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… Read more »
Posts Categorized: API/Mashups
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 »
Building Context for Professional Content
Connecting to jobs through shared content is common on SlideShare. People build their professional reputation during jobs, and in some cases build visual resumes (cross-posted to their LinkedIn profile) to get jobs. But every job search begins with a basic but difficult question to answer, what kinds of jobs are there? Daily Endeavor is a job guide written by real people. And they’ve integrated with SlideShare using our open APIs to help people find professional content related to jobs. For example, if you are interested in a job in banking or finance jobs there is more to learn than browsing… Read more »
It’s here! Our shiny new Javascript API
Attention developers…you asked for it, and here it is. Our new JavaScript API allows users to access major functions, navigate across presentations, and control the Slideshare embed player via JavaScript. For your embedded presentations, you can now make JS calls to do things like view next and previous slides, and jump to a certain slide. Have you ever wanted to automate synchronized slides and video? Or automate several players to randomly play slides one at a time? Create your own mashup and let your imagination be your guide. You’ll find details about requirements along with some sample code on our… Read more »
A year of innovation at SlideShare
Wow, what a year! As we look back at 2010, we are truly grateful for the support and growth of the SlideShare community. The quality of presentations has never been better, and the innovation of companies and individuals in our extended network has been awesome. Here are some of the highlights: In response to feedback from many of you, our big launches included the ability to share professional videos. We’re especially excited to partner with the large social platforms and their communities. Twitter users now have the ability to embed and play presentations on right in the details pane. Twitter’s… Read more »
Slide By Slide: an iPad app built using the SlideShare API
We are excited to introduce a new native iPad app for SlideShare. Slide by Slide™ was built on top of the SlideShare API. Here’s what the creator of the app, Robin Kansara told us about Slide By Slide™, now available at the Apple App Store. What is the Slide by Slide app? Slide by Slide is a native iPad app which allows users to conveniently search and browse presentations from SlideShare.com. In addition to maintaining a history of slideshows seen, it also allows users to share their favorite slideshows with friends and colleagues through Facebook, Twitter, or email. We’ve been… Read more »
Automatically Import Leads from LeadShare into SalesForce
We’re pleased to announce the release of the LeadShare API along with its first application: Slide2Lead, an integration of LeadShare with SalesForce! That’s right, with your SlideShare business account, you can now synchronize leads generated by your presentations into your SalesForce CRM account. Businesses are using SlideShare to generate leads every day using LeadShare. Now you can synchronize SlideShare documents, campaigns, leads and statistics, create SlideShare campaigns, and schedule synchronization with SalesForce. Slide2Lead is a must-have for marketers who want to automate lead collection. Here’s a presentation that Mansa Systems uses to capture leads with LeadShare — and have… Read more »
Synchronize Your Presentations with Your Videos
Have you ever wanted to play your slidedeck in synch with the video of your presentation? Now you can synchronize them yourself, without the expense of an editing service! Zentation.com has built a cool tool to synchronize your presentations and videos (both need to be on SlideShare). Here’s an example: This mashup was built using the SlideShare API. If you are a developer, there are a lot of cool tools like this that you can build on top of the SlideShare API (go check out the API here). How you can build your own mashup! Upload your video and Powerpoint… Read more »