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Zoundry Raven - Another Good Alternative to Windows Live Writer - 0 views

  • Zoundry Raven – Another Good Alternative to Windows Live Writer
  • blogging client that exists on your computer and acts as a normal program.
  • located on your computer’s hard drive, you can write posts even when offline
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  • possible to update multiple blogs through a common interface.
  • Before you can start writing blog posts with Raven you need to set it up for use with your blog.
  • Tools
  • download all of the image and post data from the blog.
  • The account manager lets you browse all tags, images, links and posts that make up your blog.
  • able to enter the title of the post and also enter in any tags that you want to use.
  • t is converted automatically to XHTML format
  • As with the text, all media and tags will be converted into a format compatible with the blog platform you use.
  • Preview tab actually lets you take a look at how the post will look when it is posted to the blog.
  • To enable this functionality, however, you must designate a template.
  • blog wizard.
  • Blog Template Manager.
  • enter the URL of the blog you want to make a template for
  • Media Storage
  • Raven supports the ability to drag-and-drop files into your posts, including not only images but also non-image files, such as PDF files.
  • hese files can then be accessed through links in your blog post.
  • Most blogs have some form of media storage by default, but you may want to use an alternative in some cases.
  • set up your media storage
  • Add Storage button
  • select the type of storage
  • Raven supports custom FTP storage, Flickr, Image Shack, LiveJournal Scrapbook, Picasa Web Album and Ripway FTP.
  • open source,
  • The Media Storage Wizard is a feature that Raven has but Windows Live Writer does not and, as said, is particularly useful when you want to share files both on your blog and through a sharing or social media website.
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Zoundry Raven vs Live Writer: Fight! « Scott's Windows Live Ramblings - 0 views

  • in Live Writer, if you omit the http:// from your blog address, it will add that for you, ZR doesn’t. ZR also detects this blog incorrectly as being “Wordpress (ver 2.1 or ealier [sic])” whereas this blog is actually Wordpress 2.9.2, so almost there, but not quite.
  • Live Writer also downloads the blog’s theme so that you can edit your post as it would appear in your blog (ZR offers this, but in a slightly different way, see later).
  • there is a difference in how much is offered to each blog. Live Writer pips this due to the extra XHTML, Right To Left support, plug-in support, turning on script and embedding support
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  • Live Writer, it downloads the blog’s theme automatically and offers this as default, so straight away as soon as you start writing your blog post, you’re already looking at the style your blog has:
  • ive Writer’s theme detection has, since the very beginning, been very good at grabbing the theme and formatting it [almost] perfectly within the editor window.
  • where things start to fall down for ZR, when it started to get my theme it ultimately failed with an error:
  • the big difference comes in and swings this more towards Live Writer. As noted above with the themes, Live Writer lets you actually write your blog post as if you were writing in your actual blog, this means you can get the layout just how you want it.
  • ZR does offer WYSIWYG editing, it’s not quite up to that same standard of “cool.”
  • One thing that ZR does have for post editing that has been requested for Live Writer is tabbed support.
  • both editors let you insert images into your blog post and arrange the post where you want them to go, you can create thumbnails of the images.
  • However, Live Writer does come into its own when it comes to editing the image. ZR offers your basic properties of an image, adding alt tags, etc:
  • although at least ZR will let you [in a roundabout way] edit the name of a pasted image, rather than just having Imagex.png. You also can’t insert a web image easily in ZR, although for Wave 3 on Windows 7, neither can Live Writer, not without a plug-in.
  • Live Writer on the other hand has a multitude of different things you can do with the image:
  • crop the image, rotate, tilt, add effects, etc.
  • plug-in architecture in Live Writer for 3rd party developers to write enhancements for it, adding further functionality so that you can do a whole multitude of things. This just simply doesn’t exist in ZR.
  • With ZR, even having done added a blog template, it still doesn’t actually let you write your blog post using that theme, it only lets you preview it using that theme:
  • Another nice feature that ZR has over Live Writer (although quite why this isn’t in Live Writer is beyond me) is search and replace!
  • , there is already one feature that rocks for Live Writer, and that is the split post feature.
  • insert a split into your post, it means anything above it will appear on your front page, and everything else will appear once you’ve gone to the full article.
  • providers are now supporting it (wordpress, Community Server, blogger, to name a few).
  • Save as draft
  • acking in ZR,
  • Through its plug-in architecture, developers have been able to add extra functionality to Live Writer, like Flickr support, ImageShack (of sorts), uploading non image files, and various other services.
  • ZR, however, does this out the box, this is quite cool, especially if you want to keep all your images (blog or otherwise) in one central place, rather than split across different services.
  • Live Writer offers video support for YouTube, both the browsing, and uploading, of videos, right from within Live Writer
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Pulsed: Blogger vs. Wordpress.com Comparison Chart - 2010 - 0 views

