I'm a big fan of Zack Holloman's approach:<p><i>Something I’ve been doing recently is making a screen recording of my talks using QuickTime on my Mac. It’ll record both my voice and my slides as I flip through them. It’s a much better experience than just posting contextless slides.</i><p><a href="http://zachholman.com/posts/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-public-speaking/" rel="nofollow">http://zachholman.com/posts/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-pu...</a>
I agree that slides should not be the whole story. Whats the point of having slides if the speaker is basically reading them? Whats the point of the speaker if the slides contain everything that is being said?<p>On the other hand, I do love when slides act as a brief summary of the talk because I often don't want to spend 45 minutes to listen to a talk when all I want is a summary or if I don't yet know if the talk is interesting to me, or if I can't watch a video right now for whatever reason and want to know if I should bookmark it for later. But thats not the real reason I like slides to be made available.<p>The biggest reason of all for you to put your slides online is that I have seen countless videos of talks where the slides are unreadable (too small, too blurry, too low resolution - whatever) or the camera focused completely on the speaker and never showed the slides at all. Not all videos make the slides available (eg if its on vimeo or youtube, rather than something like infoq) - in these cases, often the video is worthless unless the speaker makes the slides available on their website.
Ack, that still doesn't prevent slides from going online. Just include your speaker notes. Problem solved. More work of course, but problem solved. Here's a fantastic example.<p><a href="http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2012/GDC2012_Ruskin_Elan_DynamicDialog.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2012/GDC2012_Ruski...</a>
I am amazed the OP is never asked for their slides, even though they are not useful by themselves. I once gave an hour-long talk using no slides at all (I basically talked over a demo of live screens) and I <i>still</i> got asked for my slides at at the end.
I think if you want to make something for the web, put up a video of the talk, or write and article as well.<p>I hate slides being put up, it makes people put stupid crap that doesn't belong in slides, in slides.