catching up and creating extra work at the same time – thing 11 optional extras

just noticed there were some optional extras, so what the heck – I’m wet anyway, may as well go swimming….

I’ve not added stuff to slideshare, but I have shared presentations with others using google docs  – does this count? Clearly slideshare is more public and I don’t have to invite people to look at it, and I can build up a profile, and it’s not google, but essentially it does the same job….

I’ve also made screencasts in the past using Jing (though none are live) and camtasia (not free, but super fancy) – see for my dodgy presentation - but really need to update my skills and improve my use. Could be really good for virtual tours of the library….. (note to self)

start of a massive catch up – slideshare

I like slideshare – it’s a good thing, as far as a place where I can see the slides of presentations I can’t go to goes. 

It doesn’t have the chat (a point raised by plenty others)  – a fundamental problem. And given the sort of slides I like to look at when watching someone else present, and the sort of slides I make when giving a presentation it all means that I’m probably missing quite a lot.

 But at least I get something – which is better than nothing, and to be fair there’s only so many conferences and meetings my long suffering boss can afford to send me on. And when people put their slides up ahead of their presentation, and when there are people tweeting from the conference where the slides are being presented, it’s a lot better than nothing. (acutally contributed tuppence worth to the EAHIL conference in Lisbon twitter discussion as it was happening because I could see the slides as well as read the tweets)

I’ve added slideshare slides on this blog already - I like it!

What I also like increasingly, but haven’t played with to have made one myself, is prezi 

I enjoyed the great echochamber presentation by Woodsiegirl and thewikiman for the content and significantly for the presentation:

dull old straight powerpoint on slideshare: 1, super fancy prezi: 2 (if done well)

Escaping the echo-chamber on Prezi