Sure, YouTube is great for watching movie trailers, listening to music, and watching videos. Slideshare, however, is a different kind of visual sharing database. It is a site that is tailored solely to slideshows (hence, the name), and it can be a powerful tool for sharing a combination of informational presentations, statistics, and still photos.

Both small and large businesses alike are tapping into this new social sharing platform. Users can create presentations with PDF files, Powerpoint and even Word documents and easily upload them to make a succinct and professional presentation. Presentation creators and viewers can easily upload them to other social sites, and they can significantly increase your site traffic including your referral traffic.

Slideshows range from informational statistics regarding financial plans, to more open-ended conversation-sparking topics such as best practices in web design. In fact, Slideshare includes the functionality to allow users to comment on other presentations, giving it the social aspect of YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms.

Quite frankly, the possibilities are endless with this tool. Don't believe us? Click here to see one of our favorite uses of Slideshare in this quirky, downright awesome, presentation created by Jordan McDonnell. Seriously, give it a click.

Inserting presentations into your website can help to give your site pages a dynamic element. To discover other ways to engage your site users and improve the site-user-experience for your business' target audience, contact an internet professional at Blue Archer, a Pittsburgh web design, development and internet marketing company.​