Best Practices: SlideShare

Best Practices: SlideShare

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  Alex Kelly
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  What is ? “Online slide hosting service” “Online social network for sharing presentations and documents” “Online community for sharing presentations”
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  Get to Know • Founded October 2006 • Current Employees: 55 • Monthly Visitors: 60 million • Monthly Pageviews: 140 million
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  In Recent News... “LinkedIn‘snagged’ the presentation- sharing platform for $118.75 million.” LinkedIn: connects the world’s professionals making them more productive and successful SlideShare: powers discovery of people through content, and content through people Together: Manages professional identities and insights, everywhere Mashable
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  Anyone can uploadpresentations and documents to SlideShare for many reasons... •Conduct research •Share Ideas •Share Work •Teach •Connect
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  Anyone can viewpresentations on many different topics... ...download them... ...and reuse or remix them for their own work.
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  What You CanDo On
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  Upload your file Sharepublicly with millions... Or Share privately with colleagues, clients, or intranets.
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  Share on Twitter,Facebook, and LinkedIn Slidecast: sync mp3 audio with slides to create a webinar Leadshare: generate business leads with your presentations SlideShare PRO: premium features-analytics, free pages, branded channels
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  Who uses ? Anyone! • The White House •NASA • US Army and Navy • United Nations • University of Texas • Dell • UNICEF • McGraw-Hill ...and millions of others
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  Partnerships
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  How businesses achievesocial success using 1. Tell Your Story: Presentations make a company more three-dimensional and add personality 2. Highlight Your Experts IBM Expert Network Showcases the latest thinking, research, inspiration videos and more
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  How businesses achievesocial success using 3 and 4. Demand Generation and Social Cross Pollination Eloque: automatically populates its demand generation database with profile information from anyone who completes a form on it’s SlideShare channel Highlights links to its Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube communities right under the channel description
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  How businesses achievesocial success using 5. Share In-Depth Information: Present financial, technical, or other in-depth information that can be difficult to represent on their websites using more traditional tools 6. Spark conversations: Helps to reach and engage whole new audiences 7. Upscale Exposure: If a webinar or conference reached only a few thousand people in it’s original format, SlideShare can create a multiplier effect Mashable