why i love slideshare

I’ve fallen in love with Slideshare

And so will you

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Slideshare – What is it?

• “A Document sharing site”• Either publicly or privately• You have a PowerPoint

presentation to make and you want your team members to “vet” it. Slideshare is the perfect medium to share it with your team.

• How about that word document, easy as pie, turn it into a PDF file and upload it in seconds.

• Infographics – start uploading


Slideshare – just keeps growing

“With over 60 million monthly visitors, SlideShare has an impressive audience.

Claimed to be in Top 120 largest sites globally! “

- Carrie Morgan – Senior Digital PR Consultant @morgancarrie


More than 10 millionpresentation uploads

Since 2007 when Slideshare was created

50 million visitors

3 billions views a month

http://www.cmo.com/articles/2014/3/10/mind_blowing_stats_slideshare.html


LinkedIn buys Slideshare for $119M in 2012

SlideShare began with a simple goal: To share knowledge online. Since then, SlideShare has grown

to become the world’s largest community for sharing

presentations and other

professional content. http://www.linkedin.com/company/slideshare


Why do I love it !!!!!EASE OF USE – • yes it is so easy. I don’t need to know HTML, Java,

or be a “webmaster”DIFFERENT MEDIUMS • Infographic’s – #1 liked medium on Slideshare• Great for PowerPoint presentations, • PDF – any document that can be converted to a

PDF can be uploadedPUBLIC OR PRIVATE• Keep it internal within your company or send it out

to Clients.SHARE IT ON ALL YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA SITES AT THE CLICK OF A BUTTON


The Quiet Giant of Content Marketing

Not only is it easy to share as a stand-alone presentation, it can be partnered with all your Social Media Sites. • Create a blog from it, and then embed it

right in the blog• Tweet it, LinkedIn, etc, EASY EASY EASY

to attach it

http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketshare/2013/02/28/slideshare-the-quiet-giant-of-content-marketing/


Looking for Content, check out Slideshare

Have I told you how much I love it, here’s a few more reasons:

• It’s a great research tool• Very credible resources• A great place to find keynote speeches from

conventions, etc• The Presentations are easy to read:

• 8 to 25 slides• Point forms, not real wordy like some webpages can

be• Easy to flip through to the pertinent points


Market Your Company/Yourself

Upload your Sales Brochures Create a Slideshare Sales Kit Introduce your Employees The possibilities are endless


Slideshare and Google

Did I mention that Google loves Slideshare links.

It’s very searchable.

You can add Keywords and Categories to your presentation.


Some of my favourite Slides

http://www.slideshare.net/jeremywaite/the-52-best-social-media-quotes?qid=29b17276-b873-496d-807f-f1723e28fdb2&v=default&b=&from_search=3

http://www.slideshare.net/morgancarrie/cision-digital-pr-webinar?qid=dd051fa5-b321-4405-8097-b60d433c7b98&v=default&b=&from_search=2

http://www.slideshare.net/ThePersuader/the-essential-skills-to-effective-recruitment-30982205?qid=b2924792-fe9c-40de-9ba8-c7648975c24a&v=qf1&b=&from_search=8

Oh yes and this one














So what are you waiting for

www.slideshare.net

Set up an account

And start producing…..

http://www.slideshare.net/


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