Thomas Nicholson

Back in 2006 I read about a new Web 2.0 company called SlideShare. The site hosts presentations that you can upload and share. The site converts your PowerPoint into a Flash slide show. I used the site for just over a year until I upgraded from PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007.  After that I was having issues with the lack of *.pptx support. They fixed that but I never went back to using SlideShare. I recently learned that they have a plug-in for PowerPoint 2007 that allows you to manage your slides from inside PowerPoint.   They’re also adding some nice features like Twitter integration. So when you publish a new slide, it will also send a Tweet about it.  As the new year has begun I am looking for ways to improve my work-flow to get more done.  I think I will start using SlideShare again and this new plug-in will make my work easier.

I know not everyone uses PowerPoint, but for the few that do SlideShare is a great way to share your content online. I have been waiting for Google Documents to have better “presentation” support but at this time its very poor compared to SlideShare.

So if you create PowerPoints, and want an easy way to share them, checkout SlideShare.  If your using PowerPoint 2007 get the “Ribbon” plug-in which is free.  If anyone is using SlideShare or another only presentation service I would like to hear about it in the comments. 

UPDATE: I would also like to let everyone know that to install the plug-in you need Windows .NET Framework 3.5 installed.