Comments on: SlideShare Rocks My World http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/ Entrepreneur | Writer | Speaker Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:58:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Patrick http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-110794 Patrick Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:26:33 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/#comment-110794 As much as I've enjoyed watching the battle royale above.. @Rich - SlideShare is not a personal attack on your values ;) Haha, seriously though - it's a rad platform for sharing ideas in powerpoint format, not necessarily presentations in the way we understand them. You're perfectly correct in that the speaker IS the presentation, and not the other way around - the powerpoint should be a visual aid only, not the entire speech. Submitting one of your presentations should effectively be pointless, but using it as a tool and sharing service for communicating ideas in an assembled document is worthwhile. @Mike - would it not be a good idea to include a narrative at the bottom of your slides? (Not sure if you do already), or doing a VideoCast on uStream or similiar? This way you can give a full presentation, slides included in video format and use SlideShare in an auxiliary download service. Enjoying your blog, keep it rocking :) As much as I’ve enjoyed watching the battle royale above..

@Rich – SlideShare is not a personal attack on your values ;)

Haha, seriously though – it’s a rad platform for sharing ideas in powerpoint format, not necessarily presentations in the way we understand them.

You’re perfectly correct in that the speaker IS the presentation, and not the other way around – the powerpoint should be a visual aid only, not the entire speech. Submitting one of your presentations should effectively be pointless, but using it as a tool and sharing service for communicating ideas in an assembled document is worthwhile.

@Mike – would it not be a good idea to include a narrative at the bottom of your slides? (Not sure if you do already), or doing a VideoCast on uStream or similiar? This way you can give a full presentation, slides included in video format and use SlideShare in an auxiliary download service.

Enjoying your blog, keep it rocking :)

]]> By: Rich...! http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-3869 Rich...! Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:32:58 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/#comment-3869 Mike, to get back to this again, trust me here, please. Never, ever send your slides without yourself (ever). If you're thinking like that, your slides are over-populated, and thus damaging your message in its primary purpose. Your slides must not be self-explanatory. I'm a geek, I love tech, I love new ideas and new things, I'll try anything once, I can even be humble sometimes, but not this time. You are wrong, and so is slideshare. Ignore me to the detriment of your audiences. Oh, and I'm not alone in my thinking: http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2006/12/slideshare_and_.html Mike, to get back to this again, trust me here, please. Never, ever send your slides without yourself (ever).

If you’re thinking like that, your slides are over-populated, and thus damaging your message in its primary purpose. Your slides must not be self-explanatory.

I’m a geek, I love tech, I love new ideas and new things, I’ll try anything once, I can even be humble sometimes, but not this time. You are wrong, and so is slideshare. Ignore me to the detriment of your audiences.

Oh, and I’m not alone in my thinking:

http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2006/12/slideshare_and_.html

]]> By: Mike http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-932 Mike Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:16:11 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/#comment-932 Rich...! Here's an application: each time I do a preso at a conference I get requests for the slides. Why not use a service like this in that case, host it online, people can access, comment and interact at will instead of 5Mb+ emails going back and forth. What say you? Rich…! Here’s an application: each time I do a preso at a conference I get requests for the slides. Why not use a service like this in that case, host it online, people can access, comment and interact at will instead of 5Mb+ emails going back and forth. What say you?

]]> By: Rich...! http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-872 Rich...! Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:19:54 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/#comment-872 Sure, you could use it for images, but that's not what it's for, we both know that. It's meant for presos (hell, they even say that themselves), and that's a bad thing. If you wanted to upload an image set might I suggest flickr? As for allowing people to interpret your slides on their own, is that really what you want? Generally speaking, it shouldn't be. I still think it's a crap service, and more to the point, a dangerous one that spreads the over-populated presentation plague...! Sure, you could use it for images, but that’s not what it’s for, we both know that. It’s meant for presos (hell, they even say that themselves), and that’s a bad thing. If you wanted to upload an image set might I suggest flickr?

As for allowing people to interpret your slides on their own, is that really what you want? Generally speaking, it shouldn’t be.

I still think it’s a crap service, and more to the point, a dangerous one that spreads the over-populated presentation plague…!

]]> By: Mike http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-867 Mike Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:50:28 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/#comment-867 Don't be full of crap Rich...! Not everyone is a presenter, and not all 'slides' need to accompany a speaker! C'mon! Think www.postsecret.blogspot.com - powerful 'slides' that can be shared without a speaker accompanying them. SlideShare simply offers new ways to share static images. My slides (the one's I use in my presentation) have less and less text all the time as I get more confident speaking on my subject. I can share with with SlideShare and allow people the opportunity to interpret on their own. I still think it's a killer service - :P Don’t be full of crap Rich…! Not everyone is a presenter, and not all ‘slides’ need to accompany a speaker! C’mon!

Think http://www.postsecret.blogspot.com – powerful ‘slides’ that can be shared without a speaker accompanying them. SlideShare simply offers new ways to share static images.

My slides (the one’s I use in my presentation) have less and less text all the time as I get more confident speaking on my subject. I can share with with SlideShare and allow people the opportunity to interpret on their own.

I still think it’s a killer service – :P

]]> By: Rich...! http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-863 Rich...! Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:11:41 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/#comment-863 No dude, this is a god-awful service! It encourages people to create slides with too much text. This is what kills presentations everywhere. Visuals are there to support a speaker. Visuals should thus go nowhere without the speaker that presents them. It's like sending the ingredients without the chef. You're not getting the same meal. Fuck, you have no idea how angry shit like this makes me (anal, I know)...! No dude, this is a god-awful service! It encourages people to create slides with too much text. This is what kills presentations everywhere.

Visuals are there to support a speaker. Visuals should thus go nowhere without the speaker that presents them. It’s like sending the ingredients without the chef.

You’re not getting the same meal.

Fuck, you have no idea how angry shit like this makes me (anal, I know)…!

]]> By: Kapil Mohan http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-740 Kapil Mohan Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:07:19 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/#comment-740 Thats a nice term. SlideCasting! Thats a nice term. SlideCasting!

]]> By: Dennis McDonald in Alexandria, Virginia USA http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/comment-page-1/#comment-667 Dennis McDonald in Alexandria, Virginia USA Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:16:10 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/10/14/slideshare-rocks-my-world/#comment-667 I agree it within yur own web page.t's fiendishly easy to use, but I'd still like a tool that doesn't require the copying and pasting of code in order to display an object in a web page. I agree it within yur own web page.t’s fiendishly easy to use, but I’d still like a tool that doesn’t require the copying and pasting of code in order to display an object in a web page.

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