Presentation Statistics Added

We’ve introduced a cool new feature ‘Presentation Statistics’ that displays a list of website and blog URLs where your presentation has been embedded.

‘Presentation Statistics’ summarizes the number of views for each URL of the website/blog where your presentation has been embedded. The feature helps you to track the number of views/visits to your presentation and also provides link-backs to the websites embedding your presentation.


Limitations

View count sums up the views from embeds received after this release. The views before this release are not included in the statistics.

Language E-learning Presentation - Spanish Alphabet

Do you want to learn the Spanish Alphabet? This presentation by Bluebell makes it so easy!


Uploaded on authorSTREAM by bluebell

This presentation is also available for downloading as a podcast in iTunes, and for downloading as a video file, which can be used to upload to YouTube and other video sharing sites or for use as offline media.

Do you have an e-learning presentation to share? Just upload to authorSTREAM to get multiple sharing options for your students.

Subscribe To Presentation Podcast Feed in iTunes

Do you want to subscribe to a presentation podcast feed comprising of multiple authors (uploaders) in iTunes?

Yes you can do just that. You can subscribe to a category podcast feed that includes all presentation podcasts, which fall under the selected category. You can pick this feed from any presentation page.

Just follow the steps given below:

1) Go to authorSTREAM and copy the podcast feed link from a presentation page.












2) Open iTunes and from the top menu, click on "advanced" -> and "Subscribe to Podcasts"











3) Paste the category podcast feed link and click OK.











and you are done. iTunes will download the presentation podcasts available in the feed. Once downloaded, you can easily synchronize iTunes with your iPod to transfer the podcasts. Here's a quick tutorial on the PowerPoint to iPod feature:





Uploaded on authorSTREAM by DaveGrewal

We invite you to share your own tutorials. Simply upload your presentation, which shows how to use a feature on authorSTREAM and we will feature it here on the blog!

My Presentations Widget

We just added a widget to display your presentations from authorSTREAM on your own websites or blogs. You can simply click on the "My Uploaded Presentations" page when you are logged into your account and you will see a new link in the left navigation "My presentations widget":






Clicking on this link will open a dialog box to create and customize your widget:













You can choose from 1 thumbnail to upto 5 thumbnails to be displayed.

Here is what the output looks like:




















Please note that scripting needs to be "enabled" in your blog or website for the widget to display correctly.

We will be adding more widgets like this one in future releases. You are most welcome to share your ideas about more widgets that you would want to see on authorSTREAM.

Presentation Embed Code Compatibility Issues Solved

Spaces, Bebo, LiveJournal

Some authorSTREAM users were having issues with presentation embed code on spaces.live.com, bebo and LiveJournal. We've updated the embed code to make it compatible with these sites. Now authorSTREAM embed code will work fine on all these sites.

Wordpress

We've also released special embed code for WordPress. Currently, our embeds don’t work with wordpress.com blogs (example.wordpress.com) but they work fine with WordPress hosted blogs (Powered by the Wordpress blogging software). You need to install the authorSTREAM WordPress plugin in your plugin directory in order to use WordPress embed in your hosted blogs. You can download the plug-in from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/authorstream/

Known issues

Full screen doesn't work on spaces.live.com

We would like to hear from you if you face any problem with the embed codes. Do drop in a comment or mail to support@authorstream.com and we will get back to you promptly.

Transfer Presentations to YouTube

Geetesh on using authorSTREAM for YouTube

The PowerPoint to YouTube service has been started recently on authorSTREAM and has drawn a lot of interest in the PowerPoint space. Geetesh Bajaj a Microsoft® MVP from Indezine has created this excellent video tutorial about this offering:

Another tutorial

Here is a cool presentation on how to use authorSTREAM to transfer your presentation to YouTube:


Uploaded on authorSTREAM by TechGuy

More buzz

Here are some sites with references to the service:

On Mashable: Send PowerPoint presentations straight to YouTube

"This expands the reach of content created on authorSTREAM, and simplifies things for the user as well. Once content is on YouTube, it becomes even easier to share across the Web, as it’s the reigning standard of video-sharing and many other sites have YouTube support for things like search, embeds and URL retrieval."

On StartupMeme: Your PowerPoint presentations at YouTube with authorSTREAM

"The authors are helped by being provided with a wider reach; obviously!"

On Vivek's blog: authorSTREAM has added a new feature

"So if you have your content as video, everyone knows the authority of YouTube and the visibility it brings to your work. But downloading it from one website and then uploading it to another was a bit of a pain--both time-wise and cost-wise. So this new extension from authorSTREAM is a very nice offering, which solves some problems of people like me."