HubSpotTV (from HubSpot- the leading Internet Marketing company) has a podcast interview with Marta Kagan. Marta is a long time SlideShare user and her presentation on Social media is a viral hit. She published the original presentation about a year back (it has a somewhat provocative title “What the … is Social Media?”) and this continues to evoke heated debate/comments besides lots of views, embeds, downloads etc. Two weeks back, Marta published its annual sequel titled “What the … is Social Media? One year later)… this presentation is flying as well.

Here is the video from the HubSpot blog

The discussion also focuses on using SlideShare as a marketing platform. Thanks HubSpot & Marta for this.

Mike Bogle who is an Educational Technologist at the University of New South Wales and writes the TechTickerblog has created an excellent video tutorial about slidecasting. The five minute tutorial gives you a step by step procedure for creating a slidecast. The blogpost is here.

Check out the video

Thanks Mike.. we’ll add the tutorial to our slidecasting help section.

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.

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.

Founder Non-Admissions

View more OpenOffice presentations from Chris Yeh.

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.