I just got an invitation to participate in the beta for Slideshare, which I can best describe as YouTube for PowerPoint. The idea is to upload a PPT presentation, which is converted into a Flash format and shared on the site. You can tag your presentations to make them discoverable via search. And the code is available to either embed or link to the presentation within your own blog or website.

The site emulates YouTube in other ways. Each presentation you select comes with links to similar presentations. You can comment on presentations (although I don’t see a voting option yet). Google ads run down the right-hand side of the page.

I’m presenting tomorrow in Riverside, California for the Gary Goldhammer and Linda Zimmer, who are also speaking at tomorrow’s session.

Thanks to Niall Cook for pointing me to SlideShare. Niall’s post includes a presentation he uploaded and then embedded on his blog.