Multimedia Technology - General & Miscellaneous, Graphics Programming, Meetings & Presentations, Business Software
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Overview
FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKIPresentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net - presentationzen.com - shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today's world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.
Synopsis
Best-selling author and popular speaker Garr Reynolds is back in this newly revised edition of his classic, best-selling book, Presentation Zen, in which he showed readers there is a better way to reach the audience through simplicity and storytelling, and gave them the tools to confidently design and deliver successful presentations.In this new edition, Garr gives his readers new, fresh examples to draw inspiration from, with a whole new chapter for those who present on more technical and educational topics based on techniques used by many presenters who give high-level talks at TED and other powerhouse events. Whether the reader is in research, technology, business, or education-this book will show them how to take what could look like a really dry presenation and reinvigorate the material in totally fresh (and sometimes interactive!) ways that will make it memorable and resonate with the audience.
Staying true to the mission of the first), Garr combines solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity to help readers along the path to simpler, more effective presentations that will be appreciated, remembered, and best of all, acted upon.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
Why couldn't business and technical presentations benefit from the ethos of Zen: its mindfulness, elegance, beauty, simplicity, restraint, naturalness, and balance? They could. Mightily. Presentation Zen is about making that happen -- and, in so doing, communicating with unprecedented clarity, passion, and effectiveness.What is Presentation Zen? Not a step-by-step cookbook but an approach that starts with rediscovering your creativity and learning how to apply it, even in the most prosaic environment. Reynolds helps you ask the right questions, rough out your ideas by hand, and craft a story with authenticity that can't help but compel your audience. Then: storyboarding, design, delivery. Every image, every word needs to matter: nothing wasted, nothing there merely for "decoration" or to fill out a set of dreaded bullet points. Reynolds shows how to do all that and offers some very inspiring examples. You'll never present the same way again -- thank goodness. Bill Camarda, from the January 2008 Read Only
Book Details
Published
December 22, 2011
Publisher
New Riders
Pages
296
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780321811981