In a post on Inc.com entitled "Slideshare: An Easy Way to Present," author Curt Finch got me thinking. He noted how Sally Hogshead uses Slideshare on her blog. I confess that I had relegated Slideshare only to LinkedIn but that post got me thinking about other possibilties.
Then, John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing (if you don't have his blog bookmarked, you should), provided another insightful and relevant post, "How to Keep Tabs on the Greatest Presentations Made Everyday." He walks us through using Slideshare to search for the most recent presentations on a topic of our choice:
The way you make Slideshare show you the latest is to search using the tag attribute. Instead of using the search box just type your search into the address bar. So if I want presentations on small business I would type http://slideshare.net/tag/small-business into that address bar in my browser and presto – I get the most recent presentation in chronological order. But, it gets even better, I can subscribe to this search using an RSS reader like Google Reader and then each day I get the most current presentation sent my way. I can scroll through that day’s list and see if I want to view any or just ignore them all.
Check out both posts and begin to leverage Slideshare for your own purposes.
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