If you participated in any of my “How To Plan A Webinar” webinars, you have heard me recommend a tool called SlideShare, which is a FREE service that allows you to share a PowerPoint presentation (as well as other document formats) without having to be live. Slideshare offers many benefits that ordinary file sharing services don’t offer including the ability to:
- Upload and share your PowerPoint for FREE.
- EASILY synch an audio file (mp3) to your PowerPoint and mark the points at which you want the slides to advance (slides will advance automatically). *You don’t need to be a “techy” to be able to do this.
- Set privacy controls.
- Grab an “embed” code which would allow you to place your presentation inside of another web page for playback (same approach as with YouTube).
- Choose if you want to allow people to download your presentation.
- Choose a Creative Commons license for your presentation.
- Track how often your presentation has been viewed.
- Receive feedback/comments on your presentation, and share that activity with social networking services such as Facebook & Twitter.
- Create your own channels (aka categories) as a way to organize multiple presentations, and as a way to allow others to access your content by following your channel or through RSS.
- Offer playback of your presentation without requiring your users to have PowerPoint or other costly software .
If you have a PowerPoint presentation to share that can stand on its own through the inclusion of audio file, and you don’t need to hear back from viewers of the presentation while its occuring, you should try SlideShare. Slideshare will let you share your presentation without the technical worries and difficulties that go along with doing a live webinar. Check Slideshare out for yourself and be sure to checkout some of the the Slideshare featured presentations.
