Test Driving SlideShare
Cathy Moore has inspired me to give SlideShare.net a try, so I quickly created a PowerPoint 2007 slide show.
For a tutorial, I chose a simple subject: How to change a user’s password in SumTotalSystem’s TotalLMS 7.2, and I used PPT 2007 for the first time since it was recently installed on my computer.
PPT 2007 has some fun, “artsy” features that I enjoyed testing and using. However, it doesn’t currently play well with Articulate Presenter, version 5.2.131, but the Articulate team have a powerful upgrade in Beta that will make beautiful music with PPT 2007. So, until that’s released, I turned to SlideShare.net
Well, SlideShare.net also did not like PPT 2007′s *.pptx nor its *.ppsx file extensions. A simple save-to-PDF worked, and the result is below. The bummer is several lovely font effects don’t convert well, so they disappeared.
Immediate Feedback!
What amazed me is that 4 minutes after I uploaded my slideshow, I got a “thumbs up” vote from SlideShare.net user SRINI. How nice is that! Then, after 30 minutes, the presentation already had 17 Views. Wow.
(Direct hyperlink to the slide show.)
Use SlideShare.net Today!
Give it a try! Create a user account, then upload your work of art. When I uploaded my tutorial file, I ran into a few problems while using Firefox. When I switched over to Internet Explorer, the upload process went quickly and smoothly.
Life is fun when a person is “Always Learning”!
