SlideShare is an online slide hosting service and social network for sharing presentations and documents. It was founded in 2006 and currently has 55 employees with 60 million monthly visitors and 140 million monthly pageviews. In 2022, LinkedIn acquired SlideShare for $118.75 million to connect professionals through shared content. On SlideShare, anyone can upload, view, download, and reuse or remix presentations on many topics for research, sharing ideas, work, teaching, and connecting with others. It is used by individuals, businesses, organizations like NASA, the White House, and United Nations.

1. Alex Kelly

2. What is ?
“Online slide hosting service”
“Online social network for
sharing presentations and
documents”
“Online community for sharing presentations”

3. Get to Know
• Founded October 2006
• Current Employees: 55
• Monthly Visitors: 60 million
• Monthly Pageviews: 140 million

4. In Recent News...
“LinkedIn ‘snagged’ the presentation-
sharing platform for $118.75 million.”
LinkedIn: connects the world’s professionals
making them more productive and successful
SlideShare: powers discovery of people
through content, and content through people
Together: Manages professional identities and
insights, everywhere
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5. Anyone can upload presentations and documents to
SlideShare for many reasons...
•Conduct research
•Share Ideas
•Share Work
•Teach
•Connect

6. Anyone can view presentations
on many different topics...
...download them...
...and reuse or remix them for
their own work.

8. What You Can Do On

9. Upload your file
Share publicly
with millions...
Or
Share privately
with colleagues, clients, or intranets.

10. Share on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
Slidecast:
sync mp3 audio with slides to create a webinar
Leadshare:
generate business leads with your presentations
SlideShare PRO:
premium features-analytics, free pages, branded channels

11. Who uses ?
Anyone!
• The White House •NASA
• US Army and Navy • United Nations
• University of Texas • Dell
• UNICEF • McGraw-Hill
...and millions of others

12. Partnerships

13. How businesses achieve social success using
1. Tell Your Story: Presentations make a
company more three-dimensional and add
personality
2. Highlight Your Experts
IBM Expert Network
Showcases the latest thinking,
research, inspiration videos and more

14. How businesses achieve social success using
3 and 4. Demand Generation and Social Cross Pollination
Eloque: automatically populates its demand
generation database with profile information from
anyone who completes a form on it’s SlideShare
channel
Highlights links to its Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and
YouTube communities right under the channel
description

15. How businesses achieve social success using
5. Share In-Depth Information: Present financial,
technical, or other in-depth information that can be
difficult to represent on their websites using more
traditional tools
6. Spark conversations: Helps to reach and engage
whole new audiences
7. Upscale Exposure: If a webinar or conference
reached only a few thousand people in it’s original
format, SlideShare can create a multiplier effect
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