This is a case for their being two slide decks. Or rather, that slides can be used as a shareable graphic-heavy document OR as an aid to giving a talk, but the same deck can’t be good at both purposes at the same time.
Sounds better in theory than in practice. Making two separate slide decks and then hopping everything makes sense when you share one after people expect the other isn’t good.
If you have to serve both uses, text goes on the slides. If you’re primarily speaking then just include the speaker notes and hope it makes sense. If the slides will be shared primarily, text goes on the slides and you just deal with it while presenting.
Guys.
Slide decks have a "NOTES" view.
Put pretty pictures in the REAL view.
Share it and they will read the NOTES view.
Duh.
> If the slide deck is meant to be something that can be shared around and make sense without you, it needs to have a lot of text on the slides.
Then isn't that just a document? Why use a slide deck?
Yes, but then your audience doesn't need you to give the talk.
Counter examples:
https://web.archive.org/web/20161223041152/https://idlewords...
https://boringtechnology.club/
Those talks don’t have too much text on slides, yet they can still be shared as text by including the speaker’s script aligned with each slide. They also have online video versions for comparison.
If you need to share the idea of the talk using just the slides then that’s a totally different problem. You shouldn’t make the slides worse for people who can attend the talk.
Use skippable slides with the supplementary content?
If the slide deck is meant to be something that can be shared around and make sense without you, it needs to have a lot of text on the slides. Even putting it in the speaker notes doesn’t work.
So make sure you know your audience and the context (also important presentation advice)