Thought Garage

Based on stats at Slideshare.net , it appears an average presentation in French has 38 slides in it. I thought, French people have a lot of things to say. But when I looked at the stats to find that next language in the top of the list as Chinese, I started wondering, is it really they have more to say? Luck has it, at work place, I have been working with colleagues from both China and France. With due respect to both, not sure whether this bump in slide number has anything to do with ‘more’ to say. Both presentations and documents produced by these teams are normally larger than average in size, but when it comes to content I don’t see similar trends. Often, I found it otherwise. I observed the same in presentations or documents done by colleagues from India too.

I wasn't sure why someone want to share their slides online with public.  I never had to, so far. Last week, I gave a training online and I couldn't send handouts to all the audience as they are almost from every corner of the world. So,  I want to share my presentation slides online with selective audience from my last week's training.  One of my friends mentioned Slideshare could do. So I signed up, only to decide after a couple of minutes that Slideshare is not for me.   If you want to share your presentation selectively, SlideShare is a no-go. If you want to just open your presentation to general public its not an issue. But if you want to selectively share your presentation with a few of your buddies privately, Slideshare is a no go. If you want to share a presentation with your friend, it requires that your friend is also a member of Slideshare. So if you want to share, you must ask your friend to signup with Slideshare and send you an email with his us...