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Video killed the radio star, then slideshare; so how to share your presentations?

30 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this Speak PR episode, host Jim James introduces the topic of leveraging online platforms to share PowerPoint presentations. He recounts the origins of SlideShare, founded in 2009 in India by three entrepreneurs as a "YouTube for presentations," and notes its recent acquisition by Scribd (referred to as Scribed). Jim discusses the implications of this change for existing users and explores various methods for distributing presentations online, including using file‑share services, embedding slides on websites, and strategies to attract traffic and reach audiences beyond direct contacts.

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Hello, welcome to this episode of Speak PR. My name is Jim James, and this is the podcast for anybody that's got value locked up in their organization, and they're just looking for ways to release that. And today we're going to talk about the power of presentations online. And it used to be that I would put everything on SlideShare. Now SlideShare was founded in 2009 in India when 3 fellow entrepreneurs gathered together to make a YouTube for presentations. But now SlideShare, as of this year, has been acquired by Scribed, which means that for those of us that were using what was the YouTube for presentations, we now need maybe to change our tack or to look at Scribed. So I'm looking at ways that we can share PowerPoint presentations like a file share, embed on our websites, but also to find traffic for that content, to share it and publish it with more than just the people we