This is a presentation that I created for a class I took sophomore year called "Leadership, Communication and Social Media". It discusses how to use SlideShare first, then reviews the usefulness of the application.
8. Learn/Discover
• Click around and learn from the presentations
• For fun (ptx)
• Academic/industry-related (social media)
• Categories
• Today’s Top SlideShares
• Featured SlideShares
• Featured Topics
• Latest Conferences (groups of SlideShares)
• Trending in Social Media
http://www.slideshare.net/
9. • Not sure why they’re
there
• Two groups I’m
following on LinkedIn
– maybe suggestions
for me to follow on
SlideShare
• Can’t change them
“Technology” and “Education” tabs
10. What if I want to find a specific presentation?
• Click on “More Topics”
11. What if I want to find a specific presentation?
• Go to one of the categories on your header bar
12. What if I want to find a specific presentation?
• Use the search bar at the top
19. My Uploads - Analytics
• Detailed analytics about uploads
• Summary
• Views
• Actions
• Viewers
• Export
• Social Shares
20. Strengths
• Provides instructions
• Easy to understand layout
• Well-organized
• Topics of presentations
• Detailed analysis of presentations
• Select files from variety of storage places
• Spreads reach of presentations
• Can use to strengthen LinkedIn account (summary)
• Free!
21. Weaknesses
• Not easily customizable
• Just a platform
• Few SlideShare features to add to presentations
22. Best Practices
• Look at and learn from other’s presentations
• Use “My Clipboards” to gather and organize liked content created by
others
• Create presentations and share them
• Social media related
• Personal brand related
• Industry related
• Use analytics to improve uploads
Click on “slideshare” and it takes you to this page, with tons of presentations made by other linkedin users
Click on link and then tool around, show them that this, like shown before, is what happens when you click on interest slideshare, then click on one of the presentations. You can go through the ppt, share it, like it, download it, clip it (which I’ll get to later), share on linkedin, twitter, facebook, comment, follow the creator, click on a recommended ppt on the right
Maybe make into a few slides…
Go to a presentation and hover over the slide, in the upper right corner will appear a “clip slide” icon – click on that and it will be clipped – some presentations disable clipping.
Under the “my clipboards” tab, you can create clipboards so when you clip a slide, the presentations can be added to a clipboard you have. If you have multiple clipboards, when you clip something, a pop-up will appear that allows you to change which clipboard to clip the slide to