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$.

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Big thanks to the contest sponsors Fuze Meeting.

You might have already caught these on TechCrunch (in separate back to back articles). We’re sharing both these decks together for those who missed it.

The first of these decks is titled VC Non Admissions. The deck was adapted from a thread on ExpertCEO contributed by a range of CEOs and VCs about the top twelve things you’d never hear a VC say.

The reply came fast. And it was titled Founders Non Admission.

All for friendly, tongue-in-cheek banter.

5:20 AM PST: We’re having an unscheduled downtime for the site. Some technical issues that the engineers are working hard to overcome. Regret the inconvenience.

6:36 AM PST: SlideShare is back up. We had a glitch with our servers which resulted in this unscheduled downtime.

The site is completely back to normal now. All clear!

The Wild Apricot blog has a compilation of 26 of the best SlideShare presentations on “Social Media for Non Profits”. Check out the post here.

This made world news yesterday. See the original bankruptcy petition filed by General Motors below. Use the full screen option to peruse through.

We just thought of highlighting the State of the World’s Human rights 2009 report that has been shared on SlideShare by Amnesty International. Its a 424 page report (shared as a document). Use the full screen option to peruse through.

This is one of our most requested features for SlideCasting.

We are happy to announce that you can now host your slidecasting mp3 audio files on slideshare. You can also continue to host them on an external host (e.g. archive.org) as before. The choice is entirely yours.

Here’s a quick tutorial for how this will work.

For SlideCasting, there is

- No limits to audio file size that you can upload to SlideShare (or host externally).
- No bandwidth consumption limits.
- No limits to the nos of slidecasts you can create in your SlideShare account.
- No music uploads, this is for talks, podcasts, panels and discussions. If you want to synchronize with music, please host it yourself.
- Please upload audio files for which you have copyright. If we get any complaints about copyright, we will respond immediately. (Please read our terms of service):

Hope the community likes this feature. Let us know your feedback in the comments

We’re happy to announce that our relaunched Facebook app has been verified by those awesome folks at Facebook. Facebook rolled out this program yesterday and only a select few from the thousands of Facebook applications have made it to the verified list. We had to work in close co-ordination with the Facebook team to ensure that we satisfy the strict standards for this program. Our app is part of the Business & Finance section of Facebook’s application directory.

If add the SlideShare app to your Facebook profile, go here.

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If you have any feedback, let us know in the comments.