to jump to a particular slide. An option to see something like a slide sorter view would be awesome!
4. The full screen option doesn’t seem to work!
Looking forward to using this service!!
Anand
Oct 6, 10:27 am
I’d like to chime in with the feature request to have the ability in the presentation to have a link to another slide in the presentation. I know you already know this since I’ve been pestering you
But adding my voice to the list. Having just this one feature could allow for branching presentations which would bring a whole new dimension to this application.
I know this is way to early, but I cant wait to see what kind of API you might add onto this.
Oct 6, 12:07 pm
What is the process for embedding the uploaded slideshow in a wordpress blog. Do I just have to copy and paste the slideshow code into a post? I tried that with no luck. What else do I need to do?
Oct 6, 1:09 pm
How about autholinking any URLs in the slide transcript, e.g. if there is a URL on the slide, it is an autolink in the transcript? That’s a simple regexp operation on the code side.
Oct 6, 2:00 pm
I can link the URL, and that will take me to the slide show, but I would like the slideshow player to appear directly on the blog. My html experience is almost non existent so I need something pretty simple and straingtforward.
Oct 6, 4:42 pm
On the HyperScope mail list we branched off into discussion of outliner software and I reminisced about something from the mid-80s, one of the sweetest apps I’ve ever used … Broderbund’s “Thinking Cap”. Sweet, crisp, featureful without being overloaded. Oh, did I mention it was for the C=64? *grin*
I just wanted to thank you for the invite. Looks like you’ve nailed design here … good to see people getting their arms around the new tech.
Oct 7, 5:19 pm
VERY NEAT!!!
Suggestions & Qs
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1) You point out that it’s possible to send the URL of a specific slide (say, # 17 out of 35 slides).
On my Firefox 1.5.0.7 (XP Pro), each slideshow’s URL stays the same for all 35 slides…
How do you “grab” the URL of a particular slide?
2) Add button/field to GO TO a specific slide#…
3) Some Users are specifying Tags with multiple words,
(ie: “history_of_cooking”), instead of 2 Tags: “history” and “cooking”. Bad for Search by Tags…
Add a small [?] with blurb on how to specify Tags,
right NEXT to the field where the Author enters these Tags…
4) Allow active _Hyperlinks_ in slides
5) Allow Right-clicking on a slide for an (optional) popup window w/notes, text, slide explanation…etc.
6) Include the “total number of Slides” for each Presentation, in the INDEX page (http://slideshare.net).
Oct 11, 2:16 pm
How about a simple button for automatic presentation load/play (slide show mode)? Is there a way to do that?
Oct 16, 4:23 pm
Hamid,
There is no way to do automatic presentation load/play yet, but we will take your request into consideration
Oct 18, 1:35 am
Kool features. Waiting to get invited
Aug 4, 11:11 am
This is great Amit!
Shame I did not stumble upon this great site till today.
But one thing I did right away - spot the slide transcript - even before I came here to read this blog.
Great idea and greater execution! Bravo!!!
SRINI
Jan 17, 2:28 pm
I’m really excited about finding this site I think it is really great. I do have one question and maybe it is already here and I’ve missed it but is there a way to respond to a comment regarding one of your slides? Do I just add a comment to the one posted on my site or do I go to the site of the one who posted the comment and leave my response there?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Flagranny
Jan 23, 3:03 pm
I think slideshare is a great service. The fact that you can’t make the embeddable ‘player’ full screen makes it the embed feature useless if your document has small text… Any chance of making that a feature?
Thanks!!
May 24, 11:16 am
Yeah I am loving slideshare as all I think everyone else is but can you please give us an update as to what is happening with the full screen of slides that are embeded.
This feature is really a must as text is really hard to read on some of the slides without being able to enlarge it when it is in a blog.
Jun 22, 4:59 pm
Nice tip that one regarding width and height, tnx!
Jul 28, 12:14 pm
Slide Permalinks are gone and the FAQ provides wrong instructions.
Jul 29, 3:22 am
Alan, while the permalinks don’t show up in the address bar, they still work.
About the FAQ, it is being re-written, but if you could point out which instructions you found wrong, I could make the corrections immediately!
Thanks for the feedback!
Aug 5, 12:22 pm
Lorne wrote on Oct 6, 12:07 pm
“What is the process for embedding the uploaded slideshow in a wordpress blog. Do I just have to copy and paste the slideshow code into a post? I tried that with no luck. What else do I need to do?”
I’m still looking for a way to do this. In the following Wordpress tag, I tried changing the value of 425 with no avail.
[slideshare id=396865&doc=genyweb20-1210364558509716-8&w=425]
Aug 7, 12:52 am
Kristina, that code should work on Wordpress.com. I did look at your blog and noticed that the width of your content area is about 270px. For some reason, Wordpress.com won’t allow the width of the embedded slideshow to be less than 300px.
We’ll get in touch with them to try and fix this.
Aug 22, 9:14 am
Thank you so much Ashwan. At the moment, the post in question is unplished as it looks quite silly to have the video go off the sides of the post. I’m using the Fjords theme and the columns are very thin - it’s a personal design preference and I’ve managed to resize YouTube videos and other images to fit. I’m hoping I can soon do this with SlideShare as I’d like to use this service more!
Aug 23, 8:56 am
I actually paid to unlock the CSS of my wordpress theme and I augmented the column size for the content. But it would be good to know for others for the future!
Sep 5, 3:50 pm
Hi - I uploaded a slide show to another blog I have and it went onto the one above…how do I remove it?
Thanks Sue Alouche
Oct 11, 6:32 am
Hi,
Let me understand this again: Width of my content area should be more than 300px to embed the slideshow successfully?
Oct 12, 6:46 pm
Hi,
Can you explain the format of the permalinks to individual slides? Please.
I can’t find the URL anywhere. I tried in Firefox, Safari, and IE on both Mac and Windows. I don’t see anywhere I can get a link to the individual slides.
Thanks,
Tom
Oct 12, 7:02 pm
Oh never mind, I found the answer on getsatisfaction:
Just put the slide number at the end of the URL.
For example, if the presentation is at:
http://www.slideshare.net/aaa/bbb
then slide 12 is at:
http://www.slideshare.net/aaa/bbb/12
Please please please update your FAQ!
I was getting super frustrated about this.
– a slideshare fan
Oct 13, 12:43 am
@Omron: Yes that’s right. If you have a Wordpress.com blog, it doesn’t seem to allow resizing below a width of 300px.
@Tom: Thanks for pointing it out, I’ll update the FAQ right away!
Oct 23, 8:58 am
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Dec 2, 5:09 am
Nice feature set! Definitively useful.
Dec 17, 7:30 am
Already working on it, thank you!
Dec 18, 8:56 pm
Great tool, guys. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while.
I’m using links the slideshow rather than embedding on my site. It is possible to program the links to launch straight into full-screen mode?
Keep up the great work!
Jul 3, 8:32 am
Permalink doesn’t work on slidecasts….
http://www.slideshare.net/OMGResearch_Chile/twittosfera-chilena-1674802/13
(I’m trying to link the 13th slide, but the slideshow starts at 1).
Aug 20, 12:46 pm
Likewise here - permalink doesn’t work on Slidecasts.