I've done plenty of presentations to various sizes of audience but the same problem always comes up, apart from the fact that the projector doesn't work about half the time. The other problem is that once you have finished, that's it, end of all that work. Sure, you can hand out slides but if you are using your presentation tool correctly, most of the content is missing from the slides, its in what you say and how you say it.

Enter Slideshare, a free service for rescuing all that hard work and making it available to others, those who were at the conference but have forgotten just what you said, or fell asleep during it, and especialyl those who didn't get to the event.I use a tool called Jing to create online presentations straight from the desk top. Here's the one on getting started with Slideshare.

The one thing you do need, in addition to your presentation software is a way to record the audio. For that I use another freebie called Audacity and it works well, but the best way would be to record the actual presentation, import the file into Audacity to edit the flubs and heckling and then use that as the voice track for the Slideshow.

Is this kind of thing useful? If so, who would you share your presentations with and what tools do you use?

If not, why not?

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