Robin-Yann StormNov 7

As someone who speaks at a lot of conferences: Don’t use Google Slides.

99.99% of the time it will be better to use Keynote or PowerPoint.

It’s nuts the amount of times I’ve seen Google Slides fail, not load video, and flashbang the audience with a completely white frame after every slide.

Show threadRobin-Yann StormNov 7

Often Google Slides does not cache the next slide even if you are in offline mode.

Yet whenever I see a conference speaker use it, and then it doesn’t work well because of the conference WiFi, they act surprised.

Why?

You’re ‘relying’ on ‘conference WiFi’. Anyone who has visited a conference is able to spot the naivety in that thought process.

Show threadRobin-Yann Storm

So, download your presentation to PDF, or if you have gifs and videos download it to PowerPoint and have all your files on disk.

Please, do everyone else and yourself a favor: Stop presenting with Google Slides.

Nov 7 at 10:57amWeb
Show threadRobin-Yann StormNov 7
Always download your presentation to PDF, or if you have gifs and videos download it to PowerPoint or Keynote, and have all your files on disk.
Show threadRobin-Yann StormNov 7

If Google Slides has a million haters, I am one of them.

If Google Slides has one hater, that one is me.

If Google Slides has no haters, that means I am dead.

Show threadBad SectorNov 7
@RYStorm Actually please have PDFs anyway (+separate video files if needed) since they can be read anywhere :-P
Show threadRobin-Yann StormNov 7

@badsector I think it depends. I try to never share my slides, as on their own they do not have enough context for what is on the slide. It’s the age old problem of not having too much text in each slide, because it’s boring to an live audience, but better for slide sharing.

Instead, I share the recording of my talk, and a blog version of the talk. That way I have more control over how the content is displayed

Show threadBad SectorNov 7
@RYStorm ah yeah, recordings are also nice. Note that i'm talking from the "receiving" perspective when it comes to sharing the slides outside a talk :-). Personally i keep my own archive of all talks/slides/etc, i found interesting over the years and having these as PDFs (+video recording, if any) is much easier than any other alternative as it allows people to read them from any device and operating system (and there are many tools to work with PDFs too, e.g. for searching).