1. What is SlideShare?
SlideShare is a website that offers business media such as
documents, pdfs and slide presentations. It is a community
consisting of professionals from various industries, where people
can register and upload their business content. Other individuals
can come in and comment on the media uploaded. The website
has more than 25 million visitors monthly with the numbers
growing quickly.
It 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.
SlideShare was founded in October 2006 and acquired by LinkedIn in
May 2012. It allows users to easily upload and share
presentations, infographics, documents, videos, PDFs, and
webinars. In Q4 of 2013, the site averaged 60 million unique
visitors a month and 215 million page views. SlideShare is among
the top 120 most-visited websites in the world.