Five Great Ways to Share PowerPoint Presentations on the Web

Microsoft PowerPoint is a passionate tool to spread with graphs, images and statistical data. Have beautiful and wonderful PowerPoint presentations and want to share with your friends and coworkers, or allows anyone to get useful information freely? Then there is the question that how can we put and share presentations on the World Wide Web. And here I’ll introduce five effective ways to publish PowerPoint presentations to the Web.

1. Share Presentation on PowerPoint Sharing Sites
You can use several slide sharing sites to upload your presentations on the Internet. Such slide hosting sites could preserve the original quality of your presentation. So you just feel free to upload your PPT files onto them and finally you’ll get links to embed the presentation to your own site. Slideshare, authorstream, zoho, slideboom are recommended slide hosting services.

2. Convert PowerPoint to Flash/SWF file Format
Flash/SWF functions as the dominant format for displaying animated vector graphics on the Web and is high compatibility with all kinds of operating system and browsers. If you manage to convert PPT to Flash/SWF, your PowerPoint presentations could be easily distributable, viewable anywhere, rapidly viewed as streaming and also more secure.

Because the convenience of Flash/SWF format, I highly recommend one excellent PPT to Flash converter: iSpring Free (iSpring is compatible with any PowerPoint version 2000/XP/2003/2007 installed on a Windows machine).

iSpring Free is an all in one while totally free application that could convert PowerPoint to Flash handy. You can click to download iSpring Free, after install it, there will be a menu or toolbar added to your Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 or 2007. Then open your intended presentations, click Quick Publish or Publish to get flash slideshow edition of the presentation.

Also, if you want more powerful features, you can try iSpring Pro or iSpring PRESENTER.

3. Publish PowerPoint online via Google Docs or Microsoft Office Web Apps
Google Docs provide a free, Web-based presentation application. You could upload PPT presentations and share or edit them online while collaborate with other users real-timely.

After upload PPT files to Google Docs, you could see a Share option.

Click Get the link to share and check Allow anyone with the link to view (no sign-in required) to get sharing link of the presentation file.

 If you want other to be able to edit it, check Also allow them to edit also. And finally a unique link to your files will be available, anyone who want to view the PPT file, just use browser to open the link, freely and conveniently.

Office Web Apps are online office from Microsoft. To learn how to use Office Web Apps to publish presentations, you’d better read this post: Experience of the Microsoft Office Web Apps – Strong Catalyst on Cloud Office. This way of publishing is extremely appropriate for collaboration of the presentation files.

4. Save Presentation as HTML Web Page
In Microsoft PowerPoint, you can directly save presentation files as HTML Web Page, then others could view the presentation using Internet Explorer. Here I use Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, open a PowerPoint file and click Office button, navigate Save As -> Other formats.

From the drop-down menu of Save as type, choose Web Page, then click Save to convert PPT to Web page.

5. Upload PowerPoint to your website and link to it
 If you own a blog or site, you can directly upload presentation files to your hosting space and then give a link of the presentation to allow visitors to download. However, visitors must have Microsoft PowerPoint installed in order to view it. The alternative is to install PowerPoint Viewer to just play presentation files.

The Conclusion
After you have leaned several ways, have you managed to publish your PPT files to the Web? In my opinion, the first three methods, that is, Share Presentation on PowerPoint Sharing Sites, Convert PowerPoint to Flash/SWF file Format, Publish PowerPoint online via Google Docs or Microsoft Office Web Apps are more appropriate to apply. And of course, if you have more idea on this topic, I’d really appreciative for your sharing.