For my slideshow I decided to follow Jenna's lead and a.) use Blogger's integrated slideshow tool / Picasa and b.) make my slideshow consist of selected pictures from my own trip to Japan.
It's still possible to share this slideshow / photo album through Picasa (direct links to posting on Buzz, Blogger, and Twitter, code to embed the album or slideshow into a post, the ability to add an album to your RSS feed). So in the case of Blogger, where there is a slideshow option already integrated, there's no significant need to use a different external tool, as perfectly functional as they may be.
In my opinion, the fewer steps you have to take outside of a particular interface to fill your needs, the better. If Blogger can fill many of your needs as far as different tools are concerned, why not use what they offer?
If we're talking about sharing full-fledged presentations and not just casual photo collections, then you would want to utilize some sort of screencasting application like Jing, CaptureFox or Screenr (among many other options). That's a whole other ball game, though.
These sort of photo sharing tools could definitely help to spruce up a library blog, and it would be a great way to make photos from recent events visible right in a post, as opposed to providing a link to a Flickr gallery (one extra step, I know, but still...).
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