  • Wordpress.com
  • Themes and customization
  • No template editing.
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  • Blogger has introduced a collection of easy-to-customize templates (more info).
  • can include third party tracker scripts— or any type of script
  • Import from Blogger, Yahoo! 360, Type·Pad, MovabIe·Type, Posterous, Vox.com, Live·JournaI or another WordPress blog.
  • Image storage
  • 1 Gigabyte. There is no interface to browse through the images unless you sign up for Picasa Web Albums.
  • 3 Gigabytes.
  • can also upload .ppt, .doc, .odt and .pdf files
  • Galleries
  • icasa Web Albums.
  • Simply add the tag [gallery] to any post or page (more info).
  • Create posts or 'pages'. Static pages are listed in separate menus.
  • Blogger allows up to 10 static pages to be created
  • Static pages
  • Categories
  • 'Labels'.
  • 'Categories'.
  • Expandable post summaries (more info).
  • Optional excerpts
  • Submit your posts by email. Images can be attached
  • Submit your posts by email.
  • Free domain name mapping
  • can restrict access to invited Google account holders.
  • can restrict access to 35 invited Wordpress account holders
  • lternatively, individual posts can be password protected or Private.
  • Visual confirmation and moderation options, but no editing of comments.
  • Moderation, comment editing and Akismet spam protection.
  • Wordpress.com added follow-ups by email and comment threading options. Wordpress has more comment options than Blogger, but there have been problems with Akismet spam protection.
  • BlogSpot Widgets
  • add up to 10 stand-alone pages.
  • Software applications that do cool things.
  • Show off what you read with a blogroll of your favourite blogs.
  • Blog List
  • Slideshow
  • Video Bar
  • clips from YouTube and Google Video for your readers to watch without leaving the page.
  • Link List
  • Survey your visitors by adding a poll to your blog.
  • Wordpress.com Widgets
  • Category cloud
  • Recent Comments | Recent Posts
  • Tag Cloud
  • Top Clicks | Top Posts | Top Rated
  • Although the Wordpress.com collection of 90+ themes sounds like a lot, options for customization are limited unless you pay for an upgrade that allows stylesheet editing
  • If Wordpress.com allowed stylesheet editing without having to pay, and visitor stats comparable to the tracker scripts you can obtain for free, my choice would have been Wordpress.com for sure
  • One other comparison is the difference of how each handle leaving comments.
  • Wordpress allows a handy comment box with the post
  • annoying feature of Blogger is that it opens another window that does not match the theme of your blog.
  • If you create a new blogspot blog the initial selection of templates is incomplete.
  • To see the complete list you need to go to the template section of the dashboard and click on "Pick New Template".
  • Blogger uses the term "stretch" for variable width templates.
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SlideShare : FAQ: Embedding & Sharing - 0 views

  • On the right of the document player you will see a text box called Embed, with funny looking code in it
  • I embedded the slideshow in my blog and while it works fine, but it is flowing out of the blog's column. How can I reduce it's width?
  • Do I need permission to embed the slides on any blog?
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    SlideShare supports most popular blogging services such as Wordpress, Blogger, Movable Type etc. " If you find it does not support a particular service, please let us know".
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IntenseDebate - FAQ - 0 views

  • IntenseDebate is the premier commenting system available on the Internet for blogs and websites
  • comments enhances and encourages conversation on your blog or website.
  • can give your blog readers the opportunity to better engage your blog's content and each other.
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  • reputation system and comment voting, you're able to quickly find the worthwhile comments and commenters, while cutting through all of the other nonsense.
  • facilitates conversation on your site with enhanced comment functionality and enriches your site's community
  • Threaded Comments
  • Tracking and Notifications
  • Profiles
  • Comment Voting
  • readers will be able to follow the conversation within the comments better with comment threading.
  • Not only will your readers be more likely to comment, but they'll be more likely to return to leave multiple comments as the debate gets going.
  • Readers can subscribe to comments through our support of various RSS readers
  • automated install process for WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, and Tumblr
  • e offer a generic snippet of JavaScript for custom installs that is available in our install process.
  • universal profile that can be used across all blogs and websites that use IntenseDebate comments
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Support - WordPress.com Space & Bandwith Limits - 0 views

