SlideShare comes to PowerPoint, Keynote

SlideShare, the online community for presentations, noticed that in order to upload your PowerPoint presentations to the site, you had to take several steps. Save, compress, log in, upload etc etc… something that takes that many steps is something I’m not likely to do if I’m in the middle of a hectic day.

To combat that, SlideShare has created a Ribbon for PowerPoint 2007 to make uploading your presentation a one-click “Publish” feature.

Not only can you upload your presentations quickly and easily, you can also download other’s presentations and edit them, directly in PowerPoint. I don’t know about you guys, but I get a lot of inspiration from other slides.

But that’s not all. You see, this nifty little feature only works for Office 2007’s PowerPoint. So what about Keynote? This was one of SlideShare’s most requested features, ever. We clamored for it, they built it. There’s one extra step for Keynote users to upload their presentations, and that’s to compress as .zip, something that you likely do anyways.

Much like PowerPoint 2007, you can also download slides into Keynote and edit them, or simply browse to get inspiration.

I’m a huge fan of anything that makes me more efficient, more productive and includes little tweaks like this one. It’s actually rather brilliant.