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SlideShare in an interesting new website that allows you to share your slideshow presentations in a number of ways:

  1. You can upload you slideshows to the site where everyone can see them.
  2. You can upload your presentations to the site and then choose who you want to be able to view them by sending email invites.
  3. You can upload your presentations privately so that only you can view them. With this option you will receive a secret URL to your presentation, which means that no one browsing the SlideShare site or the internet will find your presentation accidentally but you can still give this URL to other people. You could for example link to a presentation from your company’s internal website, and then only people who had access to the internal website would be able to find the presentation.
  4. You can easy embed presentations you have stored on SlideShare into your website or blog. If you select the option ‘Allow embedding outside SlideShare’ SlideShare will provide you with a line of code. Then all you need to do is cut and paste this line of code into your website or blog and the presentation will appear (see below for an example).
  5. You can add audio too. With slidecasting you can play any slidedeck synchronized with an audio file.

SlideShare will accept PowerPoint, OpenOffice, and PDF presentations with a maximum file size of 30MB. It does not yet accept PowerPoint 2007 files so if you’re using 2007 when you save your presentation you will have to go to ‘Save As’ and select 97-2003 Presentation.

To learn more about SlideShare click here.