We’ve just rolled out a feature that many of our users would love. If you use SlideShare to present live in front of an audience (or even while watching presentations in full screen mode) this is for you. You (as the presentation uploader) can decide what background color should show behind the slides. Till now this was only white… now you can optionally make this black (this gives you a contrast between the slide template color and the full screen background, and allows you to adjust for differences in lighting conditions, ambience etc). This color change takes effect ONLY in… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Features & Changes
Eloqua Expands Its Brand With SlideShare Pro
For the next segment in our series of SlideShare Pro interviews, we talked with Joe Chernov of Eloqua, which launched its SlideShare Pro channel, The ‘Revenue Hub’ this week. What is your role at Eloqua? “I was brought in to inspire staff to publish, to curate the right content, measure and adapt, and to forge community relationships. Later this fall, Eloqua is going to announce a totally new platform that will leapfrog where everybody else is. We want the world to know that we are adapting from within. I’m tasked with expanding the visibility of the company with fresh DNA,… 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 »
Add SlideShare to your Windows Live Profile
Want to give the people in your Windows Live network an easy way to get your SlideShare updates? You can now add SlideShare as a Web Activity in your Windows Live Profile! When you add SlideShare to your Windows Live Profile, your network can easily view all of your SlideShare activity. This is a great way to let everyone in your network know that you have added a presentation to SlideShare. Connect to SlideShare and updates will automatically appear in your Windows Live profile. And the people in your Windows Live network will see the latest updates of your SlideShare… Read more »
Keep up with Web Hosting news & content with new SlideShare channel
When we announced branded channels a few weeks ago, we promised that we would launch a set of topical channels, with high quality content. We are launching the first of those today – focused on Web Hosting. Our editors have identified the best content on SlideShare about Web Hosting and put it together in this channel. Every week, we will be adding more. If you upload content on this topic, please post your SlideShare username to this thread and we will look up your presentations when we next add content to the channel. If you are interested in Web Hosting,… Read more »
Introducing: Seven new account types on SlideShare
Update : Along with account types, we have also introduced an “Industry/Cause” indicator in your profile information. You can specify which industry you are working in. For the new account types, this is a compulsory field. For the default/normal type, this is optional. Ever wondered this? Who are you on SlideShare? Well till recently, we gave everyone the same kind of account (i.e. the default/normal account). So if you were a teacher, a university, a company or a lone user, you had to use the same account type (and have to specify your gender & DOB as well!) Not any… Read more »
New Feature: Automatically share your slideshare activity on Facebook & Twitter
We are launching Social AutoShare. This is a feature that allows users to automatically publish their SlideShare activity – commenting, favoriting, uploading and following to Twitter & Facebook. Check out this quick tutorial. The process is really easy. It will not take more than a few minutes to link your accounts together. And you can disconnect at will. Social AutoShare : How to publish your SlideShare activity to Facebook & Twitter View more presentations from SlideShare Help. Note: This feature in in beta. And we have heard from some users about problems in linking with Twitter. We’re working on this.
Some new features and changes
There has been a lot going on at SlideShare recently. Portrait version of SlideShare Playlist: We introduced the SlideShare playlist a few weeks ago . But it was limited to landscape mode. Today, we added support for the portrait version of the playlist. Many of you with blogs/websites with less wide columns will find this useful. Check it out below | Get your SlideShare Playlist New Helpdesk: Our customer support channels were not keeping pace with the growth of SlideShare. We are in the process of shifting to a new customer support helpdesk called Zendesk which should help us communicate… Read more »