Assignment #5 for CMN 450

3. What is SlideShare?
◇ Founded in 2006
◇ Goal: making knowledge sharing easy
◇ Joined the LinkedIn Family in 2012
◇ Over 18 million uploads in 40 content
categories
◇ Top 100 most-visited websites of the world
◇ Get up to speed on any topic - you can find
experts from every topic imaginable

4. A SlideShare can be
presented in the form of….
◇ Presentations
◇ Infographics
◇ Documents
◇ & Videos

6. Who uses
SlideShare?
Industry Leaders &
Entrepreneurs
◇ Guy Kawasaki (Silicone Valley)
◇ Eric Schmidt (co-founded of
Google’s parent Alphabet)
◇ Reid Hoffman (co-founder
LinkedIn)
◇ Arianna Huffington
(co-founder of The Huffington Post)
Education
◇ Stanford Graduate
School of Business
◇ Lynda.com
◇ edX
◇ Jane Hart
Media
◇ Mashable
◇ CNNMoney
◇ The Next Web
◇ The Economist
Group Businesses
◇ Dell
◇ Ogilvy
◇ Penguin Random House
◇ Accenture
Nonprofits &
Government
◇ The White House
◇ World Economic Forum
◇ Lean In
◇ Rockefeller Foundation
Conference Speakers
◇ South by Southwest
◇ Dreamforce
◇ Cannes Lion
◇ Lean Startup Conference

7. Anyone.

8. Why use SlideShare over
other Research?
◇ LEARN FASTER, SMARTER.
◇ Instead of searching multiple different
websites and scrolling through
numerous pages of text, you can flip
through a SlideShare deck and absorb
the same information in a fraction of
the time.

9. What to upload?
Options are Limitless:
◇ How-To Guides
◇ Best Quotes
◇ Life and Work
Hacks
◇ Infographics
◇ Data and Stats
◇ Case Studies
◇ 101 Guides
◇ Photo Essays
◇ Travel Guides
◇ School Projects
◇ Recipes
◇ Leadership
Advice
◇ Visual Resumes
◇ Investor
Reports

13. You can narrow down your search by adding filters!

14. “
“In today’s world of visual communication, design is an
important element of your content you can’t ignore:
Visuals are processed 60,000x faster than words, and
can increase a viewer’s comprehension by 89%. As we
say at SlideShare, visual is viral.”
- SlideShare

15. Tips & Tricks
◇ Balance
Use symmetry and asymmetry to emphasize
certain elements
◇ Emphasis
Make the most important element of your
presentation stand out
◇ Unity
Create a consistent visual theme throughout your
slides
◇ Movement
Use elements like curved lines to encourage the
eye to move from one point to the next.

16. Let’s Take a Look!

17. One Last Thing!

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