  • Free WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images.
  • Free blogs can upload images (jpg, jpeg, png, gif), documents (pdf, doc, odt) and presentations (ppt).
  • s there a limit on transfers, bandwidth, downloads? No.
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  • limit on file size? Nope. We support 1+ GB files.
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    3GB space for storing No limits for transfers, bandwidth & downloads
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Publisha - Publishers - 0 views

  • your multi-platform online magazine business from one simple place.
  • your own website (including mobile web)
  • evolutionary dedicated magazine tab within your Facebook fan page
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  • with all your polls
  • and other interactive content.
  • Multiple publishing platforms, with one simple website! Just upload your text, images, video and audio to create your magazine across Facebook, iPhone, iPad and your own unique website.
  • Inbuilt analytics tool tracks your statistics
  • Free submission to search engines, directories and social media sites
  • Sharing and linking features with major social networking, blogging and bookmarking sites
  • All you have to do is gather your content (text, images, video and audio) for all platforms in your Publisha database, then decide which articles and content you want to publish on each available platforms directly from there
  • Whereas a fan page is like a sequential blog
  • with Publisha you can upload all your past and current articles and other content, organised into categories, as well as feature reader polls and comments.
  • Keywords in this content will also improve your site visibility in search engines.
  • If you have created a very large following and your bandwidth and storage requirements pass 50Gb, we will take a small fee,
  • You keep 100% of the advertising revenue when you source and create your own ad campaigns. All we ask for is 20% of your advertising space for cross promotion and relevant advertising.
  • Publisha is developing an ad serving platform which places relevant advertising in all magazines using Publisha according to different parameters like age, gender, interests etc
  • will use the system to fill our 20% of advertising space in all magazines for the following purposes:
  • cross-promote your magazine in relevant publications
  • lace relevant advertising in the magazines as a revenue stream
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louisgray.com: Feedly Brings New Social Experience to Start Page, Leveraging RSS - 0 views

  • using your Google Reader subscriptions at its core, but layering on intelligence that learns from you, including your reading patterns, to personalize your information waterfall.
  • The goal? To bring a new, graphical, view of feeds, via Google Reader, and add multiple social layers on top of what's already recognized as the world's most-popular online RSS engine.
  • From the article, you can:
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  • Save it for later reading.
  • Annotate it
  • Recommend it to friends
  • Send a note about the article using your Twitter acount.
  • Preview it, giving a glimpse of how it looks from the source site.
  • Due to Feedly's tight integration with Google Reader, the items in the What's New page are segmented by topic,
  • gathered from your folders in Google Reader.
  • The Wall can act as your social springboard to both shared items in Google Reader and Twitter updates.
  • Feedly has developed an extensive tie-in with Google Search and Google Reader on day one.
  • Searches for more frequent terms, like Apple and Yahoo!, had their expected 1000+ results,
  • in reverse chronological order.
  • Similar to Google Reader shared notes, you can make notes on any item within Feedly and share it on "The Wall".
  • But unlike Google Reader, you can highlight the portion you're commenting on, and make notes,
  • select the desired text, and an option comes up to either "search related articles" or "highlight".
  • selected text is in fact highlighted, and you can add a comment.
  • Tweeting an article is similarly easy
  • click "tweet"
  • opens up with the headline, an automatically generated TinyURL, and a note on how many characters I have before running out of Twitter's 140 character limit.
  • automatically shows contacts you have in your GMail address book
  • Feedly is 100% synchronized with Google Reader.
  • move a blog from one folder to another in Google Reader? You can do that through Feedly.
  • Feedly essentially brings you all the aspects of Google Reader we've grown accustomed to, but displays them in a new, friendly, visual way, while extending the feed universe out to Twitter and e-mail, and adding social elements.
  • should you get bogged down with too many updates, feeds are flagged warm or cool based on your reading behavior and how often you mark them as favorites.
  • If you're the type of RSS power user who wants to read hundreds of items through aggressive keyboard navigation, then Google Reader still can't be beat,
  • but if you want to pick the very best from the many feeds you have, share items with friends and find new sources for news, Feedly is a compelling option.
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FotoTagger - Easily Tag / Annotate photos - 0 views

