2. SlideShare Table of Content
1. What is SlideShare?
2. How to use SlideShare?
3. Some things that you can do on SlideShare
4. The Founder
5. History
6. Statistics
7. Uses of SlideShare in Education
8. Uses of SlideShare in the World of Business
9. ScreenCasting Versus SlideShare
10. SlideShare between Partners and Competitors
11. References
3. What is SlideShare?
1. SlideShare is a useful Web 2.0 based slide hosting service.
2. Users can upload files privately or publicly in the following
file formats: PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote* or OpenOffice*
presentations, videos and webinars*.
3. Presentations can be viewed on the site itself, on hand held
devices or embedded on other sites.
4. SlideShare also provides users the ability to rate, comment
on, and share the uploaded content.
*http://www.apple.com/apps/iwork/keynote/
*http://www.openoffice.org/
* http://www.clickwebinar.com/
4. How to use SlideShare?
1. Log on “https://www.slideshare.net”
2. Click on the Upload Button
3. When you get the message in a text box that your presentation was
uploaded successfully, you are given the choice to upgrade to Pro for
privacy purposes (if you decided to keep your presentation private)
4. Also, you can add audio, title, tags, and language etc.
How to use SlideShare (YouTube Movie)
The Steps are easy and fast.
What do you need:
1. PowerPoint Software
2. Microphone for adding audio
5. Some things that you can do on SlideShare
1. Upload presentations publicly or privately
2. Download presentations on any topic and reuse or remix
3. Embed on blogs, websites, company intranets
4. Share on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
5. Zipcast: free, no download,
6. Leadshare: generate business leads with your presentations, documents, pdfs, videos
7. Slidecast: sync mp3 audio with slides to create a webinar
8. Embed YouTube videos inside SlideShare presentations
9. Use SlideShare PRO for premium features like branded channels, analytics, and ad free pages
10. The SlideShare site and its content are available to anyone on any platform such as works
seamlessly on mobile devices like Apple iPad and iPhone.
11. SlideShare allow people to easily share presentations, documents, and videos with virtually
anyone.
6. The Founder
After growing up in India and earning a PhD
in psychology, Rashmi Sinha went to UC
Berkeley for a postdoc where she switched
her focus to human-computer interaction.
She then left academia to start her own user-
experience consultancy and developed
MindCanvas*, a game-like tool for user
research. Simultaneously, Rashmi and her
husband built SlideShare, a site for people to
share presentations online, in just six
months.
* MindCanvas
7. History
1. SlideShare launched on October 4, 2006, the website is
considered to be similar to YouTube, but for slideshows.
2. SlideShare is headquartered in San Francisco, and has an office
in New Delhi.
3. Since its launch, more than 9 million presentations have been
uploaded to SlideShare, helping professionals connect through
content. LinkedIn acquired SlideShare for over $100 million in
2012.
8. Statistics
1. SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. With 60
million monthly visitors and 130 million page views, it is amongst the most
visited 200 websites in the world.
2. It has about 16 million registered users
3. SlideShare was voted amongst the World's Top 10 tools for education & e-
learning in 2010.
4. In 2009, the official website for the US President (Whitehouse.gov) signed user
agreements with eight of the world's leading social media websites. SlideShare
was one of them. SlideShare is regularly used by the Whitehouse and many other
US government departments.
5. SlideShare finds reference in hundreds of published books on internet, Web 2.0,
technology (search "slideshare" on Google books)
6. CEO Rashmi Sinha was recently named amongst the world’s Top 10 Women
Influencers in Web 2.0 by Fast Company.
9. Statistics (Continue)
1. Some of the notable users of SlideShare include NASA, World
Economic Forum, State of Utah, O'Reilly Media, Hewlett
Packard and IBM, Pew Internet, US Army and US Navy, NASA,
United Nations, UNICEF, Universities of Texas and Illinois, Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation, International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) and the list goes on.
10. Uses of SlideShare in Education
Uses of SlideShare in Education Examples
SlideShare provide resources for teachers. This PPT “Planet Earth" could be used as an
Presentations on many different topics can be introduction to a science unit on biomes.
found using the site’s search feature. A second Example, The Story of Aladdin
Tools for Designing Distant Learning http://www.slideshare.net/purplecast/tools-for-
Instruction designing-distance-learning-instruction,
API Business Models,
7 Steps to a Flat Classroom http://www.slideshare.net/coolcatteacher/googl
e-teacher-academy-vicki-davis-keynote-part-2
During a unit project for a Web 2.0 course a the teacher’s PowerPoint presentation for this
high school teacher upload his PowerPoint project at “Introduction to SlideShare” – a Unit
presentations to SlideShare and the students Project for a Web 2.0 course.
emailed the published URL for their
slideshows to the teacher.
Students can use this site to communicate with http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/HealthyBee/s
different audiences share their work, view tressed-presentation
other students’ work and make comments.
11. Uses of SlideShare in the World of Business
“Case Study: SlideShare goes Freemium” http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2010/0
In this article, Eric Ries analyze the business 8/case-study-slideshare-goes-freemium.html
model represented by SlideShare
“The Marketer’s Guide To SlideShare” Visit Mauro D’Andrea (the founder of Blog
In this article the Mauro D’Andrea labeled Growth, the blog where he helps people to
SlideShare as “The Quiet Giant of Content reach their internet marketing goals) to see the
Marketing” because “SlideShare’s features most shocking presentations on Slideshare that
make it the ideal tool to grow your business” she used to illustrate her tips.
and gives hints and reviews of how to use this http://blog.kissmetrics.com/marketers-guide-
tool. to-slideshare/
“All-New 2010 Taurus” Slide Show http://www.slideshare.net/FordMotorCompan
by Ford Motor Company on Oct 02, 2009 y/allnew-2010-taurus
Check out the technological innovations
present in the all-new 2010 Ford Taurus.
“Storm Preparedness: Before, During, After!” http://www.slideshare.net/smgnj/storm-
by Summit Medical Group on Jan 09, 2013 preparedness-before-during-after
12. ScreenCasting Versus SlideShare
Similar Different
a. Combination of ScreenCasting: SlideShare:
Audio & Visual a. a digital movie of a. Slide Host
b. Useful tool in where the stage is Services, a place
education and your computer screen to upload your
training. and then published presentation.
c. Can be used to inside a standard web b. Became available
market products page or blog post. on 2006
and business. b. Became available on
d. Both are 2004
compatible with
mobile devises
13. SlideShare between Partners and Competitors
Biggest competitors Partnerships
Scribd.com , Issuu, Docstoc Linkedin, Twitter, Google Hangouts
FreeConference.com
References:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlideShare
2. http://blog.kissmetrics.com/marketers-guide-to-slideshare/
3. http://www.slideshare.net/
4. http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2010/08/case-study-
slideshare-goes-freemium.html
