Calling all sys admins / backenders: Puppet Hackday is happening at SlideShare Delhi office on 13th Mar – http://www.barcamp.org/Puppet-HackDay-Delhi

Luke Kanies, founder and CEO at ReductiveLabs (guys who make puppet) will be speaking.

You should come if you’re interested in system automation OR are currently looking to better manage your server cluster. There is also a competition at the end, and we’re giving away iPod touch as prize.

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

When we announced branded channels a few weeks ago, we promised that we would launch a set of topical channels, with high quality content. We are launching the first of those today – focused on Web Hosting.

Our editors have identified the best content on SlideShare about Web Hosting and put it together in this channel. Every week, we will be adding more. If you upload content on this topic, please post your SlideShare username to this thread and we will look up your presentations when we next add content to the channel.

If you are interested in Web Hosting, this is a great place to keep up with the latest trends and read in depth analysis. We will add new content every week – so follow the channel to stay up with the news.

Thanks to our sponsors Softlayer for bringing us this channel. SlideShare is hosted with Softlayer and we love the services they provide.

We will be adding more topical channels weekly. If you would like to sponsor on a topic you care about, please email me directly.

SlideShare is recruiting a Content and Community Evangelist for the New Delhi office. The requirements for this profile are as follows:

Content & Community Evangelist
Location: New Delhi

Profile:

• You will be SlideShare’s public face to the community. You will have to play varied roles and look into engagement with our users across multiple channels.
• You will have to interact with our customers in building discussions, initiate conversations, mediate, solve problems, elicit feedback/ideas surrounding our content and products.
• You will be the eyes and ears of our brand and be responsible for reputation management and damage control.
• You will be responsible for the content management (spam removal, content categorization into verticals, text edits) across the site and our applications.
• You will need to work closely with our technical team, to identify core issues, regulate, prioritize and resolve bugs / complaints lodged by our users.
• Create reports and performance metrics, analyze data and provide suggestions to better the overall user experience.

Desired Background:

• Excellent communication skills. Must be well versed with the nuances of written communication viz. Blogging, social media conversations, user feedback, presentations etc, and have a strong sensibility about the different forms of writing. It would be an added plus if you have a popular blog/website to show examples of writing – preferably both informal blog type writing and technical FAQ’s, user documents.
• Good technical know-how. Ability to understand the way the site and our app functions. Should have experience building blogs, websites and know basic HTML & CSS. Should be able to communicate with engineers about user issues and understand what’s possible with the technology (we don’t want you to write code, but we want you to be able to understand what is feasible)
• Strong analytic and logical skills. Ability to understand problems, prioritize and mitigate them ably.
• Degree in marketing, mass communication etc. may help (not mandatory)
• Prior experience in support functions and CRMs would be a plus.
• We will require a portfolio of all the work that you have done.

Email us at jobs[at]slideshare[dot]com

Term sheets can be a confusing array of terms, especially for first time entrepreneurs. Given the rise of angel funders and small rounds, it makes a lot of sense to standardize terms and documents for the funding. Additionally, the cost of a Series A can run upwards of $50,000.

Ted Wang from Fenwick has put together a set of documents for startups doing funding rounds of less than $1.5 million.

Series Seed is a set of normalized documents which can be used as a starting point for smaller funding rounds. What’s important is that a number of firms have agreed to use these documents in their deals: Baseline, Charles River Ventures, SV Angel (Ron Conway), First Round Capital, Harrison Metal Capital, Mike Maples, Polaris Venture Partners, SoftTech VC, and True Ventures.

As entrepreneurs having gone through the funding process, we think this is a great idea. We want to welcome Ted and the Series Seed documents to SlideShare.

You can download, embed and discuss the documents from the channel. And below is one of the four documents

Thanks Ted!

The US Department of Defense has established a SlideShare channel at http://www.slideshare.net/DepartmentofDefense.

They have shared several presentations and documents about their social media policy, including the presentation embedded below.

This is part of  a larger opening up on the part of the US Military. New York Times reported today that the Department of Defense is opening up to social media sites.

Its a sign of changing times that the US Military now has a SlideShare presence. We think its great that the US Military is joining the conversation alongwith other Govt departments (such as EPA, Whitehouse). Please drop a line on their channel welcoming them!

Army Social Media Presentation

View more presentations from Department of Defense.

Steve Crepeau is the founder of True Sales Result, which offers innovative sales consulting services and models to software or technology based services companies. We had the pleasure chatting with Steve and pulled out some highlights regarding his experience with LeadShare.

On Using LeadShare:
LeadShare is very intuitive and easy to use. I set up my first campaign in under 5 minutes.
On LeadShare costs & value:
LeadShare is cost effective compared to other options. It’s valuable to drive traffic and leads from their large user community.

LeadShare vs alternatives:
LeadShare is one of my preferred lead generation sources because of the ease of use, flexibility in what information you want to collect from the leads and the quality of the leads.

Lead quality:
LeadShare provides higher quality leads than other sources. You can tailor your content or presentation to attract the right audience.

Hey guys,

We’re going through problems with our web servers right now. Therefore, site is down. Our cluster engineers have pulled all stops to get back to normal operations as soon as possible. Stay tuned for further updates in this thread.

UPDATE: We’re back up and running. Have a good day!

With the SXSW buzz building up, I have been feeling depressed about not making it to Austin this year. Here is my homage to SXSW – a channel to pull together presentations the past and this year’s SXSW.

There are so many reasons this channel could be useful to you

• You are going to SXSW, but partying so hard, you might miss some of the best presentations
• You want to reminiscence about some of the great presentations from last year
• You are a speaker and want your presentations to go beyond SXSW
• You cannot make it to Austin and are feeling wildly jealous of everyone there (like me)

Just follow this channel (press follow button under channel logo) and you will stay up with all the presentations at SXSW.

If you are a speaker – how to you get your presentations into this channel? Just tag them “sxsw2010″ and they will show up here. We will feature from presentations from the channel all through SXSW – so your presentation will be on the home page!

With my apologies to Hugh Forrest, this is an unofficial SXSW channel, built on the generosity of speakers like you who share their presentations with all of us.

Thanks for sharing! Go, check out the channel.