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.

Founder Non-Admissions

View more OpenOffice presentations from Chris Yeh.

All for friendly, tongue-in-cheek banter.

5:20 AM PST: We’re having an unscheduled downtime for the site. Some technical issues that the engineers are working hard to overcome. Regret the inconvenience.

6:36 AM PST: SlideShare is back up. We had a glitch with our servers which resulted in this unscheduled downtime.

The site is completely back to normal now. All clear!

This is what one user had to say after uploading for the first time to SlideShare:

What this exercise has taught me is the numbers of people that you can reach with the simple (and free) exercise of hosting the presentation online. 26 people came to our training day; … One week after posting the links to these slideshows, this is the result: The Kent Libraries modernisation programme slideshow has had 280 views, and the Imperial College refurbishment programme has had 194 views! Now considering that there were only 26 people in the room at the time, this shows the value of online networking. Many more people have been helped by the excellent ideas in these two slideshows… (read more)

If you have presentations or pdfs sitting in your hard drive, why not upload to SlideShare and get some views for them…

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.

The Twitter book by Sarah Milstein and Tim Or’Reilly got me thinking about this. In retrospect, its one of those duh ideas. For some types of books, the presentation format makes a lot of sense. When the material is visual, less word heavy and needs to be browsed through easily. Yes, it would not work for a Iliad, for a John le Carre novel, or for Obama’s autobiography. But like the graphic novel, it could be its own type thing.

The Twitter book, on my desk right now, demonstrates that. Pages alternate between a series of tweets and text. The text is in large font and on many pages there are only a few lines. Its easy to skim through, or take time to do a more thorough read. One did not need a 100 page, text-heavy book format for this topic. The goal of this book is to make interesting observations, and let tweets do the talking. The format lets that happen naturally.

Should you be considering the presentation - book format? It might make sense if you are developing a series of talks into a book. You already have a set of presentations, your ideas illustrated with visuals. Why not develop it into a presentation-book?

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.

We are very happy to announce that now SlideShare’s presentations are being suggested by Zemanta (a blogging tool). If you are writing a blog post and have Zemanta plugin installed then you can get suggestions to embed highly relevant presentations from SlideShare via Zemanta. And here is their blog post.

What this means for SlideShare users?
      One more distribution channel for your presentations to reach out to your target audience. So whats stoping you, upload your presentation on SlideShare and let it be embedded by other bloggers.

What this means for bloggers?
      Enrich your blog post by embedding a semantically suggested SlideShare presentation using Zemanta.