If you're proud of the presentation you've just delivered and want to show it to a large audience, then you can try using Slideshare to share your slides on the internet. Slideshare is a cloud service where you can upload your presentations and share them easily.
Of course if your presentation was a financial report prepared for your CFO, you'd better keep it private on your C: drive, but if you're willing to go public, read on.
Here is an example of application. This week I'm talking about presentations on this blog and I just finalized my presentation on "3 simple steps to improve your presentations" (include link). I obviously want to share it with you, so slideshare immediately comes to mind. I could host the file on my server and give you a link to download it, but who would really want to download yet another large file and wait for the download before they can see it? Slideshare offers a much better alternative.
Why share your slides on Slideshare?
1. You can reach anyone
Slideshare is open to anyone, no need to login or be a premium member to view presentations. When uploading slides, you can choose to make them private for a small group, or public for the whole web to see.
2.Presentations are embedded on your site
All the presentations you upload on Slideshare remain on their server, but you don't need to necessarily view them on the Slideshare website. You can embed a slide viewer with reading controls (next, previous, full screen, etc) on your own website for your readers to view your presentation without ever leaving your site. Exactly like you can do with a Youtube video.
3. No need to download anything
As mentioned earlier, readers don't need to download a presentation file to view it, it is displayed directly on the screen, in the player. This might seem a small detail but it means one less step for your reader to take before viewing your presentation, which can make all the difference on the web, where people have a very short attention span.
4.You get more traffic
People browse or search for presentations on Slideshare, so you will find more viewers for your presentation if you put it on Slideshare than if you simply host it on your website and only share it there. These viewers might then come to your website if they liked what they read (as long as you didn't forget to include a link to your site), so the instant benefit of using Slideshare is finding new readers for your website. Additionally all these links from Slideshare to your website create some good SEO magic and will improve your ranking in search engines, bringing you even more readers.
So here is my presentation, displayed directly in my blog for you to view without going anywhere else.
Question: Do you use slideshare? What do you like about it?
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