Walter Adamson

Presentation of the day! Slideshare as a social media tool

Ha! I made Presentation of the Day, on Slideshare today - never thought I would see that. It's my presentation from Social Media Tools Week - Slideshare as a social media tool.

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Love to hear your comments on the presentation.

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Social Media Tools Week: Slideshare as a social networking tool

Thanks to all of you who attended my webinar today (Social Media Tools Week) on using Slideshare as a social media tool.  I've been a big fan of Slideshare, as you would have gathered, although that was simply because of the amazing quality of material which people were prepared to post and share.

More recently I saw that it could be used to extend your network effectively and that's what the presentation was all about. I'm sure you'll agree that it's now very useful for this purpose, especially since you can filter your network leads by reviewing the quality of their prepared subject-matter material.

You can get a copy of the presentation from Slideshare.

I didn't have time to mention all of Slideshare's features, as I was concentrating on the networking angle. They have recently introduced their "Slideshare for Business" which allows readers to be targeted for calls to action, to drive leads to your business. See http://www.slideshare.net/business

That's a good reason for companies to set up both approved employee accounts and company accounts for loading up company material, and especially when used in conjunction with Linkedin. See Catherine Sherwood's excellent presentation on Linkedin which explains this on slide 15.

I'm sure many of you have tips and Slideshare tricks for networking, and for best practice in the use of Slideshare, which I don't know or didn't cover. 

Please add your comments below as I'd love to see those ideas.

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The Social Media Wave of Anders Lindgren

Anders Lindgren @AndersLindgren recently posted two beautifully crafted long essays on Slideshare on the social media wave. Parts 1 & 2 take us through the evolution, the human waves, and Part 3 launches in to Social Media, all 124 slides of it!

124 slides is a mouthful by anyone's standards, but by applying his own new rules of social media - speed up, get to the point, use relevance, scan - you can pick out some real gems. Or at least I thought so.

He first dismissed the misconception that the tools ARE social media - we know but others don't, we have to say over and over again "it's about people connecting" - connecting with family, friends, colleagues, customers.'

He makes the point that people have instantly recognised its value because we herd and socialize and share. Now we can flock instantly.

And by slide 50 he asks the big questions for business - would you like to connect with your customers and would you like them to be your fans?

As they say the rest is history - it's all worth a flick through - the next 100 slides, for certain as the whole presentation is a work of art and craft and content.

Most notably, amongst the power of the postive messages, is his warning "don't mess with it unless you know what you're doing".

Part 3 - Time To Get Social And Personal

View more Microsoft Word documents from Anders Lindgren.