SlideShare, founded in 2009 as YouTube for presentations, was acquired by Scribd. Jim James walks through how to share PowerPoint decks online: file-sharing services, embedding on websites, and driving traffic beyond your immediate circle.
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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