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Puppet hackday @ SlideShare Delhi

All sysadmins / backenders: Puppet hackday is happening at SlideShare Delhi office on March 13th. http://www.barcamp.org/Puppet-HackDay-Delhi

Its a 1 day event in Barcamp format. There is a talk by Luke Kanies, founder and CEO, Reductive Labs (guys who make puppet). There is going to be a competition at the end of the event and SlideShare is giving away iPod touch as prize! http://blog.slideshare.net/2010/03/10/luke-kanies-speaking-at-puppet-hackday-delhi-this-weekend/

Sign up here http://www.barcamp.org/Puppet-HackDay-Delhi if you’re coming.

Using SlideShare to promote your business

SlideShare today launches SlideShare Business - LeadShare and AdShare - two incredible tools to promote your business. This is SlideShare’s business model. After 3 years and some rapid traffic growth, this seems to fit the bill.

Simply put, LeadShare is a way to collect leads for your business while users are watching your documents on SlideShare or embedded anywhere on the web. The information you can collect from the lead is customizable with option of asking upto 5 custom questions. Cost per lead varies with the details you want from the user, starting from as low as $1 per lead.

AdShare lets you promote your documents alongside similar documents on SlideShare. You can think of it as ‘adsense for documents’. So, assuming that a user is watching a document on SlideShare, your business pitch/document will have a chance to show up as the ‘next document’ on the same webpage. A ‘chance’ since your document will have to go through a series complex algorithms based on similarity, category targeting and CTR performance in order to show up at the top. Right now, every click on a promoted document costs $0.25 for worldwide targeting and $0.35 for country specific targeting - pretty darn cheap, IMHO.

Yes guys, this is social media generating business for you! The two products are patent pending and going to see constant improvements based on your feedback and experience. Hope you have a terrific time using them. Go, try ‘em here.

SohilGupta.com is up and running

So, finally, after much hardwork and figuring out how to run a LAMP-based site on a VPS, my brother has been able to put together his blog at sohilgupta.com. Nifty, eh? Here are some learnings he picked up on his way to get this done. Congrats doode and keep writing!

SlideShare Tweetup

Hey guys, SlideShare Tweetup is happening at SlideShare’s New Delhi office on Monday, 5th Jan 2009 6PM onwards. And, you’re welcome. Click here to register for the event.

It’s going to be an informal gathering of fans of SlideShare and Twitterers in Delhi. Rashmi Sinha, CEO SlideShare is going to attend the tweetup. It’s a good time to catch up with her and the SlideShare team.

And there are going to be snacks, wifi, gossip etc. I will be there.

More from blogsphere:
http://blog.gauravgupta.in/2008/12/slideshare-tweetup-on-monday-05-jan.html
http://www.webyantra.net/2008/12/27/slideshare-tweetup-on-monday-5-jan-2009-at-600-pm/