Slideshare – the place for sharing presentations

 

SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations. With 60 million monthly visitors and 130 million pageviews, it is amongst the most visited 200 websites in the world. Besides presentations, SlideShare also supports documents, PDFs, videos and webinars.

It’s kind of like PowerPoint but everyone on the web can view it.

What can you do on SlideShare?

• Upload presentations publicly or privately
• Download presentations on any topic and reuse or remix
• Embed on blogs, websites, company intranets
• Share on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
• Zipcast: free, no download, 1 click web meetings
• Leadshare: generate business leads with your presentations, documents, pdfs, videos
• Slidecast: sync mp3 audio with slides to create a webinar
• Embed YouTube videos inside SlideShare presentations
• Use SlideShare PRO for premium features like branded channels, analytics, ad free pages etc.

If you sign up for the Pro version you get analytics!

• Source and location of viewers
• Detailed engagement insight
• Sharing insight across other social networks
• Profile of people downloading your content
• Actual tweets which mention your content

Check out this video on “Why I love SlideShare”

Excited to start using this site, has anybody used it? Is it helping with business?

Human Business Works – build a vision, a plan for your business & get support

Human Business Works is a business design company, providing publishing and media products dedicated to helping professionals understand how to do business; relationship-minded, interested in delivering great value for your clients and doing this in a much more interesting way.

Chris Brogan and his team really come up with some great blogs, courses, coaching, speaking engagements, and books. Chris has appeared in several magazine and news articles from Forbes, The Boston Globe, Success, USA Today, and has appeared on TV shows like The Dr Phil Show.

Sign up for the email newsletter at least and see what they have to say! here

Course list on Human Business Works is as follows (pricing $100 – $600):

• Mastering the Digital Channel
• Blog Topics Master Class
• Work Like You’re On Vacation
• Brave New Year
• Write Your Book Already

Thinking about signing up for the blog topics master class. You get weekly updates with 10 or more blog topics, writing advices, and more for 45 weeks. Only $97! 🙂

Evernote – Online Notebook

I just downloaded Evernote today. Evernote makes it easy to remember things  from your everyday life using your computer, phone, tablet and the web. Put everything in one place – your notes, images, documents, web clips and audio notes. Find what you’re looking for using our powerful search. Sync makes your notes accessible across your devices.

Evernote also has another cool app called  Skitch

 You can add arrows and circles to really get your point across with fewer words so that your ideas become reality faster. Use existing photos OR capture a screen shoot and then add the annotations. See my example below I made when I was writing this post. Good for presentations or even twitter photos.

Evernote and Skitch are clearly teasers for their paid aps but non the less, cool free tools! Anyone tried these out??

Explore B2B – Intelligent Networking

exploreB2B was founded in March 2010 by Jonathan and Susanna Gebauer. exploreB2B’s mission is change and drastically improve Business to Business communications worldwide. Basic functions of exploreB2B include self-publication, reading, and sharing articles. With the new premium functions, users can analyze statistics on who has read their articles, where referrals originate, and which topics or industries the readers have expressed interest in their areas of discussion. Premium functions allow self-publishing professionals insight into the kind of content that speaks to their target group. This is how it works:

1. Write Articles Articles increase your visibility on exploreB2B. Present your professional knowledge and your products or simply ask questions

2. Enter your Personal Profile Your personal profile is your business card on exploreB2B.

3. Read and comment on Articles Take part in discussions, ask questions and help others.

4. Get connected You found interesting content? Get in touch with the author.

It’s pretty cool in the sense you can search for articles related to company, person, topics, or industries.

Viral Heat – Social Media Simplified

Viralheat is a platform to monitor share on your social media platforms. For as low as $49.99 monthly the plan allows businesses to manage 15 social accounts and monitor 2 search profiles across Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, video and the web. Monitor, manage, publish, analyze, and engage in one spot.

Also allows you to compare search profiles or relevant terms across the web and social media so you can track individual products and compare social buzz among your own products or compare your brand mentions to competitors.Viralheat offers a few ways to visualize this data in a graph or a pie chart. They also have a very informative blog here.

Gui.de – turns web into tv

Gui.de takes everything you love about the internet, smart devices and TV and blended it together. You can choose a pet, person, robot, or even a pink haired dog to read you your twitter feed, or your favourite blogs. It’s still in beta testing but it will be interesting to see where this goes, and how well it works. I love the idea of someone reading to me, and turning ny favourite blogs into a personal TV show, but I’m not sure about the robot voice. What do you think?