Slideshare is a website launched in 2006 that allows users to upload presentations in various formats and share them with others online. It has over 60 million visitors and 130 million page views per month, making it one of the top 200 most visited sites. Users can create and upload presentations from other apps, add tags and descriptions, and then share or present them on Slideshare. This provides accessibility, compatibility, sharing capabilities without additional downloads or loss of picture quality compared to other options. However, Slideshare can sometimes be slow and animated elements or sound effects may not transfer properly when converting files to Flash online.

1. What is
Slideshare?
By Michelle Kracaw, Eric Dietrich, Becky
Kang

2. Web 2.0- What is it?
-Allows users to interact and
collaborate virtually
-More software and storage facilities
-"Web as a platform"
-Examples: social networking sites,
blogs, hosted services

3. Web 2.0- Why's it important?
-Gives people creative control in
communicating with one another via
social media
-Creative control in communication
-No "passive viewing"
-Examples: Information sharing, user-
centered design, collaboration, etc...

4. Slideshare- Background Info.
-Founded in 2006
-Made to make presentations easier and more
convenient
-Originally created for businesses; Now used for
entertainment as well
-60 million vistors and 130 million page views/month
-1/200 most visted sites
-Similar to Youtube but for slideshows

5. Slideshare- How do you use it?
Instructions: -Create presentation on
separate app
-Sign up and create a profile
-Click upload and select file
-Add tags, description, etc..
-Share or present

6. Slideshare- Advantages
-Accessibility/Compatibility
-Sharing
-Privacy
-No additional downloads
-No loss in pic. quality

7. Slideshare- Disadvantages
-Can be slow
-Animation and sound effects included
will be lost after online conversion into
Flash
-Can only be uploaded to site, not
created on it
-Apple users have to convert to PDF

8. Works Cited
O'Reilly, Tim. "What Is Web 2.0" O'Reilly
Media. O'Reilly, 30 Sept. 2005. Web. 16 Oct.
2012.<http://oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-
web-20.html?>
"Why you should use SlideShare?." About Us.
SlideShare., n.d. Web. 16 Oct 2012.<http://www.slide
share.net/about>.