You’ve completed your SlideShare profile, uploaded some presentations, embedded a slideshow or two on your blog. But how are you letting your readers know about your additional SlideShare content? It’s time to add a SlideShare badge (aka widget) to your website. With one click on your SlideShare badge, visitors to your blog or website will link directly to your SlideShare profile page. From here they can learn more about you or your company, view your presentations and follow you. As easy as copy and paste You’ll find 14 SlideShare widgets to choose from on our Mini Badges page. Select a… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Using Slideshare
New LinkedIn profiles make it easier to add SlideShare presentations
We’ve been working on providing new and exciting ways to add SlideShare content to your LinkedIn profile. Previously this was done with the SlideShare App on LinkedIn, which we are discontinuing in favor of a simpler and easier way to add content. The new LinkedIn profiles will be rolled out during the next month to people around the world. Here’s how to use them. If you were using the SlideShare App on LinkedIn As part of the migration, all your existing SlideShare content currently displayed on your LinkedIn profile through the LinkedIn app will be transitioned to the new profile… Read more »
Haiku Deck + Slideshare = The Fast Track to Slide Stardom
Slidesharers, you should know that you have totally inspired us. Every time we visit, we discover amazing storytellers and fresh new ways to communicate. We’re often amazed by the beautifully designed decks we find as we browse the site. We also know that many mere mortals struggle to make their stories look as good as those professionally designed ones. So we set out to make a tool that would take the design hocus-pocus out of the process. We wanted to offer a simple, fun way for anybody to create flawlessly beautiful presentations. The result is Haiku Deck, and we’d like… Read more »
Webinar: Social Content Marketing with SlideShare
Please join me for a live webinar on Social Content Marketing with SlideShare on Tuesday December 11th. Our special guest is Todd Wheatland, author of the recently published Marketer’s Guide to SlideShare. The webinar is of particular interest to B2B marketers from large organizations looking to leverage SlideShare for content marketing. In this session, you’ll learn to: Target buyers and influencers Generate ideas for content Distribute and promote content Generate leads and create opportunities Todd literally wrote the book on this. Here’s his background: Todd Wheatland is VP, Thought Leadership & Marketing at Fortune 500 ® workforce solutions company Kelly Services,… Read more »
Sharing presentations increases engagement
Here at SlideShare, we can clearly see the influence that popular presentations have on the greater SlideShare audience to further explore ideas and concepts. Taking an existing presentation to the next level, either creatively or intellectually, inspires interaction and gives new momentum to the original content. Bruce Gabrielle recently uploaded this presentation which he embedded in his very popular blog post, 5 Tips For Presenting to Executives. Bruce’s slideshow caught the attention of Dirk Hannemann of Berlin, Germany who then built upon the presentation’s salient points and created a video of his own. Thankfully, the days of closely guarded content… Read more »
KISSmetrics shares SlideShare tips for marketers
We’re big fans of our friends at KISSmetrics. So when a guest post about SlideShare by Mauro D’Andrea appeared on the KISSmetrics blog, we noticed right away! In his article The Marketer’s Guide To SlideShare, Mauro presents a well thought out summary of his observations and experience using SlideShare as a marketer. Mauro has embedded no fewer than 8 presentations in his post. He also includes many screenshots of SlideShare community favorites as great examples to illustrate his points. “Your presentations have to be magnets. They have to grab people’s attention from the start to the end…Think of your presentation… Read more »
The eBook is the Stud in Your Content Marketing Stable
Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs collaborate annually to produce a heap of research findings they call “B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends.” This year’s report just came out. (Presented on SlideShare here.) In a section that probes respondents about what they perceive to be their biggest challenges, the top three results were: (1) producing enough content (2) producing content that engages, and (3) lack of budget. Repurposing quality content helps overcome all these challenges. If you don’t repurpose your best content, it’s time to start. And if you merely dabble in the practice, you’d be wise to step… Read more »
Crowdsourcing and curation by SlideShare community helps distribute news and photos of superstorm Sandy
The eastern seaboard of the United States is home to some of the largest news and media centers in the world. What happens when a catastrophic event such as superstorm Sandy occurs? Those media hubs find themselves in the same predicament as the millions of citizens and businesses all along the affected area. Some TV news stations such as CNN and MSNBC have been able to remain on the air, but their mobility is limited, and depends on reporters who must brave very difficult conditions in order to report their stories. Hurricane Sandy from Katherine Christine Haughney and Brian Stelter… Read more »