Feature Request for Slideshare

So, I’ve been putting all my new presentations into Slideshare. But as part of the organization kick I’m on, I’d like to put up all of my old slides, or at least selected presentations as well. But I don’t want the presentations from 1997 to show up at the top of my listing either on my profile or in MySlidespace (where I as publisher can edit the slideshows that are displayed publicly).

I posted to Slideshare’s feedback system . The original thread was started “1 year ago” and Amit, a Slideshare employee, responded “though we plan to do that sometime soon”. Fast forward a year, where there have been a number of others asking for the same thing. Four days ago I added: “+1 to Russ’s question. Though it seems as if this is never going to get resolved.” Amit (apparently a cofounder of Slideshare) responded today and said that they’d be releasing something in 10 days. And he asked for our use cases.

So “coming soon” a year ago became within the “next 10 days” a year later.

Here’s what I wrote to Amit:

Amit,

Hi, thanks for offering to listen to my use cases.

So the use case:

Recently I started a new job at a university and have been posting the presentations I’ve given at conferences to Slideshare. Usually I do them right after I give the presentation, but sometimes there’s a delay and sometimes I load newer presentations first and then the older presentation. This puts the older presentation first in the list of my slideshows, even though, it was presented before some of the presentations that display after that.

And, ok, now that I’m using Slideshare to share my presentations, why don’t I put my older presentations up as well? Well, if I do that, it’ll push all the new presentations so far down the browse display on my profile and for my use, that I’ll have to start using search to find my own presentations. Yes, it might be a side use case to do this, but I’m going to be prepping them for sharing/archive from my personal website, so uploading them to Slideshare isn’t that’ big of a deal.

So, I’d like to be able to reorder the display of my presentations.

Really, I can think of a few different methods of implementing this, I think either of these two would be fine.

– Implement a metadata field for presentation date and auto-sort based on presentation date, newer presentations before older presentations.

– Allow my to arrange the sort order of all my presentations. This works for both me and for viewers of my profile page, I can choose what presentations are the first ones they see. Doing this in an ajaxy drag and drop way would be slick. For the case of uploading older presentations, I’d likely do this once. For the case of highlighting certain slideshows at the top of the list in my profile, I’d do this often.

– Allow me to create a set of favorite presentations that displays on my profile page. I can add selected presentations to that area, and preferably set all new presentations to show there. Really, I’d do this one in addition to one of the others. Let me put my favorite presentations at the top of my profile page. And also let me sort slides in MySlidespace.

Thanks for listening.

–Brandon

We’ll see what happens.