Product Description: 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.
COmplete Resource This book is a comprehensive resource for those who live and die by the creating high impact presentations. I have been looking for this type of one-stop guide for presentations for a long time... well done.
Better communication through less data Most of us are not trained graphic artists. We don't really know how to produce or deliver effective visual presentations. Nancy Duarte says professional communicators need to learn how to create visual stories that connect with our audience. She explains the 'why' of good design. For example, we presenters should realize that data slides are not really about the data. They are about the *meaning* of the data. That is, a slide's value is determined not by the amount of information it contains, but by how clearly it communicates conclusions and insights.
Easy to understand, well explained, full of examples - a great book. This book explains HOW should you make your presentation in order to get FULL effect and WHY should you make it that way. It explains all the concepts and challenges behind most presentations, the risks and the questions one faces.
I really enjoyed this book because it explained to me the many mistakes we make and all the preconceptions we have when we think about what a good presentation is.
I've been doing presentations for a long time and I am pretty successful with them. But the truth is all I knew before reading this book was based on intuition and some common sense. This book explained everything I knew and also a thousand more things I did not know.
It has lots of examples and it is very easy to read. Recommended.
Slide:ology Slide:ology tops my list of titles that have had an impact on me. After only skimming through the book it changed the way I think about and create my training presentations. I loaned it to a co-worker who then purchased her own copy. Two other co-workers also wanted to read it and I have since purchased 12 more copies to give to people throughout my organization. Slide:ology is a quick, easy, interesting and powerful read. I recommend it to anyone who has to create presentations.
Great practical book I started applying the techniques written in the book while still reading it. My team had to prepare presentation for a offsite that was supposed to set the context for our development over the next few years. Structuring the presentation as described in the book and allowing people to concentrate on the presenter instead on the slides we managed to make the biggest impact among the teams presenting. This book is great practical guide for every person who plans to present in front of other people. It will teach you how to structure your slide deck, what parts are in abundance and what is necessary; how to chose colors and words and most importantly - how to tell your story.
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