SlideShare
An Introduction to SlideShare by Yalda Belarak
Analyzing the Job Function

What is SlideShare?
 SlideShare.net is a free website founded in October 2006 for sharing presentations
and other professional contents. It allows users to easily upload and share
presentations, infographics, documents, videos, PDFs, and webinars. It is
somehow like YouTube, but its emphasis is more on presentations though
professional video is permitted and shared.

SlideShare’s Home Page

SlideShare’s Benefits
 To have a backup of your presentation and also sharing it with customers, friends,
colleagues and followers
 To find presentations shared by other professionals in different fields
 Capability to be embedded in websites and blogs and shared in LinkedIn, Facebook, and
Twitter.
 Having millions of visitors each month
 Known as a useful website for tutorials and presentations.
 It is free!

How to use SlideShare?
 You have to sign up and fill out your profile.
 You can log in with your LinkedIn or Facebook profiles.
 you can include the link of your website's URL so that visitors can refer to it.
 Choose a relevant title and add some description for your file in order to be found easily. Include Keywords in the title.
 You can also add audio narration to your presentations. Record your audio and upload the file as an MP3 to play with your
presentation.
 SlideShare allows you to embed links in your presentations.
 You can follow people and pages you are interested in, like the presentations and get their updates when they add new
content to their accounts.
 You can save and download presentations.
 It suggests similar subjects to the presentation you have watched.
 In Explore, there are different categories including Education, Art &Photos, Popular, Business, Design, Social Media,
Technology, Marketing and Mobile.
 There is also an application for ios and android.
 SlideShare offers a “pro” feature which gives you greater customization. You can try it for 30 days and you can create more
attractive profile design.