Slideshare
(SLYd-shair)
Interactive
What is Slideshare?
Slideshare is an internet site serving as a repository of slide decks, allowing users to download complete decks, clip specific slides, or comment on the work of others.
Key Properties
Here are the core properties of Slideshare:
- Slide-sharing site with over 70 million users
- Allows you to upload your own content and view others’ slides
- Content is easy to locate using the search function
- Interaction can come through liking, commenting, or sharing to other social media platforms
Slideshare Examples
A classic, viral Slideshare presentation
An example showing how you can share a presentation on Slideshare without a presenter.
Use Slideshare to see examples from great slides designers like Garr Reynolds.
Insights that Flow Freely through What's Your Formula?
- "You know how you send out your PowerPoint file after you’ve delivered a presentation? SlideShare is a social media platform that gives everyone in the world access your PowerPoint slides. If you do plan to upload your slides to Slideshare, you can post them without modifying them. . . . Just like you can ride a bicycle without a seat, but both can be a little painful. When you distribute your slides following a presentation, most people who receive them saw your presentation and have an understanding of its context."
- "As with some of the other interactive elements, SlideShare is a tool that can bring your message, concepts, ideas, and content to those outside your normal training circle—both within and outside your organization."
- "Many people know about using Google or YouTube to find content that others have created and bring it into their own training programs. SlideShare is a bit of a lesser-known, hidden gem that not only offers access to a lot of content from presentations others have put together, but some of these slide decks are strong examples of high quality slide design. You could send out others’ decks to learners like you would a blog post or a YouTube video, or they could simply serve as inspiration for how you’d like to present your own content on similar subjects."
CLOSELY RELATED ELEMENTS
Microsoft PowerPoint
Just like you can’t leverage YouTube without videos, you obviously can’t leverage SlideShare without first creating a PowerPoint deck. If you’re facilitating a class on slide design, SlideShare could also be a way to encourage your participants to show you (and their peers) what they’re capable of by assigning a SlideShare upload as part of the course.
Learning Boosts
Don’t forget about the content others have already made available and posted to SlideShare. Sending links to slide decks that are aligned with your content can be a different media that helps keep your topic front-of-mind.
Visual Design
Just like you don’t want to share poorly designed slides with your learners, you really don’t want to share poorly designed slides with the rest of the world. Yes, there are some poorly designed slides that clutter up the SlideShare archives, but at the end of the day, slide decks that don’t adhere to basic principles of visual design are as underwhelming on SlideShare as they are in the training environment.
