authorSTREAM: “doing to presentations as YouTube is doing to videos”

An Indian based Newsdaily recently featured authorSTREAM as an easy way to express and absorb knowledge, in a news article on PowerPoint sharing websites. The story talks about the potential of PowerPoints and the role of PowerPoint sharing websites, featuring authorSTREAM among the top Content and PowerPoint sharing websites, and as “doing to presentations as YouTube is doing to videos.”

The story goes into detail mentioning some of the power tools that authorSTREAM offers like: broadcast your presentations on the site, convert them into videos, and also retain voice narrations and also collaborate at work using it.

authorSTREAM has kept the basic essence of PowerPoint, beautiful craft with a fabulous interplay of images, video, animations, special effects and words. Along with it provides sophisticated ways to share presentations, privately by invite and publicly with the world, also offers widgets (software code) that can be embedded on blogs or websites; and share them on social networking sites like Twitter or Facebook.

The story points out the underestimated power of presentations, which authorSTREAM is very well helping its users realize. Have a look at some of the cool presentations of power users of authorSTREAM:

Nubia group’s Holiday Lights Around the World

Holiday Lights Around The World (5)

More PowerPoint presentations from Nubia

Sisi Kramer’s Shadows

Shadows

More PowerPoint presentations from Sisi Kramer

TiE’s Financial Statements and Ratio Analysis

Deloitte_TiE_financial ratios_30Sep

More PowerPoint presentations from TiE

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Embed presentation with branding: Replace authorSTREAM logo with your own logo

Are you a brand freak? Wanna retain it even when you embed presentation on website and blogs? Replace authorSTREAM logo with your own logo and give a customized look and feel to the presentation embeds. 

Benefits of branding with your own logo when embed presentation:

• Makes your presentation embed look like your own work with a personal logo
•  Keeps the viewers from being directed to authorSTREAM’s site as they can no more see authorSTREAM logo on your embedded presentation
• Customize your presentation further by choosing from pre-designed themes and border colors that best match your webpages

Anyone can tell just by looking at the presentation embeds that its yours.

See how it works:

This is how it looks when you embed presentation with authorSTREAM logo:

This is how it looks when you embed presentation with your own logo:

How can you replace authorSTREAM logo with your own logo in authorSTREAM presentation embeds?

It’s simple. Become a privileged business member of authorSTREAM and then follow these easy steps:

• Click My Stuff tab, select Premium Account link
• Click My logo option, you’ll be directed to My Logo page where you can upload a custom logo

• Once uploaded successfully, go to My Presentations link from My Stuff tab
• Look for the presentation you have embedded into your blog/website
• Click Embed tab, select Customize Embed link next to the embed code provided directing you to Customize Embed window
• Personalize theme and border for your presentation embed
• Click Show Navigation Bar option, select Use Company Logo and save changes

Simply copy the updated embed code and paste it in your blog/website. You’ll see your own logo in the presentation embed. Remember your logo will only show up on presentations embedded outside of authorSTREAM.

Upgrade to business membership to enjoy the benefits of branding on presentation embeds.

The all new authorSTREAM’s features tour

You heard it right; authorSTREAM has a new features tour. We mentioned it while announcing our new home page and presentation page, but it deserves more than just a small talk.

The all new authorSTREAM tour gives you a complete tour of all the features that we offer to help you do more with your presentations. Starting from a complete feature set, it moves to each feature explaining with the images and animation all that you can do.

Like a story it unfolds to you all the features that authorSTREAM has in store for you. Right from sharing presentations, publically or privately, converting them to videos to promoting your brand with customized channels- all of them are wrapped in animations, attractive visual illustrations and video in the tour.

Take a sneak peek into the authorSTREAM feature tour

authorSTREAM’s homepage and your presentation pages gets a facelift

authorSTREAM’s home page poses a clean and aesthetic look, this time. With a ton of new features introduced in the last quarters, a new look and feel was due. A clearer description of the additions that happened over a period of time was also required - the all new authorSTREAM tour makes sure that you understand every feature along with its benefits. With images and animation, it’s a pleasant watch.

Home page looks different than before, obviously cleaner, navigation is pretty simple with featured presentations and channels just a click away. No more wandering in the maze of presentations.






Easy sharing options for your presentations
Presentation page gets a facelift too– social sharing features have been placed in a block on the left side of the player – where you can see them. We know how much you love sharing favorite PowerPoints on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or Delicious.
 
View More Presentations block also moves to the right side of the presentation player.

Not just that, use your Facebook account to comment on any presentation – no need to login to authorSTREAM. Download button sits right on the top of the presentation player for anytime download access, only if allowed.

Add any PowerPoint to your channel, mark it favorite, embed it into your blog or website. Access these and other such options from right under the presentation player.


Did you like our new design? Want to see more such changes, write to us your thoughts and suggestions at support@authorstream.com