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Book:   slide:ology
Subject:   You gotta buy this one!
Date:   2008-10-27 11:45:57
From:   DHolzemer
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

If you use any slideware at all you HAVE to get this book!
If you don't know Nancy Duarte or anything about her, she was the one that brought fame to Al Gore's presentation on Global Warming. This book is mainly about the graphic look and feel of what a good presentation should be. This is the 3rd part of my trilogy on designing presentation. The first is Cliff Atkinson Beyond Bullet Point then Garr Reynolds Presentation Zen. These are 2 fantastic book on writing out your presentation "story" and with that story written it time to move to PowerPoint, this is where Nancy's book comes in. It is filled with creative insight on how visuals can be use to convey your story. It's just amazing how she is willing to freely share her insight with the design community. The book is well thought out, the example's are just amazing and it is causing me to totally re-evaluate everything I've thought about creating and using visuals in a presentaion.


So if you do any type of presentation, stop what you are doing and run and buy this book!.


David Holzemer
Multi-Media Specialist
Carnegie Mellon University

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"Any presenter will savor this encyclopedia of slide design, filled with page after page of theory, principles, anecdotes, examples and real-world case studies."
--Cliff Atkinson, Author, Beyond Bullet Points