Send Halloween Presentation Greetings Using authorSTREAM

We have discovered that PowerPoint is a very powerful greetings-creation tool so we want to share this ability with our users by increasing activity on the presentation greeting cards section, through which you can share PowerPoint presentation greetings with your contacts.

In line with this idea, we have recently also implemented the address book feature in the greetings section, which enables users to import contacts and send greeting cards to them without a restriction on the number of recipients. This was restricted to only 25 recipients initially. Along with this, we have created a special Halloween PPT greetings section and will be adding other events too shortly. We thank all the members who sent feedback on the new look and feel and we encourage you to send your views to us on feedback [at] authorSTREAM [dot] com.

As we all know, Halloween is the spookiest time of the year, and is celebrated on October 31. This is the Christian holy day of All Saints. The day is associated with the colors orange and black and is strongly associated with symbols like jack-o-lanterns, spiders, vampires, ghouls, zombies, haunted houses, witches on brooms etc.

authorSTREAM extends the capability of PowerPoint by accepting presentations created in
PowerPoint and providing a platform to send these presentations as greetings. All available Halloween presentation greetings on authorSTREAM have been created using PowerPoint. You can create your own presentation in PowerPoint with animated images, sound files etc.; add rehearsed timings, and upload your presentation to authorSTREAM to send as a greeting card.

Check out this Halloween presentation greeting card:

Happy Halloween 2009

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Write to us or drop in your comments with your views. Also stay tuned for our Thanksgiving wishes, which will be added very soon.

Education Discount - Limited Period - 90% + Off :-)

This is an announcement for a special education discount for teachers and students. Starting today and ending on the 30th of September, teachers and students can avail a discount of over 90% on authorSTREAM's Premium Pro services. A Pro membership, which costs $300 (yearly) will be available for only $24.95.

With this offer, you will get up to 500 private presentation uploads, ad-free browsing and unlimited video conversions. Here's a membership comparison chart for easy feature reference.

And no matter what the price is for the Premium Pro service, You can upgrade for $24.95 every year until 2014!


As this offer is valid only until midnight CST of 30th September, 2009, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible :-)

Now Creative Commons (CC) Attribution for Your Presentations

Yesterday, we implemented Creative Commons attribution options for your presentations on authorSTREAM, with which you can assign copyright licenses to your presentations.

This means that presentation authors now have a choice from the default six CC licenses and an "All Rights Reserved" option for their presentations. You can choose a license when you are uploading a presentation or you can choose/change it from your dashboard when you are logged in. Here's a snapshot showing where you can choose while uploading:



You can also modify the license options on your already-existing presentations. All presentations carry the "All rights reserved" attribution by default. The option is available on the "Your Stuff" page and on the main presentation page. On the "Your Stuff" Page, click the "Edit Presentation Info" link and you can change the license option:


Additionally, you can change your license from the main presentation page:


An "Advanced Search" feature has also been added to the search box. This new feature provides 2 options in advance search.

1. Only downloadable - This will sort only downloadable presentations from the basic search.

2. Only search within Creative Commons licensed presentations - This will sort search results for presentations with Creative Commons.

Here's a complete CC license list, showing details about what every license means.