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Clear information shows clear thinking, and clear thinking informs, influences and impresses.
How often do you stare at uninviting and confusing presentations, notes, reports and information packs and get nothing out of them? It doesn't have to be like this. We could all produce amazingly clear work that has incredible impact.
This book shows you how. It is full of ideas, tips and principles that are simple and easy to implement, yet brilliantly effective.
This book guides you through the most effective ways of using all forms of presenting information - tables, charts, slides, flowcharts, etc.
"I love Jon's work. His tips are hugely useful, his WiT fantastic and ground-breaking, and his book essential reading. If you want to enhance your sales tenders, pitches and slides if you want to win more business get into Jon's stuff. It's really, really good." Gavin Duffy, a Dragon on Ireland's Dragons' Den , top media coach and economics columnist with the Irish Sunday Independent
"Stunningly simple, yet mould-breaking. You'll never look at a bullet point the same way" Michael Izza, Chief Executive ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)
There are lot's of other reviews, all very favourable on the Amazon web page.
Presentation software is one of the few tools that requires professionals to think visually on an almost daily basis. Effective visual expression is not always easy or natural.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. With slide:ology you'll learn to:
"Ryan Coleman recommend this book to me as "better than 'On the Back of a Napkin', even." And he was right. It's not to say that Back of a Napkin is a bad book. But when it comes to the art of presentations involving anything approaching keynote or powerpoint, this book is truly to book of books. Loved it". Sean Howard
"This book is fantastic - not because it teaches you how to make incredible PowerPoints (but that it does), but because it's a guide to effectively communicating across almost any mixed medium." David Riordan
"Don't let yourself be boring. Nancy Duarte's book shows you by example how image/text/voice come together to mesmerize." Eric Chow Reviews (excerpted from goodreads.com )
slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations