2. What is SLIDESHARE?
SlideShare is an American hosting service for
professional content including presentations,
infographics, documents, and videos. Users can upload
files privately or publicly in PowerPoint, Word, PDF,
or OpenDocument format.
3. The website was originally meant to be used for
businesses to share slides among employees more
easily, but it also has expanded to become a host
of many slides that are uploaded merely to
entertain.
4. Although the website is primarily a slide hosting
service, it also supports documents, PDFs, videos
and. SlideShare also provides users the ability to
rate, comment on, and share the uploaded
content.
5. The website gets an estimated 80 million unique visitors a
month, and has about 38 million registered
users. SlideShare's biggest competitors
include Zoho.com, Scribd.com, Issuu and edocr. Some of
the notable users of SlideShare include The White
House, NASA, World Economic Forum, State of
Utah, O'Reilly Media, Hewlett Packard and IBM.
