Tufte joins SlideShare board of advisors; No more bullet points
We are thrilled to announce that Edward Tufte the renowned author, academic, and speaker best known for his pioneering work on the display of quantitative information, has joined the SlideShare board...
View ArticleTaking SlideShare to the next stage
Press releases are boring. We wanted to use a format that is native to SlideShare to let you know about whats up with SlideShare. Enjoy. Dave, thanks for going along with this. I am so glad you agreed....
View ArticleMarketing department uploads, legal department serves takedown notice
This just happened. A big company approached us with a take down notice for a few slideshows. We responded and suspended the slideshows. The people who had uploaded protested. Turns out they were from...
View ArticleWhy did Google acquire Omnisio?
For those who live under a rock (read don’t read Techcrunch/Techmeme), Google just acquired Omnisio – a company that lets you synchronize YouTube videos with SlideShare slideshows. At first I was...
View Article“Thirst” wins SlideShare’s World’s Best Presentation Contest
We declared the results of the second World’s Best Presentation Contest. Jeff Brenman (who also won the contest last year with Shift happens), walked away with this year’s top prize with Thirst. Other...
View ArticleWhy the LinkedIn platform is important
Last week LinkedIn launched their platform with several apps including SlideShare. Several bloggers wrote about the business oriented nature of the apps, and that you cannot throw sheep ! But there are...
View ArticleWomen speaker Wednesdays on SlideShare
Ever so often the topic comes up of women speaker at conferences. All of us notice the small number of women (especially speakers) at tech conferences. I hear such discussions, but so far have been a...
View ArticleRunning a scrappy startup – what would you like to hear about?
Next Sunday, I am giving a talk at Entrepreneur Trek at Stanford on a topic close to my heart: how to run a scrappy startup. It is something I know a lot about, having run SlideShare on a small budget....
View ArticleSleeping through the launch of SlideShare mobile app
Last night we went out for St Patrick’s day and I completely forgot that our mobile app was being launched. I woke up this morning to check my feeds and realized that the app had been launched, was...
View ArticleWhy VCs don’t invest in women led startups – my perspective
I just noticed lots of tweets citing me as an example of VCs investing in women led startups, and felt that I had to speak up about the issue. First of all, some VCs do invest in women led startups and...
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