1. SLIDESHARE
share presentations & documents with your LinkedIn network
upload portfolios, resume, conference talks, PDFs, marketing/sales presentations etc
display them on your LinkedIn profile
all formats supported: ppt, pps, pptx, odp, pdf, doc, docx, odt, Keynote, iWork pages
embed YouTube videos in presentations, add audio to make a webinar
If you have a SlideShare.net account, you can import your existing presentations into LinkedIn. If you
don’t have one, signup from LinkedIn to share your presentations worldwide and get more views/traffic.
SlideShare is present on both Linkedin and Facebook. Sync both these accounts with SlideShare and
you have a holy triad. Upload to any one — SlideShare, Facebook or LinkedIn and it will shows up
instantly on all three.
LinkedIn has acquired professional content sharing platform SlideShare for $119 million in cash and stock
SlideShare is a sharing platform for business documents, videos and presentations. SlideShare lets
anyone share presentations and video and also serves as a social discovery platform for users to find
relevant content and connect with other members who share similar interests. The company also has a
huge enterprise following, and companies like IBM and others use the platform to curate content from all
of their employees and partners on a branded page.
SlideShare users have uploaded more than nine million presentations, and according to comScore, in
March SlideShare had nearly 29 million unique visitors.
SlideShare has raised $3 million in funding from Jonathan Abrams, Mark Cuban, Dave McClure, and
Venrock.
The acquisition makes a lot of sense from a product point of view. SlideShare recently deepened its
integration with LinkedIn, and the two companies have compared their relationship to Chocolate and
peanut butter for professionals.