This is BIG! Direct share from Drive to Google+ and more

Great new tool!  I'm really enthusiastic about all the possibilities opening up...  For free.

Two videos embedded in one post by Claude Rieth

Share from Google Drive presentations (Slides) directly to Google+, Twitter and Facebook

- Remember to make the presentation Public!

When your Slides are ready, click on the blue Share button top right and you'll get choices: Click on the Google+ and you'll get a normal G+ share window pop open. Same with Twitter and Facebook, though they don't show the presentation as nicely as Google+ does (interactively), just as a link.

Edit and edit again, no need to reshare

If you wish to re-edit the shared presentation you can. 

If you also wish the cover in the post of the shared Slide to update, Edit the post, remove the presentation. 

A link button appears: Click on that, add the link to the edited presentation, save and voila.

Mind boggles at the possibilities...


I just whipped up something really fast:

Two slides here.

Move your mouse over the cover image, there are clickable links, try one or two. You can start a slideshow, watch in full screen, download the whole caboodle or just click slide by slide when small.

The best thing is, you may (as the owner) update the Slides anytime.

With a scroll mouse you can flip through the slides right here.

See some examples what people have done:

Paul Stickland is as het up as I am:

The search visibility should be brilliant, and that full screen functionality... Suddenly google plus has 'dimension' and depth. This is big.

Links:

+Paul Stickland blog       +Claude Rieth posted a Scrapbook example

+Gerwin Sturm made a nice little slideshow about what is shown and what does not work

Google Drive and sharing to Google+: Video from the Google Developers

Install Google Drive:

Get started with Google Drive

You may also use the ready templates!

Needless to say, this feature has passed the Blonde test with flying colours.

How would you use this?  Can you see the possibilities?