  • FotoTagger is a free utility that lets you tag photos with small descriptive notes on any part of an image
  • does not ‘spoil’ the image because the notes can be easily removed and also hidden with a click of a button.
  • photos also can be shared across the web along with the comments or annotations.
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  • with FotoTagger we can pinpoint any element on the photo and place a comment on it.
  • Photos (JPEGs) can be given a caption that’s like a label for the whole photo or a tag which can be pointed towards any element in the photo (also called a callout).
  • An image can be given only one caption but it can have multiple tags
  • Fonts and colors can be customized for tags and captions
  • They can be shown as rectangles or as balloons.
  • Tags and captions do not significantly add to the size of the image as they are stored within the image file in text format.
  • also can be revealed and hidden with a single click within FotoTagger (thus, displaying the image with and without tags).
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      Viewing enabled only if within a particular program?
  • also lets us publish annotated pictures to our blogs (Blogger and LiveJournal). If the image size is too large for blogs, an alert pops up requesting permission to resize the image.
  • Comment tab is for entering a more descriptive note on the particular image or the whole album.
  • Single images or a bunch with all its annotations can be exported (and imported back) to and from Flickr
  • While exporting, you can also perform a resize operation
  • technically inclined can use the image information tabs in the bottom panel to view specific data like EXIF, IPTC, image properties, histogram and of course the tags for the image
  • Exporting to HTML as whole folders or as individual files is also a two step process.
  • get are HTML pages that include the annotated image with tags which can be hidden with a click of a button. These are viewable in any browser and do not require FotoTagger for displaying the tags.
  • Creating animated slideshows and presentations
  • fourth way is to send annotated images by email. Send it with tags merged into the image automatically through FotoTagger which launches your default email application.
  • But cosmetics aside, FotoTagger does the basic job of captioning and tagging quite well.
  • plug-in which allows us to capture an image straight from either IE or Firefox into FotoTagger is not updated for the latest version of the Firefox browser.
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    I don't know if it counts as 'real' tagging, and it doesn't say if other programs or services read that data. Interesting I suppose, if you like annotating things.
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FotoTagger Product Tour: Publish to Blogger and LiveJournal - 0 views

  • Publish to Blog
  • Let your blog readers view both annotated and original picture.
  • Offer your visitors to download annotated pictures.
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  • Allow people to view your annotations without having to install FotoTagger
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    Doesn't exactly say how it does it, script, html or ..?
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Google Translate - Bartab vs TooManyTabs firefox addon - 0 views

  • memory savings in a different way
  • When restoring tabs from a previous session is set to put them on my bar tab
  • don't visit a tab for a while set to put it on my bar tap after x hour / minute / second Time can be set
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  • Bartab the package more convenient
  • automated
  • too many tab I feel more like the package management page
  • save it to your bookmarks and then release the memory
  • manually paging up or out with the less convenient than BarTab is not intuitive solution
  • more suitable when the Read it later in the feature to be used in page history,
  • classification management, and synchronization have a considerable advantage
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    I can highlight through this page, although I had to copy the information from the other page.hope that isn't any infringement of sorts. http://lafi.twbbs.org/blog/2010/03/firefox-bartab-v-s-toomanytab/
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Google Translate of bartab vs toomanytabs page - 0 views

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    http://lafi.twbbs.org/blog/2010/03/firefox-bartab-v-s-toomanytab/ I can't highlight a page if I have the google translate frame on top.
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SlideShare : Reduce width of embedded slides - 0 views

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    Change it from the code.  eg width="425" change it to something like width="300"
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tag2find -FAQ - 0 views

  • We plan to have always a free version for homer users.
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      Oh. Going to get a paid version soon. Usually bad news. Limited capabilities.
  • The NTFS Change Journal is a mechanism provided by Microsoft's NTFS which records all activity on an NTFS volume
  • T2F relies on this log to update its database.
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      Writing to a database not the metadata within file. =(
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  • The NTFS Change Journal does not effect everyday's use, regarding performance
  • only known small performance implication known to the developers is, if you are deleting huge amounts of small files at once
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    seems like there will be a paid version. Don't know what features free users will have. Last blog post was nov 2009 though. 
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Publisha - Take a tour - 0 views

