One of our most requested features on the newly launched Facebook App was the ability to add it to Facebook Pages. We are glad to announce that it is now possible to do just that. Just follow the steps below:

1. Make sure you add the SlideShare app to your profile first. Then, goto the SlideShare application’s profile page and click on “more” to display more options. Choose “Add to my Page”

2. A popup will show you a list of pages you currently own or administer. Choose the page you want to add SlideShare to. For this example, we’ll choose “Rockstars Cafe”

3. Goto your Facebook page and click on “Edit Page” as shown.

4. Under the list of Applications available on the page, you’ll see “SlideShare”. Click on the small pen icon next to it and choose “Edit”

5. You’ll be taken to the Pages settings section, which allows you to specify the SlideShare user who’s presentations will sync to the presentations showing on the Page. If you did not install the SlideShare app as mentioned in (1), you’ll be prompted to do so. If an administrator is already set for this page, you’ll be given the option to change the account. Non-administrators will not be allowed to access this section.

6. Once this is done, return to your Page and you’ll see the SlideShare app under the Boxes tab on your page. You can move it to your Wall tab if you want.

Your Facebook Page will stay in sync with the chosen page administrator’s account. Do share your Facebook page URL’s with us after adding the SlideShare app.

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

For presentations lovers everywhere, we have one more contest for you! This time its about storytelling. We are partnering with Fuze Meeting (who have an awesome online meeting product) to bring you this contest.

A lot of you have already been posting stories to SlideShare. This is an opportunity to get that story inside you onto slides. Tell your story in words and pictures. Add audio or video if you want. Just keep it within 30 slides. Your story could be about anything you care about. Yes, we mean anything. Your travels, a story of a friendship. Or the story of your brand or your product. Make us care, make us think.

And what’s the prize for storytelling. The Grand Prize is $5000! Yes, that’s correct. Imagine what you could do with $5000. We have four other prizes for Best Design, Best StoryTelling Ability, Most Popular and Best Use Of Multimedia. Everyone gets to vote for their favorite entries. Judges will choose the winners from the top voted.

Like before we have assembled a star cast of judges: Tony Hseih, Om Malik, Don Tapscott, Pete Cashmore, and Ann Handley.

Rules are similar to previous contests. You have 3 weeks to enter your presentation to the contest (May 26th to June 15th). Voting will go on till June 22nd. And results will be declared on June 29th.

Thanks to Fuze Meeting who we worked with to dream up this contest and who kindly sponsored the prizes! It has been fun working with Brook and Patrick . Go check out Fuze Meeting.

As usual, we have a presentation about the contest (below). Please help us get the word out. Embed the presentation, share it with your friends. Help us reach every corner of the world where people create presentations.

We’re happy to announce the relaunch of the SlideShare app on Facebook. We have completely rebuilt it, integrated the latest Facebook changes and made it more useful.

To add SlideShare to your Facebook profile, go here.

You can create an account on the SlideShare Facebook app and link it to your regular SlideShare.net account. How does that help? Well, once you do that, any presentations (or documents) you upload on SlideShare will instantly be available on Facebook or if you upload them on Facebook, they’ll be available on SlideShare.

It doesn’t end there, of course. If you’ve added the SlideShare app for LinkedIn and linked your SlideShare account there, your presentations will automatically be visible on LinkedIn too!

In fact we strongly recommend you link both your LinkedIn & Facebook accounts to your SlideShare.net account. Once this happens, you have a HOLY TRIAD in place. Upload to any one- SlideShare, Facebook or LinkedIn and it will shows up instantly on all three. Isn’t that really cool?

Using the new Facebook app is a real breeze! We’ve tried to keep the interface consistent across SlideShare, LinkedIn and Facebook, so if you’ve used our app before, it should be really easy to get started with it on Facebook.

With the SlideShare app on Facebook, you can

• Upload your presentations and documents to SlideShare
• Share them instantly with your friends by publishing to your home page
• Comment on or favorite presentations by your friends
• Add a SlideShare box to your profile to display your presentations

If you already had added the app to Facebook, you don’t need to do anything, unless you want to link it to your SlideShare account.

Take a look at some of the screenshots below to see what you can do:

We’ll be adding more features to the app over the next few weeks, so we’ll be glad to hear any feedback from you or if you find any bugs.

To add SlideShare to your Facebook profile, go here.

SlideShare is looking for a Web Designer to join its New Delhi team. Details below….

Job Description

- Web/Graphical Design of SlideShare: GUI, HTML/CSS, visual design of graphic elements (e.g. forms, logos, banners, blog themes)
- Ship products of the highest quality through strict attention to visual and interaction details
- Requires working in tight co-ordination with a top notch software development team

Desired Candidate Profile

- Degree /diploma in Web design, Graphic Design or Visual communications
- 1 to 4 years experience in similar role (preferably in internet/web company)
- Excellent Web design skills: XHTML (through dreamweaver & coding), CSS, Javascript, basic Ajax
- Good knowledge of W3C web standards, tableless layout, cross browser compatability (IE & FF), SEO friendly markup, graceful website degradation
- Excellent graphic design skills using Photoshop, Illustrator
- Basic knowledge of Macromedia Flash animations (using timeline)
- Ability to troubleshoot HTML/CSS design issues using Firebug, browser plugins & developer tools

Bonus Points

- Candidates with experience in designing/coding blog themes (Wordpress/BlogSpot), Facebook or OpenSocial app interface design, widgets, skinnable media players

Send resumes to ‘amit AT slideshare DOT com’ & ‘rashmi AT slideshare DOT com”

We’re quite excited to announce the new SlideShare Mobile website today. Visit http://m.slideshare.com on your mobile phone and you can view any presentation, search through presentations, login to save favorites and even download to your mobile phone!

Impress that client you bump into somewhere by running a quick pitch off your phone! Or review the latest conference presentations you missed while travelling!

This site is still a beta feature and might be a bit rough around the edges, so go ahead, play around with it and send us your feedback. You can even send us feedback from the mobile site.

View the full feature list and FAQs and get started right away.

Update: We’ve noticed that if you’re using Opera Mini that came pre-installed on your phone, the site still prompts you to install Opera Mini once more. This seems to be because the version of Opera installed is older and doesn’t seem to play nice with Yahoo! Blueprint (the framework we’ve used to build SlideShare Mobile)

Next Saturday is PresentationCamp. Come by! (its at the SlideShare offices in San Francisco). Some of the sessions we already have going are:

• How to pitch to VCs (Dave McClure)
• Presentations for non-profits (Beth Kanter)
• What makes for popular presentations online (Rashmi Sinha)
• Integrating Twitter into presentations (Stowe Boyd)
• What is an online presentation? (Nat Robinson)
• Slide makeovers (Rick Altman)
• Compare organization/visuals/delivery for several modes (live, remote-synchronous, remote-unattended) (Nancy Frishberg)
• The Creation Myth – Branding Your Self or Your Organization (Terry Gault)
• Distributing presentations as video (Niall Kennedy)
• How To Turn OC Tendencies Into Excellent Presentations (Jim Meyer)

We are still looking for more sessions (especially smaller workshop / small group feedback type sessions). Please add your sessions to the wiki.

We are also looking for two more projectors. And if you are interested in sponsoring coffee / lunch, drop me a note.

We just released our last and final batch of tickets (go here to register)!

SlideShare will be unavailable for 10-15 minutes while we perform some site maintenance. No presentations will be harmed.

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