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A presentation or slide deck is an online version of the visual portion of a demonstration typically presented in person at a conference, workshop, or other event. At in person presentations slides, composed of text and images are often projected onto a screen for easy viewing. Presentations can sometimes include animation transitions, video, audio. Often presentation files will include written parallel speaker's notes.

Typically a presenter will post a copy of their slides before or after a presentation to allow users to view them either after-the-fact for follow up or they may post them contemporaneously to allow remote-viewers a better experience. Some people may keep copies of their presentations online as part of their portfolio. Some conferences may request a copy of one's presentation or a link to for viewing after the event.

IndieWeb Examples

A multitude of good examples can be found on the page for Presentations about the IndieWeb.

• Tantek Çelik kept slides for years at http://tantek.com/presentations/ but at some point started using simple notes as slides
• The IndieWeb wiki has the ability to do presentations. See the first at IWC Baltimore 2018: Building Blocks and click on "Start presentation"
•   Jamie Tanna shares his slides on https://talks.jvt.me using reveal-hugo which combines Hugo and Reveal.JS
• Kevin Marks has some slides at http://slides.kevinmarks.com/ using reveal.js in a static directory
• Matt Mullenweg gave the State of the Word 2019 presentation using WordPress and the Gutenberg editor.
• Ton Zijlstra moved his slidedecks out of Slideshare in October 2020, and hosts them in a separate WordPress instance (description), using the speakerstack plugin (beta) which uses Convert API and Slick Slider.
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Resources

Tools, frameworks, resources for making presentations.

• shower.js (needs link) - HTML presentation framework
  • Tantek Çelik has used this for several presentations
• reveal.js an HTML presentation framework
  • Kevin Marks has used this for presentations
• Sli.dev is a Vue.js and Markdown based framework for building slide decks, with a focus on presenting code
• Template:slideshow - turn any indieweb wiki page into a slideshow! See link for details how. E.g.:
  • 2018/Baltimore/Building_Blocks

Silos

• notist
• Colloq
• Slideshare now part of Scribd
• Speaker Deck
• Powerpoint
• Google Slides

CMS Support

Some CMSs may have plugins or other functionality to make implementing presentations on one's own site easier.

• Known has a simple presentations plugin built into core that can be enabled.
• WordPress has a number of stand-alone plugins with varying functionality

See Also

• Kinds of Posts
• presentations (about the IndieWeb)
• event
• portfolio