Since LinkedIn acquired SlideShare, we’ve been working towards new ways to help professionals discover people through content, and content through people. Today we’re releasing some new ways to engage your Professional Network on LinkedIn with the content you discover and share. Follow along with four easy steps: SlideShare Content Sharing with your Professional Network on LinkedIn 1) Log into SlideShare with your LinkedIn credentials Now you can use your LinkedIn login with SlideShare. Just click the button on the SlideShare log in page: 2) Use your LinkedIn profile to enrich your SlideShare profile After you log in with your LinkedIn… Read more »
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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 »
SlideShare and LinkedIn sitting in a tree…
About five years ago, we launched SlideShare. Since then people have uploaded millions of presentations to the site, sharing them with others, making SlideShare what it is today. I want to tell you about the next step in our journey. SlideShare has agreed to be acquired by LinkedIn, the largest professional network on the Internet. We could not be happier about this. We think this is the right step for the SlideShare community, the site, and the team. When we started, the idea of sharing presentations on the Web was a twinkle in our eyes. Jon dreamed up the idea… Read more »
SlideShare and LinkedIn sitting in a tree…
An announcement from our CEO, Rashmi Sinha… About five years ago, we launched SlideShare. Since then people have uploaded millions of presentations to the site, sharing them with others, making SlideShare what it is today. I want to tell you about the next step in our journey. SlideShare has agreed to be acquired by LinkedIn, the largest professional network on the Internet. We could not be happier about this. We think this is the right step for the SlideShare community, the site, and the team. When we started, the idea of sharing presentations on the Web was a twinkle in… Read more »
LinkedIn: Using SlideShare and StockTwits for Social IR
LinkedIn posted their first earnings presentation in the LinkedIn SlideShare Pro Channel at the close of the bell yesterday, enabling their content to be a focal point of conversation across social networks. LinkedIn is one of several companies leveraging a new integration between SlideShare and StockTwits. The LinkedIn Channel includes real time tweeting of the $LNKD earnings call via StockTwits, and the StockTwits ticker page includes the earnings presentation. “As a social media company, it was a no-brainer to use SlideShare to share our earnings call slides on our corporate blog,” said Mario Sundar, Chief Blogger at LinkedIn. While SlideShare made it… Read more »
Discovering People Through Content, and Content Through People
Starting today, we’re launching a new integration with SlideShare and LinkedIn that will make it easier for you to share, discover, and engage with professional content on both networks. Below are the three new features you’ll notice: 1. Share SlideShare presentations, documents, and videos on LinkedIn We’ve added the LinkedIn Share button to all SlideShare presentations, documents, and videos, so you can share content with your professional network with one click. Content that’s been shared is then visible to your connections in the LinkedIn Update Stream and across the LinkedIn site, including LinkedIn Signal, which lets you use your professional… Read more »
Community members offer great tips
We really appreciate it when members of the SlideShare community take it upon themselves to write helpful how-to articles, curate collections of their favorite presentations, and give shout-outs to apps we’ve created. This week has been particularly fruitful, starting with Kristina Allen’s guest post entitled “Top 5 SlideShare Marketing Tips,” published on Jay Baer’s blog, ‘Convince & Connect’. Kristina says, “I really love creating short (read: easily consumable) but informative Slideshares and then socializing them with my networks.” Kristina describes how she uses visual metaphors in her slideshows, the importance of including a call-to-action, and other helpful tips. A special… Read more »
Wondering how? wikiHow!
is a great resource for learning how to do something new. Comprised of a volunteer community of writers and editors, wikiHow articles are read by more than 25 million people every month. Here at SlideShare, we’re always looking for new ways to help presenters get the most out of publishing and sharing their presentations. wikiHow has just published some useful articles to help you do just that. Are you just getting started using SlideShare? That’s cool, take a look at how to upload a slideshow to SlideShare. Ready to take your slide presentation to the next level? Turn your slidedeck… Read more »