slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations Review

I appreciated the way this book is laid out. I love the pacing, the typography, the visual aids and most of all the content. It makes sense that a book about presentations is presented well, but Nancy Duarte goes the extra mile and hits a grand slam with Slide:ology!

The case studies are perfectly relevant and efficient teaching aids for the reader. You decide if this is a pro or con but there are a LOT of case studies in this book.

As someone that works with a business that uses PowerPoint for nearly EVERYTHING this book armed me with a few other tools to help guide the "higher-ups" to a more successful design.

Chapter 3, Creating Diagrams is particularly strong as it helps expand your concepts of diagramming all sorts of different concepts. Hundreds of simple thumbnails to get you started; or use as is for an end state.

Chapter 12, which hardly could be classified as a chapter, is Manifesto: The Five Theses of the Power of a Presentation. SHORT, and AWESOME.
Bottom line: this book takes an everyday presenter and transforms them into a designer! The world would be a better place if everyone that was ever going to make a PowerPoint presentation sat down and read through this book FIRST!

Monkeybutlerninja gives slide:ology 5 `power point' ninja stars!

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slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations Overview

No matter where you are on the organizational ladder, the odds are high that you've delivered a high-stakes presentation to your peers, your boss, your customers, or the general public. Presentation software is one of the few tools that requires professionals to think visually on an almost daily basis. But unlike verbal skills, effective visual expression is not easy, natural, or actively taught in schools or business training programs. slide:ology fills that void.

Written by Nancy Duarte, President and CEO of Duarte Design, the firm that created the presentation for Al Gore's Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, this book is full of practical approaches to visual story development that can be applied by anyone. The book combines conceptual thinking and inspirational design, with insightful case studies from the world's leading brands. With slide:ology you'll learn to:

• Connect with specific audiences
• Turn ideas into informative graphics
• Use sketching and diagramming techniques effectively
• Create graphics that enable audiences to process information easily
• Develop truly influential presentations
• Utilize presentation technology to your advantage

Millions of presentations and billions of slides have been produced -- and most of them miss the mark. slide:ology will challenge your traditional approach to creating slides by teaching you how to be a visual thinker. And it will help your career by creating momentum for your cause.

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