Notes from Millie D

Slideshare has take a good product and made it better. For those people who are not aware of what Slideshare is all about here we go…Slideshare can take a PowerPoint presentation and turn it into a flash file that can be put onto a website or blog.

There was one feature that was missing, audio to accompany the slides. Notice I said WAS because Slideshare has now added the audio track. Now one can create an online version of a presentation that is not bullet based but taps into the creativity of presentation. It looks like you need to create an mp3 of the Slideshare and store it on a website (you can’t upload the mp3 file to them directly) to create what they’ve deemed “Slidecast”. According to Slideshare, once audio is processed, you can choose how audio should play with the
slides You can synch each slide to a particular point in the audio
file. Or you can leave the audio unsynchronzied. The third option is to
do a quick synch using the “divide audio equally” (suited to musical
slideshows).

This looks interesting and pretty easy. Something else that I missed on the first view was the fact that an RSS feed is created so you can now create “enhanced podcasts” or whatever you called it. Too Cool! Now let’s hope the filter issue is not a problem.

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