SlideShare is a great application most of you know about and use - it allows everyone to share PowerPoint presentations and decks easily and effectively. And among other things they have The World's Best Presentation Contest every year.
Now the SlideShare folks have come up with another new function. They worked with Microsoft on the "SlideShare Ribbon" which lets you use the full functionality of SlideShare from within PowerPoint. I think this is the first time a Web 2.0 property has been embedded so deeply into desktop productivity software.
You can download to SlideShare, upload, search, comment, and bookmark, all from within PowerPoint. And it gives the aspiring social media marketer a nice console for seeing how much reach (views, downloads, favoritings, etc).
Here is an introduction to the SlideShare Ribbon. It's a great tool, but for now it's Windows only - I understand the Mac version will be on the way before long.
So if you use PP and a PC and Windows, here is where you can get and install the SlideShare Ribbon.
Bert, wouldn’t you think Apple’s Keynote 4’s ability to transform your Keynote file into a Quicktime movie for direct uploading to YouTube (as an export options in Keynote) is the first embedding of Web 2.0 capabilities? And we’re talking here of full transitions and effects, including voice over if this was chosen.
Les,
Great point. Keynote has much greater capability than PowerPoint, but this at least adds to PP. But SlideShare is a great help to all PP users, and hopefully will have Keynote app soon.
Thanks,
Bert
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