SlideShare and HD Online Meeting Provider Fuze Meeting Launch "Tell A Story" with $5,000 Grand Prize
Winners will be selected by online celebrities Pete Cashmore, Ann Handley, Tony Hseih, Om Malik, and Don Tapscott
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 27, 2009
SlideShare. net, the world's largest community for sharing presentations, today launched The Tell A Story contest (http://www. slideshare. net/contest/fuze-tell-a-story-contest) sponsored by Fuze Meeting. The contest boasts a Grand Prize of $5,000 and an impressive panel of judges that include business leaders, journalists, and social media celebrities.
The Tell a Story Contest challenges everyone who creates presentations to tell a story about any topic they choose, in 30 slides or less. The Grand Prize is $5000. Additionally, there are four prizes for Best Design, Best Story Telling Ability, Most Popular, and Best Use of MultiMedia.
To participate in the challenge, contestants can upload their presentation files to SlideShare. net, and people from across the world will vote for their favorites. Judges will choose the winners from among the top voted presentations. Contest entries can be uploaded until June 15th, 2009, and results will be announced on June 23rd, 2009. Judges include:
Don Tapscott: Don Tapscott is the author or co-author of 13 widely read books, including Wikinomics, the best selling management book in the United States in 2007. Pete Cashmore: Pete Cashmore is CEO of Mashable, Pete was selected as a Top 25 Forbes Web Celeb in 2007, while Mashable was chosen as a must-read site by both Fast Company and PC Magazine. Tony Hseih: Tony is the CEO of Zappos and has grown gross merchandise sales from $1.6M in 2000 to over $1 billion in 2008 by focusing relentlessly on customer service. Ann Handley: Ann Handley is the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs and the MarketingProfs Daily Fix. Om Malik: Om Malik is Founder and Senior Writer of gigaom. com. He has more than 15 years of experience as a journalist covering technology and business news including critical roles at Red Herring, Forbes. com, and Business 2.0. SlideShare contests have received thousands of entries and voters from previous contests that included judges such as Guy Kawasaki and Nancy Duarte.
This "Tell A Story" contest invites entries from all content categories on SlideShare including Business, Design, Tech, Education, Health, Entertainment, and more. The focus is on storytelling whether it's a story about your life experiences, something you love, or the story of your brand or product.
"We are excited to launch this contest and love giving the SlideShare community a new platform to express themselves in all categories. We will anxiously await the variety of entries and votes we anticipate receiving," said Rashmi Sinha, CEO, SlideShare.
"The Fuze Meeting team is delighted to be a part of this fun contest. Our users tend to communicate visually thanks to our HD online meeting features and we look forward to watching people get creative with this topic," said Patrick Moran, VP Marketing, Fuze Meeting.
About Slideshare
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