SlideShare is a slide hosting service founded in 2006 that allows users to upload, share, and download presentations. It has over 60 million monthly visitors and is one of the top 200 most visited websites worldwide. Presentations shared on SlideShare can be embedded on blogs and websites to reach a wide audience. Benefits of using SlideShare include lead generation, search engine optimization through indexing of presentation text and notes, and analytics on presentation views and downloads. Major companies and organizations use SlideShare to share content.

1. New Web Technology
Presentation
Maria Watson
IVYT 109-01A Spring 2013

2. Facts
Founded in October 2006
Based out of San Francisco and has
an office in New Dehli, India
Noted as one of the top 200 most
visited websites in the world
Approximately 60 million monthly
visitors

3. What is this extraordinary
website?
SlideShare
This web application is a slide hosting service. Like
with the popular Pinterest website where you can
share everything from recipes, wedding ideas, to
crafts, SlideShare can share your and download
presentations from Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.

4. What can you share on
SlideShare1?
• Upload presentations publicly or
privately
• Download presentation on any topic
• Embed in blogs, websites, company
intranets
• Share on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
• Leadshare: generates business leads
with your presentation
• Embed YouTube videos inside
SlideShare presentations

5. What are the benefits of using
Slideshare?
• Major lead generator when added to LinkedIn
• Google and other search engines index
SlideShare’s “notes” text. Presentation
descriptions can be searched using keywords2
• Easy to share presentations with the web
community
• Analytics that allow members to review how
many hits their presentation received and how
many times their presentation has been
downloaded

6. Teachers share their lesson plans, business people advertise their
presentations, products and services, bloggers share their thoughts
and ideas all use SlideShare to reach a wide range of audience.
People share others presentations, embed them, borrow from them
and even review and critique presentations.
There is no cost to sign up for the basic SlideShare account, but there
are different upgraded accounts that start at $19 per month.
There is a lead generation option you can select when you’re setting up
the presentation. If you select it, a pop-up window asks the viewer to
submit contact details if they’re interested in more information3.
LinkedIn is a great way to market yourself and your professional
qualifications. There is a free LinkedIn application that is an extension
of SlideShare.net’s professional sharing community which allows you to
upload and share a variety of content, including PowerPoint and
Keynote presentations Word documents PDFs and videos4.

7. Who uses SlideShare?
Listed below are some companies who currently use SlideShare1:
 The WhiteHouse
 US Army and US Navy
 UNICEF
 University of Texas
 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 Dell
 Pfizer
 Hewlett Packard
 IBM
 McGraw-Hill
 Daimler
 University of Illinois

8. SlideShare does for presentations what YouTube does for
videos. SlideShare is a community where individuals
can research topics, get inspiration for their presentation
or simply check out a sales deck without a sales rep4.

9. Please click on the link below to
see my presentation as an
example:

10. Terms of Use1
Listed below are some of the terms and guidelines for using
SlideShare:
We trust you to be responsible and respect each other.
SlideShare is a large community of people. In order for all of us
to live happily on this site together, it implies a certain level of
trust. Trust and respect each other!
While you may not think copyright is a good idea, it is still the
law. Please respect it. Do not upload the work of others as your
own. Only upload content of others, if they have given you
permission (or if they have licensed it under Creative
Commons).
SlideShare does not actively screen content being uploaded
because we trust you to self-moderate. But we do have a
system where users flag accounts or slideshows for
violations/abuse and we will step in when we think it's
necessary.

11. Citations and References
1. http://slideshare.net
2. http://www.newepicmedia.com/news/the-slideshare-
advantage/
3. http://www.prweekus.com/slideshare-pro-eases-the-
pain-of-sharing-presentations/article/285889/
4. http://www.pcworld.com/article/234398/slideshare_
presentations_for_linkedin.html
5. http://slideshare.appapeal.com