Announcements

New LinkedIn profiles make it easier to add SlideShare presentations

by on December 18, 2012

We’ve been working on providing new and exciting ways to add SlideShare content to your LinkedIn profile. Previously this was done with the SlideShare App on LinkedIn, which we are discontinuing in favor of a simpler and easier way to add content. The new LinkedIn profiles will be rolled out during the next month to people around the world. Here’s how to use them.

If you were using the SlideShare App on LinkedIn
As part of the migration, all your existing SlideShare content currently displayed on your LinkedIn profile through the LinkedIn app will be transitioned to the new profile page. Once you opt in to the new LinkedIn profile page, you will see your SlideShare presentations are already there.

If you did not use the SlideShare App on LinkedIn
As part of the new LinkedIn profile, we will be rolling out a simplified experience for integrating rich media content like presentations, videos, and documents. This feature preview is currently available to a limited amount of users and we are rolling it out gradually to everyone in the new year.

View your analytics all in one place
As part of this transition, your LinkedIn profile will no longer display engagement analytics about your SlideShare content. However, you’ll still be able to visit SlideShare.net for detailed engagement analytics on your Slideshare content.

How do you like the new, easier way to add SlideShare content to your LinkedIn profile? Let us know in the comments below.

Haiku Deck + Slideshare = The Fast Track to Slide Stardom

by on December 13, 2012

Slidesharers, you should know that you have totally inspired us. Every time we visit, we discover amazing storytellers and fresh new ways to communicate. We’re often amazed by the beautifully designed decks we find as we browse the site.

We also know that many mere mortals struggle to make their stories look as good as those professionally designed ones. So we set out to make a tool that would take the design hocus-pocus out of the process. We wanted to offer a simple, fun way for anybody to create flawlessly beautiful presentations. The result is Haiku Deck, and we’d like to invite you to give it a spin.

When you try out our free iPad app, we think you’ll be amazed at how quickly you can produce slides that look like they were professionally designed. We’re talking about the kind of slides make you feel like a total rock star. The kind of slides that get lots of views on Slideshare.

That’s why we’re so excited about our new seamless integration with Slideshare. Create your rock-star slides with Haiku Deck, then upload them to your SlideShare account for the fast track to slide stardom:


Uploading Your Haiku Deck To SlideShare

  1. Every Haiku Deck you create generates a web link when you publish it. You can email a deck to yourself right from the app, and then click through to view it on our website. (Be sure to sign in to the Haiku Deck website the same way you sign in to Haiku Deck on your iPad.)
  2. Locate the buttons immediately below your deck, and click “SHARE.”

    3. Haiku Deck

  3. A pop-up window will appear.

Type in your SlideShare username and password, click “SHARE,” and a PDF of your deck will be automatically uploaded to your Slideshare profile.

You can then click through to your deck on SlideShare to add a description, tags, and category, all of which help your great ideas get discovered.

Inspiration
What kinds of Haiku Decks work well on SlideShare? Here are a few ideas.

  1. Create an “About Me” Haiku Deck to make your SlideShare profile stand out, like this one, by Haiku Deck CEO and co-founder Adam Tratt.
  2. Create a Haiku Deck that demonstrates your expertise, like Social Media Distilled, by Janet Fouts.
  3. Create a Haiku Deck summarizing a favorite book or blog post, like How Ideas Take Flight, by Catherine Carr.

For more inspiration, you can take a spin through more examples on the Haiku Deck SlideShare page. You can also check out Powerful Presentations, a Haiku Deck we created to share our best tips for standout presentations.

That’s the Ticket
With Haiku Deck, wrestling with formatting or large files is no longer a soul-sucking, hours-long test of endurance. Instead, you’re free to think of new stories you want to tell, upload more Haiku Decks to SlideShare, and (hey, we’ve done it, too) refresh your profile to see just how much love your rock-star slides are getting.

And if you have a question, we’re here to help–please feel free to tweet us @haikudeck or drop us a line: info@haikudeck.com.

The world is waiting, SlideSharers. Time to set your story free!

Cheers,
Team Haiku Deck

Presentations are part of award-winning strategy – Mark Johnson brings home the BE2 gold

by on October 3, 2012

There have been the Bloggies and the Vloggies, the Emmys and the Oscars, but have you thought of submitting your presentations for global social media awards? That’s what SlideShare community member Mark Johnson FAIA did, and brought home two coveted BE2 awards.

Mark Johnson, FAIABE2 is a social media advocacy organization for the built environment. Founded in 2008 as Be2Camp, BE2 held the world’s first barcamp style event for the construction industry in London. Since then BE2 has organized over 15 barcamp styled events, as well as BE2Talks showcasing thought leaders in the built environment. BE2Awards are currently the only social media awards for the built environment.

BE2Awards are global, and voting is open to the public. We were very excited to learn that Mark received not one, but two BE2 awards for incorporating SlideShare presentations into his social media content strategy. We’ve written about Mark’s approach to social media and presentation content. Now his reach has increased exponentially, thanks to the BE2 community.

Here’s what BE2Awards had to say about Mark’s winning submission for Best AEC PR/Marketing Campaign:

“…(recognizes) the pioneering social media marketing initiatives he completed in 2012 for Formica Group, a global brand in the AEC Industry. His work and collaboration is documented in the presentation ‘Social Media Marketing for the AEC Industry’ at SlideShare.net. This case study will be featured in Business to Business Marketing Management: A Global Perspective, a college textbook by Jim Blythe and Alan Zimmerman, to be released in early 2013.”

and for Best Education and Learning Project:

“…his presentations on SlideShare leverage his years of experience as a designer and marketer to present informative and inspiring case studies and how-to lessons. Void of hype or speculation, Mark provides real world examples of social media at work. Many of his presentations are replicable; they serve as reproducable plans for the AEC professional who desires to maximize online time and effort.”

