Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

SlideShare was the “quiet giant of content marketing” way back in 2011, even before being acquired by LinkedIn. Now? It’s one of the most influential social media platforms for businesses and big thinkers.

But while SlideShare has proven to be a great new medium for sharing content, many people are still asking how to get started with it.

In this article, I want to provide best practices for the simplest way to get started with SlideShare: turning a written piece of content into a SlideShare deck....

Becoming authoritative in an age of information overload requires more than simply creating additional content. It requires content that attracts relevant audiences and engages readers to take action. Creating content authority also requires strategy, process and the right tools.

One of those tools is SlideShare. As a platform for hosting authoritative content, marketers can use SlideShare to build influence amongst interested subscribers, visitors from social networks like LinkedIn and readers that pull themselves to SlideShare content through search engines.

There are many forms of content published on SlideShare. Four types that are particularly useful for differentiating your brand and creating authority include: evergreen, co-created, repurposed and curated content....