Recently, we completely redid how your profiles look and feel. If you have missed the redesign, click on any username on SlideShare and you will notice the difference (e.g., check out my profile page here: http://www.slideshare.net/rashmi

Do you like the changes? If so, then why? If not, then why not? How has it changed your use of SlideShare?

What else would you like to see in SlideShare profiles

Arun J and Sri Prasanna did most of the work on SlideShare profile redesign. I am sure they will love to hear your feedback.

Mike Bogle who is an Educational Technologist at the University of New South Wales and writes the TechTickerblog has created an excellent video tutorial about slidecasting. The five minute tutorial gives you a step by step procedure for creating a slidecast. The blogpost is here.

Check out the video

Thanks Mike.. we’ll add the tutorial to our slidecasting help section.

A great story about presentation design gone wild from the Onion:

CHARLOTTE, NC—Sources at Cobalt Media confirmed Tuesday that the wow factor—an intangible set of viscerally pleasing features that instill onlookers with a feeling of exhilaration and intense interest—was successfully added to this Thursday’s upcoming PowerPoint presentation, entitled “New Ideas For Integrating Social Media Into Product Marketing“.

Members of the group told reporters that, prior to the wow factor’s insertion, the presentation was lacking in both sizzle and pop. These necessary dynamics, along with punch, were integrated by adding more than 30 “flip left” slide transitions, replacing basic blue backgrounds with a more colorful aurora borealis template, and inserting an audio element featuring the Smash Mouth song “Walkin’ On The Sun.”

During an 11th-hour meeting about how to push the wow factor even further, the 12-person presentation team also made the breakthrough decision to replace normal bullet points with miniature Cobalt company logos.

We want to hear about your adventures on SlideShare. Do you have a SlideShare account for business or personal reasons? We know there’s a wide variety of users ranging from teachers uploading lesson plans to social media agencies promoting client content to speakers posting their slides. But we also know there’s probably a whole lot of users we don’t know about, and we’d like you to share your stories with us.

Give us the nitty gritty on who you are, and how you use SlideShare. Tell us about your work, your passion, your dog’s name and favorite treat. We want to know about the resume you just posted or the value added your clients see or the children your nonprofit helps.

Comment on this blog post or link to your own blog post. We’ll be featuring great stories in our upcoming newsletters.

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.

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 Google Docs.

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

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

4. Authenticate yourself with Google using OAuth and grant us access to get a listing of your documents.

NOTE: We will not ask you for 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.

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$.

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)