  • Publisha creates a website for you
  • Publish your articles and keep archives within Facebook, as a tab from your fan page
  • or you can use your own domain name free of charge
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  • Publisha creates your RSS feed so your readers never miss an article.
  • Using our network of sites, our publications can advertise each other to interested readers. It grows your readership automatically.
  • Soon we’ll automatically publish to your Twitter account to tell the world when you have new articles available.
  • resent your content to search engines in the most useful way to make sure your digital publication is easily found.
  • mport existing articles with RSS Already online? Just enter your blog or website RSS feed and Publisha will import your latest articles for you.
  • save you time and hassle by keeping all your multi-platform content in one place.
  • Choose where to publish each article: it’s as easy as flipping a switch.
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Blogger Buzz: Blogger Template Designer Now Available To Everyone - 0 views

  • Blogger Template Designer
  • Blogger Template Designer lets you change all the colors in your blog at once, by changing the Main color theme.
  • Designs are completely defined in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), meaning that any design can be applied to any blog layout, making templates more flexible and unique.
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  • paired up with iStockphoto to offer you hundreds of gorgeous background images at no cost
  • available to everyone.
  • Pixel-perfect layout manipulation via smooth resizing.
  • real-time preview sits below the design control panel.
  • Under the advanced tab, you can override a design's CSS and enter your own CSS in the editor and see your blog's preview updated in real time.
  • Cross-browser support
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Feedly - A New Firefox Start Page Addon You Can't Afford To Miss - 0 views

  • Feedly – A New Firefox Start Page Addon You Can’t Afford To Miss
  • can load the Feedly start page by clicking on the Feedly icon on the toolbar.
  • asks you if you want to synchronize with your Google Reader, Twitter, FriendFeed and other web 2.0 accounts
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  • If you ask Feedly to connect with Google Reader or Bloglines, it will then load a copy of your OPML file that contains a list of RSS feeds you read from there – you need not essentially subscribe to every one of them manually on Feedly.
  • cover page lists new and unread items from your subscribed blogs
  • page looks like a magazine cover. Fancy stuff to love.
  • another tab called What’s New that lists items based on your reading patterns. Your Google Reader contacts and their recommendations are available from here too, and they rank higher on this page.
  • preview button you can click and the web page of that item opens in a page in popup,
  • To mark an item for reading later, click ‘Save for Later’. To share an item, click ‘Recommend’. You can also click on the ‘Annotate’ link to quote an item and share it on Google Reader, NewsGator online, etc.
  • search bar on top that lets you search and find articles from sites that you’ve favourited.
  • cool view of what’s new on your reading list. Articles appear and vanish one by one and you can click on the title to read/save it for later.
  • screensaver link on the top right
  • There’s a Feedly content API as well. What that means is that developers can easily build on top of the tool and make plenty of tools
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FotoTagger Product Tour: Merge with Tags - 0 views

  • Let people who do not have FotoTagger see your annotations anyway
  • Publish images merged with tags to your Web site or blog if it does not support FotoTagger.
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      Not sure what this means though.
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SlideShare : FAQ: Getting Started - 0 views

  • PowerPoint, OpenOffice and Keynote presentations, and your Word, Open Office documents
  • share them on your blog or website, or send a URL to friends by email
  • transcripts of your files will be indexed by Internet search engines and enhance the search engine ranking of your presentations & documents
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      Feature ***** I like that it gets transcribed for you. Makes it easy for readers/viewers as well. 
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  • search on the site, or find them through tags
  • find documents related to the current one through the list next to every document / presentation
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    Document types. Sharing options ***** Interesting Feature: transcribed files. search site, *Tags  Find related.
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About Slideshare, overview of features - 0 views

  • SlideShare is a business media site for sharing presentations, documents and pdfs.
  • a vibrant professional community that regularly comments, favorites and downloads content
  • LinkedIn, Facebook and twitter.
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  • Some of the things you can do on SlideShare
  • Embed slideshows into your own blog or website.
  • Share slideshows publicly or privately.
  • Synch audio to your slides
  • Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests.
  • Download the original file
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