1. How to use Slideshare
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2. 1. What is slideshare?
SlideShare is the largest community for sharing presentations and documents, the Top 10
tools for Education and E-learning in the worldwide, slideshare is also a useful search engine, it
can find slides almost in any theme. SlideShare was designed to provide services for the business
use.
2. Why Use SlideShare
1. Upload presentations publicly or privately.
2. Download presentations on any topic and reuse or remix.
3. Embed on blogs, websites and companies’ intranets.
4. Share on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
5. Zipcast: free, no need to download, one click achieve web meetings.
6. Leadshare: generate business leads with your presentations, documents, pdfs and videos.
7. Slidecast: synchronize mp3 audio with slides to create a webinar.
8. Embed YouTube videos inside SlideShare presentations.
9. Use SlideShare PRO for premium features like branded channels, analytics, ad free pages etc.
3. How to use slideshare
Step1, signup
Open the homepage (Figure 1) of slideshare via www.slideshare.net, on the top of the right
corner, there are four buttons, first button is for Facebook user login, this button could facilitate
Facebook user to use slideshare. Facebook user do not need to signup in slideshare additionally,
just import Facebook account details into slideshare, and then Facebook user could become
slideshare user. To achieve these processes, first, click blue Facebook login button, and then get
the Facebook login webpage (Figure 2), type in email and password click login button, webpage
will jump to a request permission page, which will import Facebook account data into slideshare
account, click “Allow”, then Facebook user could use the same account also login slideshare.
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4. The second button is for slideshare users login, the third button is for initial
slideshare users’ signup, the last “Advertise” button is for business use.
For initial signup in slideshare, just click Signup button, with the jump of the web
page, comes the signup page (Figure 4), fill up all the boxes, please make sure that the
Email box is valid, cause the new slideshare users need to activate their account via
Email, if the signup procedure goes well, after click signup button, a welcome page
will show up (Figure 5), please ignore the “update now” button, that button is connect
to slideshare Pro, slideshare Pro will charge fees for business use, click skip this, then
initial signup procedure just finished.
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5. Step2, upload the files
Uploading files, click “UPLOAD” button (Figure 6), with the page change, there will appear
two buttons (Figure 7), to choose which button, decide on this slideshare account for public
oriented use or private oriented use, different file may has different use, however, most slideshare
users tend to choose upload publicly, share their presentations with other people. Each
presentation has the unique URL, so users could embed presentation into website, Email or blog.
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6. Step3, some functions to introduce
Here suggest users to finish their “Account settings” in personal interest. The “Privacy Options”
tag in slideshare divided into three main categories and has some specific settings to help to
protect users’ privacy. The more users finish their personal information, the more friends may find
this user.
The slideshare users also could find some companies and personnel to follow, to get the
updated information in the first time. To achieve “follow” function in slideshare, first of all, user
need have a idea about who to follow, for example, user want to follow “apple” this time, just type
apple in the search box, and get some results about apple (Figure 8), choose one (Figure 9), click
“follow” button, then follow procedure just finished.
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7. Figure 9
Last interesting function in slideshare is “Get you widget”, users could find “Get you widget”
button in the bottom of the left hand side of the personal homepage (Figure 10), use this function,
users could customize different web programming code to embed them on the random website or
blog, different widget have different functions.
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