{"id":1088,"date":"2009-02-21T10:24:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T18:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2009-02-21T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T18:24:41","slug":"slideology-the-art-and-science-of-creating-great-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/02\/21\/slideology-the-art-and-science-of-creating-great-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-1088\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/slide-ology-Science-Creating-Presentations\/dp\/0596522347\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1235238764&amp;sr=1-1\">slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author:<\/strong> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Nancy%20Duarte\">Nancy Duarte<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 294 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> O&#8217;Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (August 12, 2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 0596522347<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0596522346<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to take your presentations to the next level, I suggest these things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find a local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toastmasters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toastmasters<\/a> club,<\/li>\n<li>Read this book and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=427\" target=\"_self\">Presentation Zen<\/a>, and<\/li>\n<li>Practice, practice, practice!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The author is a noted presentation guru who runs her own design company.\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to engage your audience, this book will help.\u00c2\u00a0 This book will show you a way to create exceptional presentations.\u00c2\u00a0 The book has multiple sections, along with short examples of real people and real presentation material reproductions.<\/p>\n<p>One recommendation is to spend more time speaking and less time focusing on the presentation materials; 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