Slideshare continues to Share

In October I posted on Slideshare. It still seems to be a great service that is growing and serving a purpose. They have over 5000 presentations and they haved added some more social networking features on the site, like "Zing", the ability to so you liked the presentation.

I posted this presentation on podcasting about seven months ago.



It is a presentation that I did for about 30 people in November of 2005, it has had 450 views since I posted it to slideshare and one person even "Zinged" it. This in no way means that those who have viewed the presentation "retained" the information contained in the presentation or that they have any idea what I shared during the presentation (which may actually be a plus), but it does say that they were at some level interested in podcasting and how it can be a mobile learning platform.

It think it is great that Slideshare has continued to increase in popularity and I hope that it continues to be a viable service far into the future.

More on Slide Share

I am just fascinated with SlideShare, a great presentation sharing platform that is being called YouTube for powerpoint. As of 11pm eastern tonight they have 1340 slide stacks in their public archive. I am predicting that this will explode. Long before the click-button publishing of blogging, people have been investing large amounts of time and talents in creating PowerPoint presentations. This was our form of self expression.

Two groups of people come to mind. Business professionals looking for the power of persuasion and Educators looking to structure there materials. I would imagine there is are virtual piles of slides on harddrives that will gain life again due to SlideShare. Sure, you could always save your presentation as HTML, but we all know what kind of user experience that is... I still don't know how to view the next slide in those framesets.

SlideShare is easy with a capital E. and I am amazed by the quality content that is already up on the site. I have posted two presentations here, but I have found many more the I would really like to post about. Such as this show on Microformats...




Let's keep an eye on this application. I'm guessing Yahoo grabs it early, to keep it away from Google, but who knows. The last time I had this type of feeling about a new application it was the first week Writely launched. It just felt right. I also think it is cool that they are using Amazon's S3 hosting platform.

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Another View on SlideShare

Jay Cross posted this review on SlideShare. He didn't give it high marks, noting the margins gave him troubles and the format didn't support audio. I agree, if you saw my earlier posts I had trouble with the margins, but actually think that concept of sharing power point slides as easily as a YouTube video is a really good one. I will continue to use SlideShare to post slides on the web and I am confident that audio support will either come from the company or as a service from another company. That's what is so great about the web2.0 world.


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I know I should probably not post this so fast... but another great presentation. I know some of you out there are focused on learning as art or art as learning. These slides weave into that concept quite well. I would love to hear the audio.


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