Slideshare

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Introduction

Slidesharing and hosting services are part of the social media and web 2.0 revolution. These websites allow users to upload, view, comment and share slideshows that have been created using powerpoints and other presentation programs. According to Alexa and Compete rankings, the most popular slidesharing services are Slideshare, MyPlick, Slideboom, SlideServe, Vcasmo, Zentation and Zoho Show. Other players in this space include Scribd, DocStoc, and SlideRocket (a cloud-based PowerPoint alternative).

A recent addition to the health and medical slidesharing services is SlideWorld.

Existing courses on social media tend to focus on tools and how they are used. Sometimes the discourse ventures into extreme examples of its (ab)use, such as Facebook taunts, Twitter addictions, the Craiglist murder, etc. However, for librarians and information professionals, a more relevant angle is the larger information ecosystem that has developed around social media.

Introduction

"SlideShare is a new service launching (in 2006) ...that lets users upload PowerPoint or Open Office presentation files and share them through a You Tube-like interface." - TechCrunch 2006

SlideShare is a community web service that allows sharing and embedding of presentations that contain images, graphics, text and embedded video, created using powerpoint, portable digital format (PDF) or Open Office that are uploaded by the community. Academic librarians who want to share or publicize their presentations such as those used in their work at conferences or meetings are typical users of SlideShare. The service provides a mechanism for putting your content out there and in the cloud which has application in terms of your professional development and its ability to embed content on your blog or other website allows you to distribute your presentations to a wide audience. Embedded presentations can be used as learning objects and to help you deliver your information literacy programs. SlideShare is said to be the largest global community for sharing presentations and slide shows, currently supporting the top eleven international languages namely English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Romanian and Italian.

Have you considered using SlideShare?

• share presentations, documents and PDFs with a network of 25 million monthly visitors
• embed your SlideShare presentations on LinkedIn and via your blog or website
• encourages you to share ideas, connect with others, and generate interest in your work
• embed slideshows into your own blog or website.
• share slideshows publicly or privately. There are several ways to share privately.
• synch audio to your slides.
• join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests.
• download original files

Major learning objectives

• What is SlideShare?
  • a service for sharing presentations and slideshows
  • upload your PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Keynote or PDF presentations, tag them, embed them into your blog, wiki, website, Vista course, browse other presentations, and comment on individual slides
  • users can upload, view and share presentation files
  • share ideas & work-related documents
  • conference presentations, classroom slides, self-archived copy of articles
  • embed slideshows into website or blog
  • download original powerpoint files (if author permits)

• How do you use SlideShare?
  • Share privately (friends) or publicly (everyone).
  • Add audio or video (YouTube) to slides.
  • Join groups to connect with others with similar interests.
  • 'Favourite’ presentation to express interest and support to author.
  • Share presentation by embedding on website or VLE.
  • Use SlideShare to market yourself, your ideas, your work.

• How does SlideShare work?
  • Search via ‘Category’.
  • Upload presentation instead of sending multiple emails.
  • Send link to presentation or embed complete presentation into webpage.
  • Tag presentations to make them searchable by others.
  • Related presentations listed alongside your presentations based on tags and title.

• SlideShare presentation explained
  • Share Email link to colleagues
  • Favourite: Mark for future reference
  • Get File: Download original presentation
  • Share: email link to colleagues
  • Post to: Easy embed instructions for Blogger, WordPress, Twitter, etc

• Presentation Controls: Next, Previous, Home, End, Full Screen
  • Presentation Statistics User
  • UserID and when presentation was uploaded to SlideShare Profile
  • Profile Avatar Embed : copy this code to embed presentation into your web page Statistics
  • Number of individual views, # of people who have marked it as a ‘favourite’, and individual times the presentation has been embedded in websites.
  • Description : Presentation description

• Where do you begin?
  • Register with SlideShare (if not already signed up).
  • Update account Profile settings (avatar, contact details, email address, friends, etc).
  • Set default settings for all presentations that you will upload (privacy, download, etc)
  • Upload your first presentation.
  • Assign appropriate ‘tags’ to presentation.
  • Your Presentation
  • Cut-and-paste ‘embed’ code into website, blog, VLE.
  • YouTube clip will play automatically.
  • Click ‘Full Screen’ to present to classroom.

