Slideshare: YouTube for Presentations

After you’ve given a presentation and want to make your slides available to people without having to email it as an attachment to lots of people, how do you do that? Slideshare.

Slideshare is an great place to upload and share the slides from your presentations. You can share them publicly or privately.

For example, I was recently at the Web 2.0 Expo, and a lot of the presenters put their slides up on Slideshare after their presentations. This was pretty handy.

You can also browse thousands of other presentations on the site. For more details, here is a helpful (slide) tour of the site. The most interesting 6 things it tells you about the site are that you can:

  1. Share your presentations with the world
  2. Find thousands of interesting presentations
  3. Create slidecasts (slides plus audio)
  4. Make professional contacts
  5. Join groups about interesting topics
  6. Check out slides from events you missed

Since we’re on the subject of PowerPoint (or Keynote) presentations, it’s worth giving a few words on quality.

First, here’s a helpful visual summary of how to present information in a way that is interesting and does not overwhelm the user.

Second, when creating a presentation, it’s worth checking out powerpointing.com for some useful designs.

Third, it’s worth checking out Edward Tufte’s essay The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint. He talks about the problem with PowerPoint, how to use PowerPoint right, how to avoid the boring use of bullet points, and basically blames the Challenger disaster on the incorrect use of PowerPoint.

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April 10, 2009 | Filed Under Communication | 4 Comments 

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4 Responses to “Slideshare: YouTube for Presentations”

  1. Kevin on April 11th, 2009 8:54 am

    Thanks for sharing this. Will come in handy. Noticed your link to the tour of Slideshare is incorrect.

  2. Darin on April 11th, 2009 10:52 pm

    That would be Columbia, not Challenger.

  3. Matt on April 13th, 2009 3:07 pm

    Darin: Actually, it’s the Challenger disaster that he talks about.

  4. Matt on April 13th, 2009 3:09 pm

    Kevin: Thanks. Fixed.

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