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Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)
by Garr Reynolds
from New Riders Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Lessons from a master...
  I ditto what all have said. Garr Reynolds created what should be thought of as a Bible for Presentations. One area that has not been addressed in these reviews is the utility of this book for professional (i.e., medical, scientific) presentations. I find that using Reynold's basic tenets for the Introduction and Conclusion of a presentation, and inserting the hard data in the middle creates a novel and arresting change to the typical "Death-by-Powerpoint" scientific presentations. His ideas regarding... more info

• This book has transformed my presentations, overnight!
  I make a lot of presentations at conferences and business meetings. The ratings I receive are almost always Very Good to Excellent.
  Over the last decade, these presentations have evolved from PowerPoint to Keynote, and improved incrementally. I'd seen reviews of the book, but did not buy it until getting a recommendation, in a casual conversation at the New Media Expo.
  After reading Presentation Zen, I felt the absolute need to redesign ALL my presentations. I reworked the first one, yesterday,... more info

• Give this to your boss
  I remember getting my hands on Harvard Graphics way back when and being so excited about how it would revolutionize presentations. But basically, though the software has improved since then, we use it the same way. Reynolds shows it doesn't have to be that way; you don't have to shoot your audience full of bullet points. I think you could probably get the gist of his message by reading his excellent blog - the book could have gone further beyond that, I think. In any case, if you suffer from presentation... more info

• The Journey of Creating Effective Presentations
  99 percent of PowerPoint presentation sucks. So begins Presentation Zen with an introduction from Guy Kawasaki. Or I should say, the book opens with a presentation from Kawasaki. Before getting to business, author Garr Reynolds explains that Presentation Zen is an approach not a method.
  This book doesn't give you step one, two, three. If it did, the book would turn into a method. An approach provides guidelines and direction. Reynolds looks back at the history of PowerPoint along with experts' slamming... more info

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