Eight Great Ways to Share Slides Online

Begin with a Pow­er­Point:

1. SlideShare is prob­a­bly the best known and most used presentation-sharing plat­form. LOTS of pre­sen­ta­tions to view, and options for post­ing your own either pub­licly or pri­vately. There are easy con­nec­tions to LinkedIn and Face­book. SlideShare accepts Pow­er­Point, Open Office and Keynote pre­sen­ta­tions, but does not pre­serve ani­ma­tion, tran­si­tions, or nar­ra­tion, and does not sup­port embed­ded audio or video.

2. Slide­Boom con­verts Pow­er­Point to Flash, and will pre­serve move­ment and sound. The site offers search-and-share capa­bil­i­ties sim­i­lar to SlideShare, along with a Blog Side­bar Wid­get and a free Pow­er­Point add-in (iSpring) that enables you to con­vert a pre­sen­ta­tion to Flash in Pow­er­Point. A basic Slide­Boom account is free, and there is also a Pro account that includes more stor­age and added fea­tures for $99 a year. Slide­Boom also offers sophis­ti­cated busi­ness solutions.

3.  SlideServe is very sim­i­lar to the basic ver­sion of Slide­Boom.

4.  Scribd is quite dif­fer­ent from the first three plat­forms listed. It’s a very pop­u­lar (50 mil­lion view­ers a month) doc­u­ment pub­lish­ing site that enables users to upload all sorts of file formats—including Pow­er­Point presentations–for con­ver­sion to iPa­per, a beau­ti­ful online read­ing for­mat. Scribd also pro­vides sophis­ti­cated com­mu­nity and search tools, plus an iPa­per viewer that can be embed­ded on your own web­site. Scribd does not sup­port any tran­si­tions, ani­ma­tion or embed­ded media in presentations.

Can begin with­out a PowerPoint:

5.  208 Slides is some­thing of a hybrid, and the main goal seems to be sim­plic­ity. It lets you cre­ate and share slides via its online application–which is pretty basic–or you can upload a Pow­er­Point pre­sen­ta­tion and then enhance it, using a stream­lined inter­face and tools that let you gather media eas­ily. Then you can send the fin­ished pre­sen­ta­tion to SlideShare, or down­load it to Pow­er­Point. No tran­si­tions or animation.

6.  Slid­e­Rocket is intended as a replace­ment, not an accom­pa­ni­ment, for Pow­er­Point. It offers a fully func­tional pre­sen­ta­tion devel­op­ment appli­ca­tion, with stun­ning 3-D tran­si­tion effects. Although you can store and share pre­sen­ta­tions via Slide Rocket, there is no social platform—the focus is on cre­ation. The basic account is free, with addi­tional account lev­els (that include extra fea­tures like web meet­ings and pre­sen­ta­tion ana­lyt­ics) avail­able at $10 and $20 per month.

7.  Slide doesn’t cre­ate con­ven­tional slideshows at all, and has noth­ing to do with Pow­er­Point. It lets you cre­ate a “show” con­tain­ing images (which you upload or select from a social media site), then apply an effect (such as rotat­ing the images, col­lag­ing them, melt­ing them, etc.) and option­ally add audio from Slide’s music library. The images then play in the slide space, which is inside a “skin” that can be cus­tomized (for exam­ple, the images can play on a drive-in movie screen). Finally, you post the show on one or more social media accounts, or get the code and embed it on your own site, or email it. Slide defines itself as a “social enter­tain­ment application.”

8.  Zoho Show is part of the Zoho suite, which pro­vides a long list of online alter­na­tives to desk­top appli­ca­tions (Zoho Write, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Project, and so on). Show can start with a Pow­er­Point pre­sen­ta­tion, but pro­vides a nice toolset for cre­at­ing slides directly, includ­ing some attrac­tive themes. It repli­cates much Pow­er­Point func­tion­al­ity, but tran­si­tions and ani­ma­tion are not yet avail­able. Zoho makes it easy to export (to HTML, PDF, PPT, etc.), pub­lish, and share presentations.

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