Clicking through presentations can be cumbersome, especially when you’re talking through them with a live audience at hand. You have to find the right key on your keyboard, or move your mouse to the correct button, often halting the flow of your speech. What if you could just flick your finger in the air, indicating movement to the next page? Our engineers are on it. We figured if you could play motion-sensing tennis on the Nintendo Wii, couldn’t you at least flip thought SlideShare presentations with the wave of a hand? Here’s a preview of what we’re working on: SlideShare… Read more »
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LinkedIn Inday : What can SlideShare learn from other organizations?
InDay is a special day at LinkedIn where employees are given a chance to be creative and work on inspirational projects. All employees and interns are encouraged to participate and interact across the organization. The theme for January was Learning and the SlideShare Delhi team participated with a slight twist – we had a team session of 5×5 style presentations centered around learning. We have a diverse and talented team at SlideShare, many of whom have worked at reputed organisations previously. So we thought – what can SlideShare learn from other organizations where our employees have worked before? We asked… Read more »
Five most awesome things I fondly recall about my summer internship at SlideShare
Editor’s note: Here at SlideShare we value the terrific interns that pass through our hallways every year. Among them May through July of 2012 was Aakriti Gupta, a computer science student who shared recollections of her experience with us here. Here are the five most awesome things I fondly recall about my summer internship at SlideShare: 1. I’m in! SlideShare had been acquired by LinkedIn only a few days back and this was visible in the office. I was introduced to the entire team, most of them wearing their LinkedIn tshirts. I was nervous on the first day but they… Read more »
Five years of SlideShare
Exactly five years ago, on October 4th, we launched SlideShare. The launch was a story on TechCrunch (that’s all we did to get the word out). SlideShare was the first web-based document sharing service – we did not know how users would react. But it immediately started catching on – we knew on the first day, within the first few hours, that we were on to something. We had so many people asking for invites to the site that one person’s job that day was to press the button to let new people into the site! Within… Read more »
Welcome to SlideShare, Ross!
We are delighted to announce that Ross Mayfield is joining SlideShare as VP Business Development. Ross has been involved with SlideShare from the beginning. In 2006, he was one of the first people Jon and I showed the beta to even before launch. He was also one of our first advisors. I met him at the first ever Barcamp, and he always impressed me with the breadth of his thinking when it comes to social software. Ross is the founder of SocialText, which did pioneering work in bringing wikis to the enterprise market. Prior to that, he co-founded RateXchange, a… Read more »
Go Pro
Today’s SlideShare Pro subscriptions launch has got the web buzzing. Professionals, Small Businesses and Enterprises have been using SlideShare Pro while in beta as a new cornerstone in their social media strategy. “SlideShare is the fastest growing external social media site Dell is engaging through, said George Palantine, Dell Senior eBusiness Manager and a Beta customer of SlideShare Pro. ”The custom branded Channel for Dell Large Enterprise was easy to set up, the new analytics features help us measure what we manage and we are able to directly capture leads from within the communities professionals participate in.” Here’s a roundup of the… Read more »
New Feature: How to import your Google Documents to SlideShare (Update)
Important Update: Some of our users had expressed concern over giving us their credentials for our Google Docs Import feature. Well, the good news is that you don’t need to any more. Please have a look at the steps outlined below to help you get started. We just rolled out the ability to import and share documents from Google Docs on SlideShare. For now we support importing presentations, documents and pdf files. Just follow the steps outlined below to share your work on SlideShare: 1. Make sure you are logged into your SlideShare account before trying to import documents from… Read more »
Contest judging is going on, stay tuned
Thanks to everyone for their stories. We received more than 2500 entries to the contest! We really appreciate all the hard work you put into it. The five judges Ann Handley, Don Tapscott, Om Malik, Pete Cashmore and Tony Hsieh and going over the entries to choose winners. We will be declaring the results very soon. Stay tuned. We will also be sending information about your free Fuze Meeting accounts to everyone who submitted an entry. You should receive an email before end of the week.