Share Your Ideas as a Slideshow Presentation
This blog entry was posted on September 16, 2009.
Much like you would share photos on Flickr.com or videos on YouTube, you can share PowerPoint presentations on SlideShare.net and other similar slide hosting services. These sites convert the very large PPT format over to a web friendly Flash movie that is compact and fast loading.
Slideshow presentations are better than text alone and different than a video. Use these online presentations to increase brand loyalty, training materials, keeping your clients informed, to improve customer satisfaction or even for providing “how to” instructions.
According to Microsoft, more than 30 million presentations are made around the world with PowerPoint every day. You can now recycle that great presentation you created and post your PowerPoint online. Just like videos, these slide shows can be embedded in blogs and on websites. Many have audio options that allow your slideshow to be turned into a webinar.
You can choose to provide as a public viewable file that others can use as a resource. In this case, always provide your website URL to help drive traffic to your website. Visitors who are interested in what you have said will follow the link to your website.
You can also protect the document for private viewing. You can direct clients to these presentations and then talk them through your presentation.
Many of these services offer embed codes so you can host the presentation on their service and then embed the presentation in your blog or website.
Turn your presentation into a self playing webinar. You can add audio narration in your PowerPoint and in some services; this will convert along with graphics into the Flash movie. Some will use a separate audio file that you can synchronize to your slide presentation.
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