Slideshare and the Life Hacks for Doctors Presentation

Slideshare is YouTube for slideshows.

Doesn't sound appealing? I didn't think so either. But last week, I presented on "Life Hacks for Doctors" to a group of physicians. I wanted to put the presentation online, so I figured I'd use the opportunity to test out Slideshare... and now I'm hooked. On slideshows? I know, It's almost embarassing, but hear me out.

The beauty of Slideshare is it allows you to share presentations without the hassle of having to share the file with each person individually. Instead of working with the original PowerPoint/Keynote file — which was 8 MB — Slideshare easily turns the presentation into an embeddable slideshow:


Life hacks are productivity strategies that solve everyday problems — especially problems related to information overload. Slideshare featured Life Hacks for Doctors on their home page. In a week, it was viewed over 1300 times. The service also features tagging and searching for presentations, and it allows you to create your own groups, for example, Improving Medical Practice and Health 2.0.

Slideshows occupy a singular category of knowledge. The results of a Slideshare search are qualitatively different from what you'd find from searching Google or YouTube. Here's the best way I can describe it: the presentations on Slideshare are concentrated, surfable bursts of thought.

I've posted some more examples of slideshows below, but I'd encourage you to have a look around Slideshare and explore on your own.

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