I love checking out presentations at Slideshare and I’m sure you love as well. Good presentations are inspiring and they are a great way to learn new things or to get some fresh ideas. That’s why I want to share with you 50 accounts that I’m following with interest on Slideshare – they maybe useful for you too.
Agencies:
Bright One – London
Fleishman-Hillard International Communications
Interact SpA – Italian digital communications agency
Logos PR – Miami
Soap Creative – Digital creative agency in Sydney and Los Angeles
The Hoffman Agency Asia Pacific
We Are Social – Conversation agency in London
Organizations:
Institute for PR Measurement Commission – Miami
Word of Mouth Marketing Association – Chicago
Sites:
Professionals:
Adam Vincenzini – Host of #CommsChat on Twitter.
Amber Naslund – Director of Community at Radian6
Ben Cotton – PR at Spook Media, Edelman UK. Owner and author of http://socialwebthing.com/
Ben Matthews – PR and Communications at 33 Digital / Bright One
Brian Solis – Owner and author of www.briansolis.com
Conversation Agent by Valeria Maltoni
Corinne Weisgerber – Asst. Professor of Communication at St. Edward’s University
Chris Brogan – President at New Marketing Labs, LLC. Owner and editor of http://www.chrisbrogan.com/
Danny Brown – Executive Director / Partner / Co-Founder at Bonsai Interactive Marketing. Founder and author at http://dannybrown.me/
David Armano – SVP, Digital at Edelman
Drew Benvie – Managing Director at 33 Digital, London
Eric Equalman – Owner and author of www.socialnomics.com
Jason Fallas – Owner and editor of www.socialmediaexplorer.com
Jeff Bullas – Digital and social media http://jeffbullas.com/
Jeff Esposito – Owner and author of jeffesposito.com
Kevin Dugan – Owner and author of prblog.typepad.com
Kyle Lacy – Owner and author of www.kylelacy.com
Matt Dickman – SVP & Partner, Digital Strategy at Fleishman-Hillard
Neville Hobson – Communicator, blogger, podcaster; Head of Social Media Europe at WCG, London
Olivier Blanchard - Principal at BrandBuilder Marketing
Patrick Gibbons – Communications Professional at RTI International
Richard MacManus – Founder and CEO of ReadWriteWeb
Robert Pickard – President & CEO, Asia-Pacific at Burson-Marsteller
Stephen Davies – Consultant at 3W PR, London
Stephen Waddington – Managing Director at Speed Communications, London
Steve Rubel – SVP/Director of Insights at Edelman Digital, New York
Stuart Bruce – Owner and author at http://stuartbruce.biz/. Co-founder and CEO of Wolfstar Consultancy, Leeds, the UK.
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Twitter: ewichka
// Jan 17, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Hi Petya and thanks for sharing :)
How did you choose these 50 accounts? And what is your opinion – why don’t they have more followers?
Twitter: pgeorgieva
// Jan 17, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Hi Eva, Thanks for your comment! :)
As I said, I follow the people behind these accounts, I check out what they do online and I’m sure here are selected pretty famous names. In addition, I have previewed their presence on Slideshare and have found something that can be helpful not only for me but for other people as well.
Regarding your questions on the followers: Do you pay attention at the number of followers? Because, in general, I don’t – it’s not a measure of quality or professionalism. What’s more, Slideshare is not of those kinds of social network where people tend to “follow” (in my opinion), they just go there, observe, check out presentations, share them, embed them, etc. So I think it’s not worthy to wonder why there aren’t more followers. Let’s put the emphasis on the value :)
Twitter: ewichka
// Jan 17, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Thanks for the answer, Petya!
Because of you and professional opinion, I’ve already followed these people and will read all the interesting presentations.
And no – it’s not important for me how many followers do they have, I was just curious about your opinion :)
I am definitely going to follow those accounts too. Thanks for sharing with us Mr. Petya.
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Twitter: pgeorgieva
// Jan 17, 2011 at 2:51 pm
It’s always great when we form such “small” professional discussions :) Hope to see you here again & hope this post was useful :)
Petya, this is very interesting. I have looked through some of them and although I haven’t heard of all them the content they provide is very diverse and useful! Thank you for sharing!
Twitter: pgeorgieva
// Jan 21, 2011 at 10:31 am
Hey Seema, I’m glad this was helpful and interesting for you :)
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Very kind of you, Petya, thank you!
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Twitter: pgeorgieva
// Jan 21, 2011 at 12:14 pm
You’re welcome, Stephen! :)
Twitter: BridgetForney
// Jan 21, 2011 at 9:42 pm
This is a great list, but many on it are not even active users of Slideshare. Some (e.g. Brian Solis) don’t even have presentations uploaded at all. Maybe this list could have been better if it was compiled based on the participation/interactivity of the user — not just the influence of the person/account’s name?
Twitter: pgeorgieva
// Jan 22, 2011 at 11:20 am
Hi Bridget, Thanks for your comment :)
What impressed me during my search on Slideshare is that it’s difficult to find active users who constantly provide valuable content on this platform. On the other hand, (in my opinion) producing good presentations is not an easy work and this explains why people can’t upload great presentations on a daily basis. That’s why I decided that it’s good to follow the influencers in order to stay tuned when they have something new. In addition, most of the accounts in the list have at least one presentation uploaded as of the article date. I see now that Brian Solis (as you pointed out) has no presentations currently and maybe I missed this when I was working on the list. I’m sorry to see that the article wasn’t good enough for you, but I’m sure that there are very helpful presentations provided by the majority of the accounts in this list. The time I’m spending on checking presentations is very important and useful for me and I’m interested in catching up with the presentations the big names are creating. Of course, I’m sure that there are a lot other great accounts which are interesting to follow too.
Hi Petya thanks for including me on this list. Have a great weekend.
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Twitter: pgeorgieva
// Jan 22, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Hi Jeff, You’re welcome ;) Enjoy the weekend! :)
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Twitter: davidbrier
// Apr 25, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Excellent list of contributors. Two quick comments: Jessedee has done a great job of filling slideshare with great presentations. I would add him to the list.
And for your enjoyment, here is one brand new presentation that any professional who’s passionate will enjoy:
http://www.slideshare.net/brierman/brand-leaders-sex-the-untold-story
Thanks again for the post.
Twitter: pgeorgieva
// Apr 26, 2011 at 11:54 am
Thank you for stopping by and commenting, David. I will take a look at the presentation, sounds interesting :)
Twitter: davidbrier
// Apr 26, 2011 at 12:19 pm
You’re very welcome Petya.
Plus, since you touch on branding and branding firms, here’s one additional one which has received almost 8,000 views in just a few months:
http://www.slideshare.net/brierman/whats-killing-your-brand-darker-alt-2
Have a great day.
Long live great content!
David Brier
Twitter: pgeorgieva
// Apr 26, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Hi again David, I like the presentations – they are quite unusual and different as well as inspiring, which is great :) Thanks once again – for sharing and for stopping by to comment! Viva la great content! :)
Twitter: davidbrier
// Apr 26, 2011 at 6:14 pm
My pleasure. Enjoy!
I see now that Brian Solis (as you pointed out) has no presentations currently and maybe I missed this when I was working on the list. Hi Petya thanks for including me on this list. Two quick comments: Jessedee has done a great job of filling slideshare with great presentations.
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