In the spirit of Thanksgiving I wanted to give you some insight into one of the greatest places for sharing and discovering presentations.

Now is the time to build community on SlideShare.  A number of us have been using SlideShare.Net for nearly a year.  Recent innovations have really put it over the top in terms of obvious business value.  The audience on that site has grown significantly as well providing a great opportunity to get technology cross over audiences.

I just got back from a trip to Europe where I presented at Teched Europe in Berlin, Moscow SharePoint User Group, Stockholm SharePoint Exchange Forum, UK SharePoint Day with the Experts and Bournemouth UK SharePoint User Group.  All of those decks are now on SlideShare.

My Recent Decks from Europe and Recent

SharePoint Conference #SPC09

The New World of SharePoint 2010 Administration with Joel Oleson, Mike Watson

SharePoint Saturday Redmond #SPSRedmond

The New World of SharePoint 2010 Administration

Teched Europe in Berlin #TEE09

Considerations for Large Scale SharePoint Deployments on SQL Server with Joel Oleson, Todd Klindt

Teched Online: Video

SharePoint 2010 Unplugged hosted with Joel Oleson, Todd Klindt, Shane Young, Zlatan Dzinic, and Mo Omar

Find us all on Twitter: @ZlatanDzinic: @joeloleson @muhanado @ToddKlindt @ShanesCows

Berlin Quest Customer Appreciation SharePoint Dinner

10 Steps to Successful SharePoint Deployment

Moscow SharePoint Users Group

Preparing for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010

Sweden SharePoint Exchange Forum in Stockholm #SEF09

The New World of SharePoint 2010 Administration

Twitter and the SharePoint Community

London SharePoint Day with the Experts

Preparing for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010

Bournemouth, UK SharePoint User Group #uksug

The New World of SharePoint 2010 Administration

10 Benefits of SlideShare

1. Save on bandwidth and storage – up to 100MB per deck with apparently unlimited storage of presentations, and whitepapers (new!)

2. Better tracking per file including views, downloads, and comments

3. Better Exposure to a broader audience

4. New Integration with publishing decks to Linked in, Facebook, and integrated twitter widgets

5. Sufficiently Rich social media profiles with comments, tagging, events/groups, alerts, activity feeds, and following, including related content and more by this user (try the new toy Karaoke for a new way of browsing based on tags and visuals)

6. Inline viewing to save the reader from having to download before viewing

7. Include licensing restrictions included in download to provide protection, including view only, PDF, or full PPT/PPTX download – you choose what you want to provide

8. Rich forming community around SharePoint (3696) results (See below for list of SharePoint people)

9. User and Group Search in addition to presentation and document search

10. Sharing of your uploads and favorite presentations not only in your profile, but on facebook and twitter

Suggestions on SharePoint People to Follow on Slideshare for Decks, and Favorites

1. Pierre Erol Giraudy – SharePoint MVP France, President Club MOSS in France (French)
2. Joel Oleson – Professional SharePoint Speaker and Blogger
3. Dux Raymond – SharePoint Program Management Author/Expert SharePoint Saturday Speaker
4. Andrew Woodward – SharePoint MVP UK
5. Mike Watson – SharePoint Product Manager XMSFTIT & SharePoint Online
6. Sparked – Joint account BI, SharePoint technology specialist (Mart Muller)
7. Tom Resing - SharePoint Developer and blogger (MCM Candidate)
8. Geoff Varosky – SharePoint Consultant and SharePoint Saturday Speaker/Organizer
9. Kris Kalsing – SharePoint SAP integration expert
10. Jeremy Thake – SharePoint Developer – SPDevWiki guy
11. Chandima Kulathilake – SharePoint MVP NZ
12. Michael Greth – SharePoint MVP Germany (German)
13. Eric Kraus – MS MCS Consultant Powershell expert
14. Joshua Haebets – SharePoint Solutions Architect
15. Paul Culmsee – Director SharePoint
16. Dan Lewis – Sr SharePoint Consultant
17. PJ Coventry – SharePoint MVP UK
18. Luis Du Solier – Mexico Microsoft SharePoint PFE, Seminario (Spanish)
19. Kathy Hughes – SharePoint MVP Australia
20. JD Wade – Midwest SharePoint Consultant
21. Shadeed – Consultant and Baltimore SharePoint User Group
22. Lulu – SharePoint Design and UX
23. Dan Usher – SharePoint Consultant and SharePoint Saturday Speaker & DC User Group
24. Kenneth Lo – SharePoint Consultant/Evangelist Architecture, Workflow & Project Server
25. Alexander Meijers – SharePoint Consultant Netherlands
26. Mark Overdijk - SharePoint Consultant & Trainer Netherlands
27. Matt Groves – UK SharePoint Consultant, UKSUG
28. Scott Singleton – SharePoint Saturday Presenter, Consultant .Net Developer
29. George Khalil – Microsoft Sydney SharePoint
30. Kanwal Khipple – SharePoint Buzz, MVP Toronto

SharePoint Related Groups for Sharing

1. SharePoint 2010
2. SharePoint Professionals
3. SharePoint en Español