Congratulations, Mark, and thanks for inspiring the SlideShare community!

Have you won an award for your use of presentations? We’d love to hear about it – please leave a comment below.

We’re fixing slow conversions

by on September 18, 2012

SlideShare dev team to the rescueOur system had a slow Monday so we’re experiencing some longer than usual times in converting your presentations. If you notice that your presentation doesn’t appear right away like it usually does, be assured that it will. If you’ve deleted a presentation, it may take a little longer but it will disappear soon.

This is a temporary situation and our entire development team is busy working 24 x 7 to get all presentations converted, and all deleted presentations out of sight. Our goal is to be caught up by tomorrow.

We value your time, and appreciate your patience as we resolve this unusual, very temporary issue.

Meet Thirst, Shift Happens, Footnotes & Panipuri

by on September 12, 2012

Some name it after mountains, planets or Greek Gods. Others run contests or scout community forums to harness the wisdom of the crowds.

What are we talking here – its conference room names. But at SlideShare we didn’t have to look far to solve this problem.

At Delhi, SlideShare recently moved into a larger office that has four conference rooms. Our hunt for their names started with wacky/weird options. And then in a Eureka moment it occurred to us – why not name them after some of our SlideShare decks that have achieved iconic status. What better way to recognize these immensely popular, evergreen decks (and their creators) than this. The result is below… (all four decks are previous winners of SlideShare World’s Best Presentation Contests)

Footnotes is our biggest conf room – it can seat 20 people, has large French windows, overlooks a small green lawn and is the lifeblood of our Delhi-San Francisco team meetings. Shift Happens and Panipuri are two smaller conf rooms located near the reception area- mostly for visitors, admin folks etc. And Thirst is a small conf room that the engineers crowd around all day long (its near the engineers bay).

If you are passing by Delhi, you’re invited to the SlideShare office. We’ll show you around the rooms.

Scoop those slides! Curation publishing platform Scoop.it now integrates with SlideShare

by on September 11, 2012

Scoop.it, the publishing-by-curation platform, is now integrated with SlideShare!

Scoop.it uses our API to let you curate SlideShare presentations which are relevant to your interests. You can now publish them as embedded presentations on your Scoop.it topic page and share them with all your social media channels.

You want curators to find and scoop your presentations. By adding your presentations to their Scoop.it topic pages, content curators are endorsing your work, giving it context, spreading it to their social networks, and getting it in front of interested audiences.

Get more views by scooping your presentations on your own Scoopt.it topic pages, and suggesting your presentations to other Scoop.it curators.

If you curate content for an online magazine, with a couple of clicks you can include SlideShare presentations. Create a topic in Scoop.it, then curate and add items to that topic. Our integration now makes it easy to include SlideShare presentations, as well.

If you’re already a Scoop.it user, click on your toolbar widget to scoop a presentation, right from the SlideShare page. New to Scoop.it? Take the guided tour.

We are always looking for new and exciting ways to get more viewers to see SlideShare presentations. Let us know in the comments what you think about Scooping presentations.

Use new embed codes for HTML5 presentations that play everywhere

by on July 20, 2012

As part of our transition to HTML5, we are pleased to let you know that embedded presentations are now Flash-free. We have also made several other improvements to our embed code:

  • Embedded presentations can be viewed on iOS devices
  • New features in embedded presentations will be updated dynamically
  • The embed code is shorter and simpler
  • The embed has new Twitter and Facebook share buttons (we find that presentations with share buttons get shared 30% more)

Update your embed code to get all this goodness.

If you have embedded presentations on your own blog or website, here’s how to update the embed code:

  1. go to the embedded presentation’s page on SlideShare
  2. click on <>Embed at the top right of the player
  3. click on Copy to get your new embed code
  4. paste the code into your website html, replacing the old embed code

Your presentation will not change, but the embedded presentation will be kicked up a notch and the HTML5 will allow more viewers to see it.

If the presentations are embedded on someone else’s website or blog, it’s worth taking a minute to drop them a line and ask them to update, following the steps above. If an embedded presentation isn’t updated, no harm no foul. It will keep playing as before, but won’t have the advantages of HTML5.

Please note: If you have presentations embedded in a WordPress blog, hang on just a little while longer. The embed code for WordPress will be updated soon, and we’ll let you know when it’s ready.

We appreciate how you, the SlideShare Community, have worked with us and given great feedback about our HTML5 migration. Thanks!

DevelopHer Hackday this weekend in Delhi & Mountain View

by on June 28, 2012

SlideShare and LinkedIn are hosting DevelopHer Hackday, an open hackathon event to engage women in engineering to create, build and present their ideas to an audience of peers and pros. Enjoy free hacker food, meet an energetic group of women attendees and hack!

Where and When:
Saturday 10 am, June 30th to Sunday 12 pm, July 1st 2012 [IST]
SlideShare
221 Ground Floor
Okhla Phase-III,
New Delhi – 110020
Learn more and register here

DevelopHer Hackday

What’s a Hack Day?
Simple — form a team of 1 or up to 3 and spend 24 hours building a new software idea using publicly-available data and APIs. Working code— no PowerPoint, keynote, or slideware. Those who brave the night to build and make their dreams real get 90 seconds to present their work in front of a live audience.

The top 2 teams’ members will be awarded Apple Macbook Airs and iPads.

We’re excited to announce the judges: Dave McClure and Rashmi Sinha

Our action packed DevelopHer Hackday will begin in New Delhi in less than 48 hrs!
Seating is limited so register now!

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