The document summarizes and compares several online presentation tools: SlideShare allows users to import and share presentations but does not offer online editing. It also has a SlideCast feature to create podcasts under 50MB. Zoho Show and Google Docs allow users to import, edit, and share presentations online as well as conduct live webcasts. Thinkfree offers similar editing and sharing features to PowerPoint. MixerCast focuses on combining various media types into shareable presentations. The document provides details on features, file limits, and purposes of each tool.

1. Online Presentation Tools: SlideShare (plus), Google, Zoho Show, Thinkfree & Mixcaster Patricia F. Anderson <pfa@umich.edu> Health Sciences Libraries, UM May 9, 2008 © 2008 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

2. Online social tools are useful for … Folk who use multiple computers in various locations Discovery of items similar to your selections Sharing resources with peers, managers, students & others Web site development & support Building communities and discovering like-minded individuals

3. Online Presentation Resources When making a presentation, you want pictures, and a few words. And people. Finding Pictures: Google Images Other Image Search Engines Flickr Building your presentation -- Zoho: Show Sharing your presentation (& finding other presentations) -- SlideShare.net

4. Creating Accounts Each account per tool (Flickr, Zoho, Slideshare, Thinkfree) must usually be associated with a unique e-mail address. If creating an account to be shared across an office, consider creating an e-mail list to serve as the contact e-mail address.

5. More: Copyright & Licensing Creative Commons license options for both SlideShare and Flickr Is there an institutional policy? What does your boss think? Most conservative license is “All Rights Reserved.” Next most conservative, but more open, is Creative Commons, non-commercial use only, no derivatives.

6. Slideshare.net: Home

7. Slideshare.net: Home: Featured

8. Slideshare.net: About Content from those who want to get their ideas out: Not-for-profits International schools Consultants Individuals

9. SlideShare.net: About 2 Things to do with SlideShare: Find teaching materials Share teaching materials Share conference slides Review content remotely from secured computers.

10. Slideshare - About sharing Share with all Share with many Share with few NOTES: People can download your presentation without asking you first, unless YOU specify otherwise when uploading the file. People can ask you.

11. Slideshare.net: Things to Do Conference and Event presentation collections

12. Slideshare.net: Tags

13. Slideshare.net: Tag Browse

14. SlideShare.net: Searching No advanced search Sloppy search, but getting better all the time. Content growing rapidly. Pluses: Searches full text of presentation slides, and breaks out full text in display

15. SlideShare.net: My SlideSpace

16. SlideShare.net: My SlideSpace Presentations Favorites Tags Contacts Comments

17. SlidesShare.net: My SlideSpace Feedback & Discussion Who are you reaching? Track use and downloads Build a following, build your reputation

18. SlideShare.net: Slidecast Do it yourself podcast creation: sync slides to audio.

19. SlideShare.net: Slidecast Click “Edit” on an already loaded slide presentation

20. SlideShare.net: Slidecast Need to provide a URL for audio MP3 file - no option to upload file. Assumption is URL needs to be stable / permanent

21. SlideShare.net: Slidecast Can load audio and process right away, or come back later to finish.

22. SlideShare.net: Slidecast Audio synchronization tool requires good vision.

23. SlideShare.net: Slidecast Select slides currently being edited

24. SlideShare.net: Slidecast Select audio range currently being edited Drag bars in audio to mark beginning and end of range.

25. SlideShare.net: Slidecast What it looks like at the end of editing.

26. SlideShare.net: Slidecast What it looks like when it is completed.

27. Zoho Show: Home

28. Zoho Show: What You Can Do

29. Zoho Show: Ways to Use It Backup your presentation, in case: Your computer fries at a conference When you have to use someone else’s computer You are working from a public computer without your preferred presentation software Last minute edits / updates to previously loaded presentation Pseudo Webcast presentations -- conference call + online slideshow you control Interviewing job candidates remotely Guest speakers & consulting presentations

30. Zoho Show: New Presentation

31. Zoho Show: Other Design Styles

32. Zoho Show: Editing Interface

33. Zoho Show: Adding a New Slide

34. Zoho Show: Images & Flickr

35. Zoho Show: Images & Flickr Success!

36. Zoho Show: Menus Import PPT Export as HTML Share with Others

37. Other Free Zoho Online Tools Zoho Writer (word processing) Zoho Sheet (spreadsheet) Zoho Polls (surveys) Zoho Creator (online databases) Zoho Wiki More … at Zoho.com

38. Google Docs Presentation Tool Google’s presentation tool is part of the Google Docs suite of applications

39. Google Docs Presentation Tool NOTE: Can only upload 10Meg files for slide presentations.

40. Google: Special Features Email your files to load Can share files For viewing For editing For presentations More on this soon

41. Google: Edit View

42. Google: Edit View

43. Google: Edit View

44. Google: Edit View

45. Google: Edit View

46. Google: Edit View

47. Google: Importing Images (Oops!)

48. Google: Share & Publish Tabs

49. Google: Sharing Collaborators Viewers Asynchronous “ Create Event” = Synchronous

50. Google: Online Presentation Online presentation > like web conferencing

51. Google: Online Presentation Online presentation > like web conferencing

52. Google: Presentation View

53. Thinkfree Like Zoho, provides a suite of applications

54. Thinkfree Quick Edit for online presentation Power Edit to create Powerpoint compatible documents

55. Thinkfree: Quick Edit

56. Thinkfree: Edit View

57. Thinkfree: Upload Files Upload files - same reasons as for Zoho Show.

58. Thinkfree: Upload Files What uploaded file looks like.

59. Thinkfree: FYI CONS: Not compatible with all browsers New - still needs some fine-tuning Commercial PROS: Interface comfortable to people familiar with Powerpoint Mobile (can update via phone) Commercial (support team?)

60. MixerCast Blends uploaded media files into shareable presentation.

61. MixerCast Upload and annotate various media types

62. MixerCast Wizard available to simplify production.

63. MixerCast Variety of layouts

64. Synopsis Topics: Slideshare : Import, share, no online editing, Slidecast: Podcast, <50meg Zoho Show: Import, edit, share, live webcasting Google: Import, edit, share, export, live webcasting, <10meg Thinkfree : Import, edit, share, export – like PPT MixerCast : Not like PPT, more multimedia, share Contact Info: Patricia Anderson, pfa@umich.edu