We have fixed the bug that was preventing multiple YouTube videos from playing smoothly inside a presentation. Many users have complained about this… this problem should now be gone.

The YouTube embedding feature has been enhanced as well- the videos will now autoplay on reaching the video slide. To see this in action, check out this presentation (contains three YouTube videos)

For more videoslides, go here.

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 Google Docs.

2. Click on the “Upload” link on the navigation bar at the top of the page.

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3. Click on the “Import from Google Docs” link on the upload page.

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4. Enter your Google Docs credentials so that we can go and get a listing of your documents from Google.

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NOTE: We do not store your credentials.

5. Almost done… you should now see a list of documents retrieved from Google. Next, you select the ones you want to import and choose the privacy settings that suit you (private or public). Once you’ve made your selection just click on “Import to SlideShare” and we take care of the rest.

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We have been testing it extensively but there may still be some bugs or conversion issues, so please let us know via our feedback form: http://www.slideshare.net/feedback

Here’s a quick update on the Fuze Tell A Story Contest. The entry submission date (19th June) is over, so no more entries… they are frozen. The voting will continue as scheduled till the 22nd of June. Just three more days for you to vote for your favorite presentations.

To see contest entries and vote, go here.

We’ve had a huge response so far - app 2500 presentations from across the world have been entered into the contest, with close to 10000 overall votes already. The votes count is likely to rise significantly in the next 3 days… stay tuned.

If you are participating in the contest, ask your friend, family, colleagues etc to vote… you might just end up winning the top prize of 5000$.

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Big thanks to the contest sponsors Fuze Meeting.

We have been hearing from many of you who want a few more days to get your presentations in. Now you have till Friday, Jun 19th 1.00 PM PST to enter the contest. Lots of great presentations have been submitted, and we are looking for many more masterpieces to come in.

We will be updating the contest page with the new deadline very soon, but I wanted to let you all know about the extended deadline.

Other dates will remain unchanged: Votes can be cast upto June 22nd, 11.59 PM PST. Results will be announced within 2-3 days after the end of voting.

SlideShare is waiting for your stories. Go work on them :->

(Once again, thanks to our sponsors FuzeMeeting for working with us to extend this deadline)

You might have already caught these on TechCrunch (in separate back to back articles). We’re sharing both these decks together for those who missed it.

The first of these decks is titled VC Non Admissions. The deck was adapted from a thread on ExpertCEO contributed by a range of CEOs and VCs about the top twelve things you’d never hear a VC say.

The reply came fast. And it was titled Founders Non Admission.

All for friendly, tongue-in-cheek banter.

The Wild Apricot blog has a compilation of 26 of the best SlideShare presentations on “Social Media for Non Profits”. Check out the post here.

This made world news yesterday. See the original bankruptcy petition filed by General Motors below. Use the full screen option to peruse through.

We just thought of highlighting the State of the World’s Human rights 2009 report that has been shared on SlideShare by Amnesty International. Its a 424 page report (shared as a document). Use the full screen option to peruse through.