• What else is there?
  • Use to host presentations and embed / link to from own website.
  • Use as ‘source’ for presentations in classroom by uploading and accessing SlideShare when needed (must ensure Internet connection).
  • Use to ‘send’ presentations to Conference organizers
  • Conference & Meetings
  • Create SlideShare ‘Group’ or ‘Event’
  • Ask presenters to submit presentations to Group/Event
  • Set presentations to private, and share with known SlideShare Group/Event users (friends)
  • Peer-Review presentations online with SlideShare
  • Release presentations online AFTER the conference so delegates to view & download

• How can faculty, staff and students use SlideShare?
  • same way you do, namely to
  • Register, Upload, Embed / link
  • Share / Favourite
  • Use Twitter-style hashtag in description to make it easy to find all work related to class.
  • This reduces volume of data in email inbox.

• SlideShare Widget ... what’s that?
  • Create ‘widget’ to display SlideShare
  • Copy-and-paste code into webpage or blog
  • Display all your presentations at once with quick-links to archived presentations.
  • Landscape (shown) or Portrait orientation.

References

• Six Slides of Separation http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/6-ways-to-share-more-content/
• JISC. Using SlideShare to Share Presentations. http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/crossmedia/advice/slideshare/
• http://opus.bath.ac.uk/17539/1/chapter-18.pdf
• UBC Library. Tools for Outreach and Teaching Series. "Getting the Message Out" - http://tots.pbworks.com/Communication-Tools
• http://opus.bath.ac.uk/18605/1/chapter-18.pdf
• http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/working_wikily/
• http://www.camosun.ca.libguides.com/content.php?pid=78046&sid=577767
• http://www.nosolousabilidad.com/articulos/academic_libraries.htm "SlideShare is used for all the presentations created for the library’s information skills program and some faculty presentations used for teaching and research." and "Integration of social tools in the library’s web sites has been marked since it has been observed, and it has demonstrated the connections with RSS, blogs, Slideshare, vodcast, podcast, chat, among others. Web 2.0 in the libraries is much more than the use of social tools; it includes fomenting communication, collaboration, and participation of the users and their interaction with the librarians (Stephens, Collins; 2007). These three libraries have begun to adopt the web 2.0 tools to create communities and promotes sharing of experiences."
• http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2
• http://openeducator.blogspot.com/2010/01/using-slideshare-in-blended-learning.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyje2qM4igg
• http://www.crunchbase.com/company/slideshare
• http://learning-affordances.wikispaces.com/Ecological+narratives%3F
• http://www.wikio.com/article/slideshare-youtube-powerpoint-177440363
• http://www.socialbrite.org/2010/06/10/9-ways-nonprofits-should-be-using-slideshare/
  • SlideShare is a free service for sharing presentations, slideshows and pdf documents over the web. Slideshare supports importing presentations from PowerPoint, OpenOffice.org Impress, and PDF files. The site implements most common Web 2.0 design and interaction patterns so users can add, tag, rate, comment, and embed their content. Once a file is uploaded, it is visible to the public. Terms from slides can be searched via search engines. The user who uploads a presentation can choose to make the slide show available to be downloaded.
  • Slideshare is linked with Creative Commons so various attribution licenses are supported. In addition, these presentations can be retrieved at any computer without need for USB drives or other storage devices. In other words, presentations in Slideshare can be held before a conference for the presenters use and then reviewed afterwards by guests. Like YouTube , a presentation can be viewed in the small screen or take the full screen of a monitor.
  • Here is the Hypertext2010 page. If you would like to share your presentation either publicly or with certain individuals and would like this uploaded under the hypertext09 account, please let us know. Thanks!
• If you want to upload to your own SlideShare account, then please use the tag "ht2010", you can then find all slides using these tags as http://www.slideshare.net/tag/ht2010
• http://nitinbadjatia.com/2008/12/16/slideshare-makes-powerpoint-a-social-application/
• http://scottmeis.com/2010/06/11/whats-your-slideshare-strategy/