World’s Best Presentation Contest is back (and more social than ever)
Aug 3, 10:51 pm PST
The first contest we ever hosted, the first World’s Best Presentation Contest 2007 was an important landmark for SlideShare. We discovered gems like Shift Happens and Meet Henry. The second year (2008), we built on that further and quadrupled the number of entries and votes. This year, for World’s Best Presentation Contest 2009, our focus is on presentations as social media objects that get shared online and passed around.
We have asked judges who are experts on presentations & social media to join us in finding the best presentation for 2009. Guy Kawasaki (gkawasaki on SlideShare) has written a lot about presentations and needs no introduction to this community. David Armano, author of Logic & Emotion blog (darmano on SlideShare) is one of the most popular people on SlideShare - his visual communication style is brilliant. Finally, Padmasree Warrior CTO of Cisco (padmasree on SlideShare) has taken communication by a company to a whole another level. Through her talks, tweets and presentations, she has helped us all think about collaboration.
So please enter your presentations into this year’s contest. Give us the best you can create. First prize is MacBook Pro, second is Amazon Kindle while third prize is iPhone 3G. Go here to learn more and full list of prizes.
As in previous years, everyone on SlideShare can vote. But we have something new this year. To choose the finalists, we will go beyond votes and look at tweets and shares on social networks. So, ask your friends / contacts on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to check out your entry and vote / tweet / share it. This will add a whole new dimension to this year’s contest. The hashtag for the contest is #bestpreso.
Another new this year - if you use the SlideShare app on our partners services - LinkedIN, Facebook & XING, you can get votes from your friends & colleagues on those networks. If your SlideShare.net account is synched with our LinkedIn, Facebook & XING apps, your SlideShare contest entries will show up there with a strong call for viewers on those networks to vote.
We want to thank our sponsors Adobe Acrobat for helping us bring this contest to you. They recently released Acrobat 9 which also helps you create rich presentations and portfolios. They are also sponsoring a special prize (HP TouchSmart laptop) for the best presentation / portfolio created with Acrobat 9. Judges for this category are social media experts: Julie Hansen, COO of Business Insider, Scott Belsky, founder & CEO of Behance, Harry McCracken editor of Technologizer. For the duration of the contest, you can upload A9 presentations directly to SlideShare. Go here to learn more about the A9 prize.
Best of luck with your entries. The entire SlideShare team is waiting to see your work.
Aug 4, 1:57 am
Hello Rashmi/Slideshare team,
Great to see this happening.
You may want to edit the terms and conditions on the contest page. It seems to be copy pasted, and the prizes inside still read 5000$ and 4iphones, which were for the storytelling contest.
Looking forward to participate,
-@
Aug 4, 2:12 am
Thakkar,
We did change that… pl check now.. this might be due to caching…
Let us know if the updated one still does not show up…
Aug 4, 7:35 am
May enter this year.. But on what topic?? hmm
– Lee
Aug 4, 11:02 am
Can you provide links to previous years winners in one place for us “newbies”?
Aug 4, 6:32 pm
Contenidos de texto
Aug 4, 6:34 pm
Presentación
Aug 4, 11:55 pm
Great News Once Again!!!
Aug 5, 12:02 am
Another chance for slide share users to have great entertainment and chance to win exiting prizes
Aug 5, 12:05 am
Let’s see who wins the prizes now very exiting entertainment brings up by slide share
Aug 5, 1:31 am
I Think That is not So Much Hard For Anyone alse which started by SlideShare.
Thanks again for the Slide Share Team to give us a whole new exciting way.
Aug 10, 2:35 am
Yup, now everything’s looking fine.
tx
Aug 11, 5:58 am
Well slideshare again turns to an exiting contest
Let’s see who wins that…
Thanks for the entertainment as well
Aug 13, 12:19 pm
Thats good to see, Intesrestign how it will go on.
Aug 13, 4:01 pm
Hi
Just a quick question. Ijust read about this contest and uploaded my presentation but without realising i wasn’t logged in, shoul i upload it again when logged in and is there anyway i can delete the one i uploaded as a guest?
Aug 17, 2:57 pm
Very good!!
Alex
Aug 18, 12:10 am
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Pakistan
Aug 27, 12:06 pm
Great nice to hear it. I have uploaded my favourite Green IT Presntation do vote for me.
http://www.slideshare.net/leozalki/green-it-world-leo
Cheers,
Leo Victor
Aug 28, 4:01 am
Thanks again for the Slide Share Team to give us a whole new exciting way.
Sep 5, 6:20 pm
Couldn’t find the “Enter Contest” checkbox on my slide show edit page to enter an existing presentation. What am I doing wrong?
Sep 8, 4:52 am
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Sep 8, 7:15 am
I regularly use slideshare in my blog http://www.arkamonline.com please visit,… Thanks….
Sep 13, 7:34 am
Buenos dias les agradezco por tomarme en cuenta en esta excelente pagina asimismo tal como me lo solicitan les envio mis datos.
Con el aprecio de siempre hacia uds me des`pido siempre con la felicitacion por la excelente pagina que vosotros dirigis
Sep 21, 2:32 am
hello,we regularly use slideshare ,but Couldn’t find the “Enter Contest” checkbox on my slide show.
Sep 21, 8:01 pm
Como posso me cadastrar para ter acesso aos downloads de materiais acadêmicos.
Sep 27, 3:37 am
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Sep 27, 11:32 am
Great to see how it will go on!
Oct 1, 6:22 am
Estoy de acuerdo de participar ya que he dedicado bastante de mi tiempo a componer mis presentaciones tratando siempre de superarme y de aprender siempre algo mas para asi llegar a un objetivo de que la gente disfrute al ver las mismas y ademas gracias a la página por permitirme publicar mi material.
Oct 3, 5:27 am
Hi everyone,
Great to hear it. Slideshare gives us exciting ways toimprove ourselves.
I’m a newbuddy.
Please have a look at my new slide. Link is http://www.slideshare.net/vaishnaviRagunathan/ten-tips-to-become-a-better-listener.
Let me know your feedback at your own convenience.
Thanks & regards,
Vaishu.
Oct 5, 5:21 pm
You guys cannot be serious about this as a compelling way to communicate! This is wacked out flat nothing. You want to see what this is supposed to be like, download my “web video” ppt. on my “box” app on my linkedin profile.