{"id":427,"date":"2008-06-25T19:50:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T02:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2008-06-25T19:50:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T02:50:53","slug":"presentation-zen-simple-ideas-on-presentation-design-and-delivery-voices-that-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/06\/25\/presentation-zen-simple-ideas-on-presentation-design-and-delivery-voices-that-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-427\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Presentation-Zen-Simple-Design-Delivery\/dp\/0321525655\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1214448161&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><span id=\"btAsinTitle\">Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"btAsinTitle\"><strong>Author<\/strong>: Garr Reynolds<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 240 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> New Riders Press; 1 edition (January 4, 2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 0321525655<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0321525659<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A friend of mine suggested this book to me over a year ago and I finally got a chance to read it.  And I&#8217;m glad I did.<\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about how I got where I am, and what might make me special and useful.  This book may help you find some of those answers too.  The author spent a great deal of time in Japan, and applies many Japanese concepts to presentations; in a sense using life to imitate art (or design if you will).<\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been experimenting with giving presentations without slides; I&#8217;ve been learning this from members of my current team, who seem to intuitively understand how to work a telephone crowd with a mere wiki page and the spoken word.<\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about decks without words, which is near what the author would suggest &#8211; strip the slides down to the minimum that displays the core ideas, then talk to the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Getting back to basics.  Applying improvisation and connection to presentations.  Really good stuff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-427\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 427);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-427\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-427\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) Author: Garr Reynolds Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: New Riders Press; 1 edition (January 4, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0321525655 ISBN-13: 978-0321525659 A friend of mine suggested this book to me over a year ago and I finally got a chance to read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2344,191],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-presentations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-6T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}