The wait is over! Introducing private sharing of documents on SlideShare!

Nov 5, 04:43 am PST

This is probably our biggest release to date. Ever since we launched, the most strident feature request from our users has been the private sharing of documents on Slideshare. We’ve had lots of people writing to us about privacy and how it could help them in their work lives. We are happy to bring that wait to an end. It’s taken us a while to arrive at the best way of doing this, but we think the result should be worth the wait.

Slideshare now has FULL FEATURE PRIVACY. And its COMPLETELY FREE!. You get complete control over who, what, how to share! The privacy feature should address (but not be limited to) the following use cases-

- keeping slideshows private to yourself; this comes with complete freedom to switch back and forth between private & public without any restrictions

- sharing with all your contacts

- sharing with only some of your contacts (we have introduced the ability to make user lists from your contacts and share documents only with that list)

- every private slideshow will now (optionally) have a Secret URL; you can send this URL to anybody by email, IM etc (irrespective of whether that person has an account on slideshare or not) and the slideshow will be viewable by him/her

- you can turn off the embedding (embed code) for private slideshows; this allows you to control the virality and propogation of your slides

- you can send business presentations to your clients, customers, office colleagues for private viewing

- you can embed slideshows on password protected websites, company intranets without apprehension about the documents appearing publicly on slideshare

- you can virtually use your slideshare account like an online repository, uploading presentations for public or private sharing; there is of-course no restriction to how many files you can have in your account or any usage/bandwidth limits.

We’re sure there are many other uses that our users will bring out for this much-requested feature. We look forward to them. Do send us your feedback about what you liked (or did not like) about privacy on slideshare.

Posted by amit Posted in Features & Changes

14 Responses to “The wait is over! Introducing private sharing of documents on SlideShare!”

  1. SRINI says:
    Nov 7, 3:44 am

    Great! Congratulations too.
    I can see this is a response to popular demand. Vox Populi, vox dei!

    It is still my personal opinion that privacy feature must be a premium feature earning revenue for you.

  2. Simon Kinsella says:
    Nov 7, 7:25 am

    This is great news - thanks! When can we expect the API to support this new privacy option?

    Simon

  3. jon says:
    Nov 7, 4:20 pm

    We’re hoping to update our API in the next 2-3 weeks. This should include support for privacy, as well as much easier access to public read operations.

    In other words, if you’ve got API-related feedback, now’s the time to speak up! The google group is the best place for that:

    http://groups.google.com/group/slideshare-developers

  4. Dennis Howlett says:
    Nov 11, 4:44 am

    I”ve tried creating a list of contacts but it doesn’t work, I am returned to the same screen every time.

  5. mike says:
    Nov 13, 6:37 am

    Ohh thank goodness!

  6. Rajesh says:
    Nov 16, 6:00 am

    See your usage surge - I will chip in my bit on asking people I know to use it for their internal documents.

    Congratulations and best wishes always!

    :)

    R

  7. laura says:
    Nov 16, 10:32 am

    I can not make the list, I dont have the option to write the e mails! Can you explain us how to do it please?

  8. Michael Sampson says:
    Dec 3, 8:18 pm

    This is a fantastic addition … thank you. Here’s how I used it for planning a conference … http://www.michaelsampson.net/2007/12/how-we-got-feed.html

  9. RAJU says:
    Dec 23, 12:11 am

    Excellent addition… This site has now come of age!!

  10. dATOK says:
    Jan 1, 4:20 pm

    I want to include a PDF format text in my blog. I would like this text to be able to other people so they can click in a word “download text” and download te PDF text. Also I would like to know if I can include a Word doc to be available to download.

    Thanks and sorry if my english is not too good

  11. Marcelo says:
    Jan 15, 1:28 pm

    Thanks for this great service!

    Marcelo

  12. divya says:
    Jan 20, 4:15 pm

    hi
    ke chha khabar sanchhai

  13. geeban says:
    Jan 31, 4:45 pm

    gfhthg

  14. Kilowatt says:
    Oct 18, 7:19 pm

    I can’t create a list of contacts. How do you do this? Where are there instructions?

    Please note that another respondent to this blog asked the same question, and has not been answered since last November (11 months).

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