A review on Slide Share

Contents

• About SlideShare

• Sign up process

• Upload a presentation

• Edit presentation details

• SlideCasts (add an audio track)

• Videos in presentations

• ZipCasts (online meetings)

• Conclusions (pro/contra)

About SlideShare

SlideShare isa website, where you can host and share your presentations and documents for others to watch in their browser.

SlideShare is notan online tool to create and edit presentations.

Sign up process

It‘s reasy: • Nickname & Password• Email address• Enter a CAPTCHA

That‘s it!

A word about the privacy policy:SlideShare works like Google: It collects all available data and does with it, what it wants, except for giving it away.• “We also use your Personal Information to contact you with SlideShare marketing or promotional

materials…”• “When you visit the Site, whether as a registered SlideShare user […] or a non-registered visitor just

browsing […], our servers automatically record information that your browser sends…” Got you!

Upload a presentation

19 $/monthPro-Featuresfree

Upload a presentation

no Problem (we‘ll see later)

Pro-Features

Upload a presentation

only little problem: 20 MB are free

Pro-Features

Upload a presentation

big problem in professional/research use

Pro-Features

Edit presentation details

Not all details were shown in the upload window.

To get full access to all presentation details:

• click on your user name in the upper-right corner• select My Uploads• select a presentation and click Edit / Delete

it‘s locked

pay attention to this option

SlideCasts (add an audio track)

You can hold your presentation „off-line“ by adding an audio track.

Please note that music is not allowed! (I suppose the server automatically checks, if the MP3 contains voice recordings only )

Videos in presentations

With a free account, SlideShare just doesn‘t host videos for you, but you can easily integrate YouTube videos!

ZipCasts (online meetings)

You can hold your presentation „on-line“ by inviting others to „slide meetings“.

click on you user name in the upper-right corner and select My ZipCasts

schedule for a certain time

start immediately

ZipCasts (online meetings)

Your Presentation

Conclusions - pro

• easy to set up and use• free basic version• ZipCasts for free slide meetings• Plugins for Firefox and PowerPoint available• supports multiple document formats :

• PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)• Word (.doc, .docx, .rtf)• OpenOffice (.odt, .ods)• Apple (.zip, .key)• PDF• Google Docs

Conclusions - contra

• presentations are always public in the free basic version• quite expensive pro-version with little extra benefit• a bit inconsistent, sometimes distracting website layout and

ads• PowerPoint animations and other features are not supported:

• simple animations, such as „appear“, are not displayed; the objects are just there from the beginning

• the upload of presentations with more complex animations failed• the arrows in this presentation were not rendered properly