You can now upload presentations directly through the web interface. Choose whether to share them freely or to restrict downloads for example.

More features to come around uploaded content so stay tuned.

Upload you presentations today!

Start uploading your presentations today! Slide Executive xPoint now enables you to upload all your presentations to SlideFinder® with just a few clicks. All you need is a PC with PowerPoint® 2007 or 2010 installed*.

What is xPoint? Slide Executive xPoint introduces a new way of working with Microsoft® PowerPoint®. It fully integrates with PowerPoint® and makes your media content easily available from within PowerPoint®.

Media content such as your presentations, images and movie files are catalogued by Slide Executive® and then made searchable, as well as easily accessible from within PowerPoint®.

*You can read the full prerequisits here and download the client here.

Getting started - Step 1

Start by browsing to the Slide Executive xPoint tab located at the top of PowerPoint®. Locate the SlideFinder® section of the ribbon and click the upload button to begin.
Proceed to step 2.

Note: You may be propted to log in with your SlideFinder® account in order to continue with the upload.

Step 2 - Select upload

Here you select the type of upload you want to do. Each of the steps presented to you will have it's own wizard guiding you through the process of uploading your presentations to SlideFinder®.

Follow the wizard step by step and see your presentations getting uploaded to SlideFinder®.

To see your uploaded presentations go to your profile on slidefinder.

The unfortunate downtime yesterday was caused by a power failure. According to IDG (Swedish article) the main switch failed at 200 Amps once the diesel gernerators kicked in. This is yet another failure by Global Crossing, the owners of the environment. Back in August 2009 we had a problem with the cooling environment that lasted for 18 hours. It is, unfortunate, that Global Crossing are unable to provide the service that we are paying for.

The SlideFinder team are sorry about the downtime and we are doing what we can to stop it from happening again.

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.

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.

Our first November update is now out and contains a minor list of of improvments.

By order of appearance:

• Web page compression
  • All pages are now compressed to improve the time it takes to transfer a page to the user. Users in Europe and the US may not see a difference but hopefully users over in Asia and down-under will see an improved page generation.
• Embed functionality
  • Till now you have only been able to link to presentations that you have found on SlideFinder. As of today you can also embed a presentation within your own website or blog. See below for an example.
• Faster searches
  • We have made some improvments to the search engine that should show up to 13 seconds improvments in special cases.
• Diminished space between slides and increased right column

Conducted by a leading PowerPoint expert : Ellen Finklestein Book your calendars: 18th Nov 11 am Pacific Time

Learn to engage & involve your audience. They don't want to be passive!

There's a new way to present and it doesn't involve standing in front of an audience and talking. People have gone from sitting passively in front of a TV or movie screen to interacting on a computer or mobile device. Are you ready for the change?

Interactive presentation skills are important for your career! Learn how to:

• Involve your audience from the first few minutes
• Engage your audience throughout your presentation
• Start a conversation—and carry it through
• Use audience feedback to guide your content
• Use PowerPoint to structure an interactive presentation

Includes a Question & Answer period—because I believe in interactivity!

Register yourself : http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/events/training_webinar_interactive_presentations.html

About Ellen Finklestein
Ellen Finkelstein has been using AutoCAD since 1986 and PowerPoint since 1996. She is a recognized expert, speaker, and best-selling author on AutoCAD, PowerPoint, and presenting effectively. Her articles have appeared in numerous magazines, newsletters, and blogs. She is Associate Editor of Inside PowerPoint, published by Eli Journals.

The webinar is sponsored by Raptivity Presenter and YawnBuster.
Raptivity Presenter helps you create meaningful and expressive interactions for your presentations quickly and easily. YawnBuster helps you to Easily add high-impact group activities to your PowerPoint slides

Visit Presentation.harbingergoup.com for more details.

We are happy to announce that Hindi has been added as an interface language to the search engine. We would like to express our thanks to Ajit Sheth and his wife Jyoti Sheth.

An upgrade to the Polish interface has been made where some parts of the translation were not optimal.

We will be coming out with some new exiting features, planned for November so please keep your eyes opened.

SlideFinder team

We would like to thank Radoslaw Koscik for providing Polish as an interface language to SlideFinder. SlideFinder is now available in eight different languages.

Along side the increased South Korean traffic we are also seeing an increase in traffic from Japan, and Japanese presentation indexing will therefore also be a priority.