02 Slideshare

SlideShare

Don K. Crowther

Content Sharing Sites

SlideShare.com

• Social Media Content Sharing Site

• Ability for you to share your presentations with others

• People can embed your presentations on their sites

• Upload PowerPoint, OpenOffice, PDF

• Can share publicly or privately

Can Create slidecasts

Group Functions

• Friending

• Favoriting

• Events

• Can find and contact others with similar interests

Terms Of Service

• Prohibit commercial use

• But if you abide by good Social Marketing practices by giving value then referencing your site

Value Of Others’ Presentations

• Learn

• Find partners

• Find writers

• Find employees

• Find people for teleseminars, etc.

This Strategy Is Rated…

How To Make Money

• Create presentations

• Turn white papers into presentations

• Use slidecast technology to turn Camtasiavideos into slidecasts

• Turn articles into presentations

• Find other people

• Reference back to your site

Corporate Project

• Create and post at least 5 slide shows and one slidecast

• Reference company in each presentation

• Research marketplace in slideshare, identifying potential partners, affiliates, presenters, etc.