This is a fantastic new feature for Slideshare, the ability to add audio files and synchronize slides to the audio.
They’re calling it slidecasting.
Jonathan Boutelle from Slideshare contacted me and asked what I thought, I told him I loved it. Here’s a brief intro, if you want to find out straight from them, hit up the slidecasting faq page.
It begins with a small little box on the bottom right, tempting you.
That leads you to this little nugget of info, good only if you’re uploading a new file.
If you already have a presentation loaded to slideshare and you want to add audio to it, you go to the presentation and hit the tiny edit button on the far right.
And then you’re off! At the top of that page, hit the create slidecast button and add your audio file.
It uploads it and preps it for synching. More on that part of the process later.
Congrats, Slideshare, for another great new feature!
[...] Vodcasting, were enough, but now we have yet another term to throw into the mix: Slidecasting. As shared by Crafty, SlideShare now provides you with the ability to upload an audio file and sync your powerpoint [...]
It seems good in theory… but when one of the top slideshows is “How to have a threesome” or something to that effect… I don’t know that I would embed anything in my site that has links to that site.
I don’t know. I tried, but that site is way too slow. After 30 minutes of trying to upload slides and audio, I find the audio doesn’t load at all. It’s just terrible.