If you have ever wanted to take your PowerPoint presentation, and without converting each slide to HTML, easily put it up online so that you could send it off to millions (or tens) of people right from your email, then you need Slide Share. And, like YouTube, it’s free.

There are many similarities to YouTube. One significant one is that uploading your PowerPoint presentation is to a whole community of people within SlideShare and on the Internet. You can add a better title, further description and tags. You can choose a category (nearly identical to YouTube’s categories). The ease of uploading couldn’t be any simpler. Like YouTube, you need to wait a bit after your upload while the file is processed. The bigger the file, the longer the wait. You can upload a PowerPoint of up to 100Mb in size, per presentation.

Here is an example of a portion of my presentation The Invisible Website, and how to setup a Word Press account.

PowerPoint 2007 users need to save presentations in 97-2003 compatibility. I had a fade-in effect on my graphic in slide 2, in the presentation above, and it did not appear in the online version. Still, this is an easy way for PowerPoint to have a life online.

Cheers,
Richard D. Lee