More on slide libraries

Some further thoughts on the use of SharePoint Slide libraries, following my earlier post.

1. Ownership

It is important that there is ownership of a slide library, otherwise members of the team will upload all of their own slides, resulting in duplicates and lots of similar slides. Further, amendments to existing slides should be approved by some defined process.

It is possible to grant permissions on a slide by slide basis, but this is very cumbersome and time consuming, especially for large libraries.

Perhaps a better solution is to have several libraries. So there would be a Marketing library for slides about the company as a whole, a Consulting library for slides relating to the consulting process and a Training library for slides that provide information about the training courses.

In this way there can be different owners for each slide library, for example someone from Marketing, someone from the Consulting team and someone from the Training team. This would then enable each set of slides to be managed by one person and consumed by many different people across the organisation. For example sales, recruitment, training as well as consulting will all want to use the marketing slides.

1. Combining slides from different libraries

Slides from different libraries may be combined into one PowerPoint presentation.

Select slides from Consulting slide library and add them to presentation