Wednesday, February 6, 2008

[applekeynote] Presentation Zen

I apologize if anyone thinks this post is a bit OT, but I finally got around to buying Garr
Reynold's book, "Presentation Zen" the other day and couldn't put it down. In his book Mr.
Reynolds addresses everything from getting into the head of your audience, creating your
outline effectively, to slide creation examples (less is more).

And as a professional photographer (one of my hats), I couldn't agree more with getting
rid of the cheezy ineffective clip-art and buying images from stock agencies to make your
message more visual and striking.

He starts out by saying Power Point Presentations, but gravitates towards "Power Point and
Keynote" by the first 15 pages. (Must be all those years of working for Apple).

Not to give anything away, but Silicon Valley entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki writes the forward
to the book using Power Point (actually probably Keynote) slides in probably the funniest
and shortest (kudos to the book) forwards I've ever seen. Also, our very own Les Posen is
mentioned in the Acknowledgments. Here is the link to Amazon (only because it has
pictures and reviews). It is available at the stateside chains like Borders and Barnes &
Noble.

http://tinyurl.com/2c2hhp

Cheers,
bill

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