Picture this: You’ve just built a presentation that contains very sensitive information.  You need for some people to see it – what it says is important, and you have put time and energy into the creating something you believe is the best way to get your thoughts across.  But (and this is a big but), it would be very upsetting if this presentation was seen beyond its intended audience.  What to do? You put “confidential” in the template, hoping people will get the message, and you email it where it needs to go. As you hit “Send,” you say a little prayer that it is only seen by the people to whom you are sending it.  And then you’ve done your best, right? There’s no way for you to know if it gets passed around, unless it happens to end up on the Internet. Which, sadly, seems to happen pretty often. Sound familiar?

At SlideRocket, we’ve seen a number of examples where this very thing has happened (here’s one, for example), and it would not be surprising to any of us to know that it has happened to you or within your organization.  This was part of why we built security into the SlideRocket application from the beginning – we think this is hugely important for any presentation, sensitive or not.

So now, imagine this: You’ve built the same presentation as above, but this time you’ve built it in SlideRocket. You can choose whether your presentation is publicly available, or you can opt to share the presentation via an email link with exactly – and only – the people you want to see it.  You can select a  password that is needed to view it.  You can further choose whether your viewers are allowed to print and/or embed your presentation or not. You can even set an expiration date on your presentation, so that it can only be seen for a certain period of time. Now, having set the security to exactly how you want it, you can hit “Send” with confidence. And even better? Once it is sent, you can track who has looked at it, when they saw it, and exactly how long they spent on each slide. You can KNOW that your presentation has stayed where it was meant to.

Your Information + Confidence + Knowledge. This is something you just can’t achieve using most presentation software, but SlideRocket helps you get there. Can you picture that?

We’d love to hear if you’ve used this feature, or stories about times you wish you had.  Please tell us about your experiences in the comments!