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How Plenary Speakers Are Maximising Their Impact
Last year I happened to notice that David De Roure’s has updated his Facebook status to say that he’d achieved a ‘deci-goble rating‘ on Slideshare. I managed to correctly interpret this to mean that...
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Popular IWMW 2008 Presentations
We encouraged presenters and workshop facilitators at IWMW 2008 to make their slides available on Slideshare using the IWMW2008 tag. And I’m pleased to say that not only have a number of the slides...
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“You’re a Slideshare Rockstar!”– Not!
The April 1 Joke Yesterday (1 st April 2009) I received a couple of email messages from Slideshare which stated that some of the slides which I have uploaded to the Slideshare repository have “been...
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Have Slideshare Avoided Their Ratner Moment?
Background Gerald Ratner was responsible for one of the most famous gaffes in corporate history when “he joked that one of his firm’s products was “total crap”, and boasted that some of its ear rings...
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Slideshare? I’m Now Flirting With Slideboom!
You know what it’s like. You’ve been together for some time. And you get on well together. And then something goes wrong. So you start looking for something new. And you start to get excited about the...
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25 years of PowerPoint. But What Next?
Happy Birthday PowerPoint was born 25 years ago, on 14 August 1984. An article on the BBC News Magazine, entitled “The problem with PowerPoint” points out that “They’re often boring” and goes on to...
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What’s the Value of Using Slideshare?
Back in August Steve Wheeler tweeted that “Ironically there were 15 people in my audience for this Web 3.0 slideshow but >12,000 people have since viewed it http://bit.ly/cPfjjP“. I used that...
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Using Slideshare as a Tool to Help Identify Impact
We were recently asked by the JISC to provide evidence of the impact and take-up of the outputs of the JISC PoWR project – with the email acknowledging that “I know this is difficult data to collect...
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Evidence of Slideshare’s Impact
Use of Slideshare at IWMW Events Last year I wrote a post in which I commented on the popularity of an individual’s slides and speculated on ways in which the 12,000+ views (now 24,400 views!) on...
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Don’t Just Embed Objects; Add Links To Source Too!
I’m a great fan of the JISC’s Access Management blog. Nicole Harris is the main contributor to the blog and Nicole’s interests in issues related to access management (a topic many may find rather dry...
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Trends in Slideshare Views for IWMW Events
“Why does everybody ask for slides during/after a presentation?” “Why does everybody ask for slides during/after a presentation? What do you do with them? I’m genuinely curious.” asked @MattMay last...
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“Your SlideShare account has been suspended”
Loss of Access to Content Hosted on Slideshare On Wednesday 25 September 2013 I received an email message which informed me that my SlideShare account had been suspended. The reason given for this was...
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