SlideFinder is wishing everyone a Happy Valentine's Day.

SlideFinder contains many thousands of presentations about Valentine and Valentine's Day if you are in need of inspiration.

Here's one that I found about Valentine's Day. It's from Taiwan so some of it is in Chinese but most information is also in english. I must say my Chinese is somewhat rusty so I can't really tell what they are speaking about on those slides.

The Story of Valentine's Day.ppt

We are currently looking for presentations in Taiwan. All I can say is: it is taking for ever...

We actually ran into a similar problems while going through Australia. I guess this is an open question but I simply cannot understand the reason for it. Taiwan is a high-tech society and should have the infrastructure in place. Given that these are universities we are scanning, one would assume they had appropriate bandwidth. If we look at Japan, that went lightning fast in comparisson.

I do have to give Taiwan a big star for making such large amounts of presentations available to the community. We have berly began and are already reaching 10.000 presentations, which compared to others is quite strong.

India was a bit of a dissapointment I must say, given that they are friends of presentations. Just take our friend Geetesh and his site Indezine.com which supplies great information about PowerPoint and presentations in general. We have scanned roughly 50 universities in India and found about 80 presentations. I must admit that, given the size of India and the number of universities we very well might have found the 50 smallest universities, but still. I simply don't know, we will surely increase our search in India and hopefully that will yield a better result.

In any case we are closing in on 250.000 university presentations. Our plans are to "complete" our first run of Europe and then move down to south-east Asia. Once that is done we move back to the middle east, we are seeing a large increase of visitors from that area which is really fun. Once that is done we plan to move over to South America, which will complete our first world tour.

The new Microsoft Office 2010 Beta is now available for download.Office Professional 2010 combines all you need to create, edit and share documents from virtually anywhere. You get top-of-the-line tools to run your business and any project efficiently.

Office Professional 2010 combines all you need to create, edit and share documents from virtually anywhere. You get top-of-the-line tools to run your business and any project efficiently.

The downloads are available here: http://us20.office2010beta.microsoft.com/default.aspx?culture=en-US

We are happy to anounce that the first round of indexing in Italy has been completed and that we now have almost 27000 presentations coming from 48 different Italian universities. The total amount of presentations coming from Italy is now roughly 28000.

Italian universities can be found here and the Italian presentations can be found here.

Here's a short presentation on SlideShare about us.

We are glad to announce that we have released the first beta version of our new university search feature. We are still in the process of indexing large amounts of presentations from around the university world, why many of the universities may currently show a small number of presentations.

The idea here is that presentations posted on university websites will often contain high quality content. This is not to be confused with good quality presentations, but none the less, its actual content should be reliable and interesting. We are today indexing presentations from well over 500 universities world-wide in eleven countries. This will further increase during the spring of 2010 to include about 40 countries and 4000 universities.

There are currently two ways of using this new feature; you can either browse the actual university by country and university, or you could do a simple search and add site:harvard.edu for example to find presentations coming from Harvard University.

If anyone feels like promoting their country or their university then please let us know.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 comes with new rich media tools. Follow this quick tutorial and see how to easily integrate images and video in your PowerPoint presentation. Also, learn how to share PowerPoint presentations with remote abilities.

We have done a minor update to the first page. SlideFinder has indexed presentations in 23 languages so far and these can now be reached from the first page. The presentations are thus grouped by languages and sorted by date of index.

While Twitting this morning I found a cool eBook from Olivia Mitchell, and best of all, it's free. The book talks about how to present with Twitter, making it an integrated part of your presentation.

Here's an excerp from here eBook:

And so started the shift of power from speaker to audience. Now, just about every week a new story of a presenter getting roasted on Twitter or other backchannel surfaces. The fact that this might happen to you could be scary. Presenting at conferences is hard enough without the added complication of Twitter.

In this eBook, I'll show you how you can survive presenting with Twitter. Audience revolts on Twitter and other backchannels get the attention in the Twittersphere and blogosphere, but if you upgrade your presentations to meet the deamnd of the Twitter era, it won't happen to you.

Now, go download this free eBook and have a great weekend.

Please visit her page where she writes about the eBook: http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/twitter/present-twitter-backchannel-ebook/

The eBook can downloaded from: http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/How-to-present-with-Twitter1.pdf

Just came across a pretty cool page at Microsoft Office online. It contains well over twenty FREE courses regarding PowerPoint 2007.

Just follow this link http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA102184981033.aspx and sit back for hours of FREE powerPoint training.

Here is another usefull link http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/CH100740871033.aspx?IO_CL=5266 with rouglhy 70 PowerPoint 2007 demos.