The ‘Holiday Spirit’ Contest 2009 - Share The Spirit!
Ho Ho Ho! Holidays are upon us. We at SlideShare thought it would be sort of cool to let our hair down, and do something fun! So we conjured up - The Holiday Spirit Contest 2009! Celebrate anything and everything that revolves around these festive times and capture them onto presentations. What constitut

Participate in the Real Life Tools Sweepstakes in the Parent ToolBox Channel!!!
It’s likely you are aware of the Microsoft Parent ToolBox Channel currently running on SlideShare. What you might not be aware is the channel offering called ‘The Microsoft Office Real Life Tools Sweepstakes‘. For every comment on the blogposts, or any presentation or document added to the channel, you get one entry into the sweepstakes. The more you participate by commenting or uploading, the more chances you get to win a copy of Microsoft Office 2007! Check out details about the sweeptakes

SlideShare in 3D
Check out this awesome video. This is SlideShare in 3D! This comes from NUS (National University of Singapore) and they are an active user of slideshare.

The Do’s and Don’ts of Presentation Fonts
Ah yes, the font… Never has something so small created such grand disasters for so many. It may seem trivial, but when it comes to incorporating text into your slides font is everything. The size and style of the lettering you choose for your presentation can make your presentation take wing or make it crash and burn. There is a reason why we’re not all graphic designers. Choosing great fonts can be question of taste, but there are a lot of basics that anyone can – and should – learn before deciding to fill slides with loads of words that no one can read. Here are 5 font tips you definitely need to refer to before your next p

Introducing: Seven new account types on SlideShare
Ever wondered this? Who are you on SlideShare? Well till recently, we gave everyone the same kind of account (i.e. the default/normal account). So if you were a teacher, a university, a company or a lone user, you had to use the same account type. Not any more. We have released 7 new account types. We did some exhaustive research to understand our community. And the research indicated that these seven types of accounts should cover the main sub-sections of SlideShare users. Account types are free, off course. If you want to change our account type, just log into your SlideShare account, change your account types, fill out the options and you are