We posted recently about SpeakerRate, our first official Pointless Project. It was behind a private beta wall, and we invited in a small group of folks to provide feedback so we could make it better before releasing it to the world. Their feedback was great, and some of it was “why the wall?” For this kind of app, the wall seemed to really hinder the full experience.
The most obvious use case for SpeakerRate is this:
- Speaker creates an account and adds her upcoming talk (if it’s not in there already — many are).
- On the last slide of her presentation deck, Speaker adds something like: “So, how’d I do? Let me know at speakerrate.com/[username].”
- Attendees go to speakerrate.com/[username], rate Speaker’s talk, and leave some constructive comments.
- Speaker reads the comments and learns how she can give a better talk next time.
Pretty simple. The problem with the wall was that it blocked Step #3 above. So, down came the wall.
Good ideas and feedback continues to come in, which is helping us make SpeakerRate better. Keep it coming!
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do you / can you / when will you folks integrate with SlideShare?
(disclosure: i’m an investor in the company, but more importantly all my presentations are on there…)
Thanks for the comment, Dave.
We’d definitely like to, as much as possible. We’ve looked into it, and have tried to contact the SlideShare folks to make it happen, but we haven’t heard back. Things may have changed since then that would help us make it happen more easily, but we’ve put that featureset aside for the moment.
Of course, if you could help make that connection, we can move it further to the top of our list
But yes, we’d love to have slides embedded in SpeakerRate talk pages, and it’d certainly be nice to share ratings back with SlideShare if it makes sense to display ratings/reviews there.
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