7 Ways Businesses Can Get More Social With SlideShare

Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel?s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy. She was recently elected to serve on the board of directors of WOMMA.

Online presentation website
SlideShare is an important business network that ranks in the top 300 websites, with
30 million monthly viewers, and
80 million pageviews. Users upload presentations, Word and PDF files, tag them, and share them on other social media sites, or embed them in their blogs and company websites.

But SlideShare isn?t just a one-way process: The social functions in the site are giving companies the potential to connect with customers and clients in new ways, generating new business and enhancing their online image.

Here’s how businesses achieve social success using SlideShare.

1. Tell Your Story

For organizations of all sizes, presentations can communicate a company?s ethos far beyond the more traditional LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook routes alone. Presentations make a company more three-dimensional and add personality.

In May 2011 NASA launched its
NASA Universe channel on SlideShare, which integrated presentations, documents and videos from NASA headquarters and field centers. In the announcement on the SlideShare blog, NASA social media manager

7 Ways Businesses Can Get More Social With SlideShare