Getting the Message Across
Using Slideware Effectively in Technical Presentations
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Beschreibung
Create memorable presentations on technical and complex topics in slideware such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple’s Keynote for Mac. Learn good pacing and rhythm as well as judicious use of special effects.
Whether the goal is to help a sale or to educate, and whether the final delivery is a live presentation, a webinar, or a short video presentation, this book focuses on the particular difficulties linked to technical presentations. You will learn to create a story when there is none, gain the interest of an audience who may not feel as strongly for the topic as the speaker does, turn abstract concepts into visual models, overcome the limitations of the medium (limited space, two dimensions), maintain interest through rhythm, and use effects, not to look cool or get that "WOW" moment, but to serve the message.
Getting The Message Across presents a number of field-tested ideas for raising interest. The use of various techniques and careful scripting will help you, even if you aren't a natural-born show-person, to communicate effectively, and to make your audience remember your message, and not necessarily your slides. This book will teach you:
- Rhythm and animations, and the use of transitions
- To hold audience interest even with "dry" topics
- To create memorable presentations
- Techniques useful for PowerPoint, Keynote for Mac, and any similar presentation medium or environment
Getting The Message Across is a book for the numerous people who have to give technical presentations, who like technique, who want to interest their audience, but who only feel comfortable with dense presentations and recognize that the Steve Jobs style isn't for them. This book gives advice and many ideas to those using software like Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple's Keynote for Mac on how to cut, slice, and give rhythm to a dense topic to raise interest without sacrificing information. Readers learn to produce presentations that are as fit to be delivered live as to be turned into videos for the web. The book advocates a quasi-cinematic style. A strong emphasis on practical slideware techniques -- good in PowerPoint, Keynote, and any similar medium or platform -- will appeal to an audience of technically-minded people, and will help prepare a strong base of attention-holding slides that will give them confidence when presenting.
Explains how to slice and rhythm a technical presentation to make it interesting to the audience without sacrificing content Gives slideware techniques that are as suitable for a live presentation as for a webinar or a video tutorial Helps readers prepare solid, interesting presentations they can rely on, and which boost their confidence
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Stéphane Faroult
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PowerPoint Keynote Slideware Presentation Webinar Speaking Animation Transitions Bullet Points Presentation Zen Beyond Bullet Points Slides Charts