Comments on: SlideShare: Prank, PR or Punk http://www.culturesmithconsulting.com/2009/04/slideshare-prank-pr-or-punk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slideshare-prank-pr-or-punk Engaging People Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:01:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tawny Press http://www.culturesmithconsulting.com/2009/04/slideshare-prank-pr-or-punk/comment-page-1/#comment-601 Tawny Press Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:23:00 +0000 http://www.culturesmithconsulting.com/?p=847#comment-601 All the talk about transparency, open and honesty went out the window on April fool’s Day. Some bloggers, as well as businesses play an array of jokes on their communities. I found the SlideShare prank, in poor taste. They obviously don’t know their own member base very well. We don’t use their service for entertainment, in general, but as a way to showcase our own or learn from peers presentations, on a variety of topics. A great deal of time and planning goes into a presentation. People are working harder for each piece of business today and every milestone is reason for celebration. To get people excited about their increase in viewing status, then ask them to broadcast it on Twitter, while SlideShare’s staff followed the joke online was in very bad taste. SlideShare’s goal was to increase traffic and awareness to their website, at the expensive of member’s embarrassment. Good PR? I don’t believe so and they obviously realized that this “joke” wasn’t viewed as humorous, by their quick apology to their existing members. All the talk about transparency, open and honesty went out the window on April fool’s Day. Some bloggers, as well as businesses play an array of jokes on their communities.
I found the SlideShare prank, in poor taste. They obviously don’t know their own member base very well. We don’t use their service for entertainment, in general, but as a way to showcase our own or learn from peers presentations, on a variety of topics.
A great deal of time and planning goes into a presentation. People are working harder for each piece of business today and every milestone is reason for celebration. To get people excited about their increase in viewing status, then ask them to broadcast it on Twitter, while SlideShare’s staff followed the joke online was in very bad taste.
SlideShare’s goal was to increase traffic and awareness to their website, at the expensive of member’s embarrassment. Good PR? I don’t believe so and they obviously realized that this “joke” wasn’t viewed as humorous, by their quick apology to their existing members.

]]> By: Lee Graham http://www.culturesmithconsulting.com/2009/04/slideshare-prank-pr-or-punk/comment-page-1/#comment-600 Lee Graham Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:31:27 +0000 http://www.culturesmithconsulting.com/?p=847#comment-600 I know this caught me by surprise as well when I checked on a presentation I had up there. Overall my guess it probably won't hurt SlideShare since this is becoming more and more popular with websites doing this every April 1. For example Google always does something funny and they really go the extra mile to make everything look legit at the first glance. This year they did three: GMail Autopilot, CADIE I know this caught me by surprise as well when I checked on a presentation I had up there.

Overall my guess it probably won’t hurt SlideShare since this is becoming more and more popular with websites doing this every April 1.

For example Google always does something funny and they really go the extra mile to make everything look legit at the first glance. This year they did three: GMail Autopilot, CADIE

]]> By: Jim Hughes http://www.culturesmithconsulting.com/2009/04/slideshare-prank-pr-or-punk/comment-page-1/#comment-599 Jim Hughes Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:02:58 +0000 http://www.culturesmithconsulting.com/?p=847#comment-599 I might have fallen too if I hadn't seen your earlier post -- and I couldn't even get into slideshare because of all the traffic. I might have fallen too if I hadn’t seen your earlier post — and I couldn’t even get into slideshare because of all the traffic.

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