Editing of uploaded slideshows has been temporarily withdrawn due to some technical problems we are facing. This shall be back to normal in a few days. Please bear with us till then.

21st April, 5:00 AM PST: The editing functionality has been restored now…

We just released new features to enable public and private messaging on SlideShare.

Pinging - Ping is a short public message which appears on profile pages. So, now you can leave messages on other people’s profile pages. Just browse to the profile page of the person you want to ping (make sure you are logged into your account) and click the ‘Ping user’ link just below the profile box (as below). Write your message and hit ‘Submit’. Your ping will appear instantly in the Ping box (as below).

There is also a Pings page (as below) where all the pings on a particular user are displayed.

One can choose whether they want to let everyone ping them, or just their contacts by editing their profile.

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Messaging - You can send private message to other SlideShare users by messaging them. Browse to the profile page of the person you want to message (make sure you are logged into your account) and click the ‘Message user’ link just below the Ping user link (as below). Write your message and hit ‘Send’. Your message will be sent as an email to the user. You can choose to receive a copy of the message by checking ’send me a copy’.

One can choose whether they want to let everyone message them, or just their contacts by editing their profile.

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We hope you like these new social features on SlideShare. Keep sending in feedback/feature requests/problems (use the Feedback/Report problem link at the bottom of every page). And thanks for sharing!

We are rolling out a bunch of cool features in Slideshare. This is our biggest release (in terms of features & fixes) since we launched. And we’re excited about it!

Filter slideshows by language - Now you can browse slideshows by language. So, if you just want to see French slideshows, for example, click on the ‘All Languages’ link above the search box and simply choose ‘French’ from the dropdown. This filter is available on all pages (but it will not affect the content on two pages- the homepage and the page where you actually view the slideshow).

From now onwards, when you upload a presentation to Slideshare, you would have to identify what language your slideshow is in. You can also specify a default language (for view slideshows) in your profile page inside your Slideshare account.

For slideshows which have been uploaded to Slideshare till now, we have identified the language on your behalf using some algorithms. However we understand that this might not be perfect. Hence, if you find any of your earlier slideshows having an incorrect language identification, please go to ‘edit your slideshow’ page and set the correct language there.

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Zing It! - Like it? So Zing It! Zinging is our way of letting you vote for a slideshow that you like. You can zing a slideshow when you are viewing it in the slideview page by clicking on the Zing It button next to the slideshow’s title (as below).

Or you can Zing It! when you are browsing Slideshare using the Latest, Featured, Most Viewed etc filters (as below).

Accordingly, the second level navigation now has a Most Zinged tab along with Latest, Most Viewed, Featured, Most Commented, Most Favorited. Thus you can browse the slideshows that have been zinged the most.

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Contacts - With this release, we are taking one step further to support the community at Slideshare. You can now add users in Slideshare as your contacts. Just browse to the profile page of the person you want to add as a contact (make sure you are logged into your account) and click the ‘Add as your contact‘ link in the profile box (as below).

You can also see a user’s contacts by hitting the ‘Contacts‘ link, on the right of ‘Comments’ link.

You can search for users in Slideshare by going to ‘edit‘ your contacts page and then using the ‘User Search‘ box

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Favorite notification - Now, you get an email notification when someone favorites your slideshow. You can choose not to receive emails by editing your profile.

We hope you’ll like these new additions to Slideshare. Keep sending in feedback/feature requests/problems (use the Feedback/Report problem link at the bottom of every page). And thanks for sharing!