1. A review on Slide Share

2. 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)

3. About SlideShare
SlideShare is
a website, where you can host and share your presentations and
documents for others to watch in their browser.
SlideShare is not
an online tool to create and edit presentations.

4. 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! 

5. Upload a presentation
free Pro-Features
19 $/month

6. Upload a presentation
Pro-Features
no Problem
(we‘ll see later)

7. Upload a presentation
Pro-Features
only little problem:
20 MB are free

8. Upload a presentation
Pro-Features
big problem in
professional/
research use

9. 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

10. pay attention to this option
it‘s locked 

11. 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 )

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

13. 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

14. ZipCasts (online meetings)
Your Presentation

15. 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

16. 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