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 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… Read more »
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Who’s integrating with SlideShare? HootSuite that’s who!
We’re pleased to announce that Hoot Suite is now integrating SlideShare into its social media management dashboard, using our open APIs. Ideal for professional and educational communities, the SlideShare app for HootSuite allows you to view, share, search for and upload SlideShare content. Contribute ideas, conduct research, connect with others and generate leads for business with slideshows, PDFs, videos, and webinars. Here’s what you can do right from your HootSuite dashboard: Share SlideShare content to your social networks Upload presentations, documents and other content to your SlideShare account Search for presentations by keyword or user View SlideShare content and edit… Read more »
Calling all women hackers: DevelopHer Delhi Hackday
I am excited to announce DevelopHer Hackday in Delhi. This is being done in parallel with the DevelopHer Hackday in Mountain View organized by LinkedIn. So, what is a hackday? A hackday is a fun, geeky, collaborative and semi-competitive event. The goal is to let engineers and designers showcase their innovative ideas and coding abilities by building a hack (rapid prototype or demo) during a short period. Why a hackday for women? Because, there is no better way than a hackday to highlight and celebrate women hackers and creators, and to encourage women who are watching from the sidelines to… Read more »
Share and Discover the Visual Web with Pinterest and SlideShare
Now Pinterest, the virtual pinboard, works with SlideShare! Pinterest optimization for SlideShare presentations provides a fun new way to share and discover the visual web. We’ve noticed lots of SlideShare users Pinning presentations. Now slides are captured as larger images with attribution for authors. And when people browse Pinterest and discover SlideShare content, they can immediately engage in embedded content. We look forward to the collections of visual content on SlideShare that people can share and discover with Pinterest. What are you going to pin to your board?
SlideShare and LinkedIn sitting in a tree…
About five years ago, we launched SlideShare. Since then people have uploaded millions of presentations to the site, sharing them with others, making SlideShare what it is today. I want to tell you about the next step in our journey. SlideShare has agreed to be acquired by LinkedIn, the largest professional network on the Internet. We could not be happier about this. We think this is the right step for the SlideShare community, the site, and the team. When we started, the idea of sharing presentations on the Web was a twinkle in our eyes. Jon dreamed up the idea… Read more »
SlideShare and LinkedIn sitting in a tree…
An announcement from our CEO, Rashmi Sinha… About five years ago, we launched SlideShare. Since then people have uploaded millions of presentations to the site, sharing them with others, making SlideShare what it is today. I want to tell you about the next step in our journey. SlideShare has agreed to be acquired by LinkedIn, the largest professional network on the Internet. We could not be happier about this. We think this is the right step for the SlideShare community, the site, and the team. When we started, the idea of sharing presentations on the Web was a twinkle in… Read more »
Google+ Hangouts SlideShare App
Google+ Hangouts are an ideal place for people to share experiences online just like they do in real life. Now, sharing slides live is even better with the Google+ Hangouts SlideShare App. Whether you’re in a conference presentation or collaborating with a group, this new app allows you and your friends & colleagues around the world to present and discuss SlideShare content in real time. Click the big red button to launch Google+ Hangouts with the SlideShare App. You can search and discover a SlideShare presentation, present Face-to-Face-to-Face and change the presentation and presenter at any time during the Hangout. Now, Google+… Read more »
PowerPoint will never look the same, thanks to Duarte’s Diagrammer
This week Nancy Duarte and her design team launched a new online store, Diagrammer. For 99 cents per download, you can now access world-class diagrams, edit and add them to your presentations. Duarte Inc. is widely known for their quality presentation design, notably working with Al Gore to develop the presentation that became the Academy Award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Nancy took time to tell us about Diagrammer, and the inspiration for such an innovative online service. When the book ‘slide:ology‘ was published, everyone’s favorite chapter was the one about diagrams. People would write to Nancy and her team,… Read more »