MR CM Grenier said
Visual storytelling can help presenters in the workplace. A visual presentation can complement technical and financial slides in a business meeting. A presenter should balance hard facts with emotional slides to excite, even entertain your business audience. The worst sin of a business review is to bore your audience. As an instructor of executive presentation design and visual communication at China's top business school in Peking University, I can say with confidence that Slideology 'gets it'. For the price of two movie tickets, Duarte Design enables you to learn the vital skill of delivering impactful, visual stories. Technology has made PCs, digital cameras and editing software cheaper, consequently presentations have evolved from word slides and bullet points to video graphics and photos. Duarte Design helps understand these changes. Slide:ology is the definitive book on how to design modern presentations.
But critics are right, Slideology is not the right book to help you learn presentation delivery skills. The book also does not go into too much detail about how to create a presentation for different scenarios such as a business review, a pitch to venture capitalists, or a delivering a town hall address. Useful books for learning verbal presentation delivery and how to converse with different audiences include: Maxey's 'Present Like a Pro', Toogood's 'The Articulate Executive'. -Also to illustrate financial data, I recommend Few's 'Information Dashboard Design'. -[...]
Why I think Nancy Duarte is qualified to write a book on presentations:
Like the title states, Nancy Duarte and her large professional team of presentation designers at Duarte Design know the 'art' and 'science' of visual storytelling. Duarte Design accumulated experience by serving the presentation needs of Silicon Valley's top firms for decades. Recently Duarte Design supported the top presentation event in the world, TED the Technology Entertainment Design Conference. Duarte Design was the consultant that perfected the presentations used in for Al Gore's Oscar winning 'Inconvenient Truth', a documentary on global warming.
Yasser A. Altwaijri said
One of the greater books I have bought recently. This book is lead everybody to a fact! That making presentations are both art and since.
Suzie R. said
All my Analysts and Project Managers are now fighting over this book. They say they've gotten fresh, new, practical ideas from it that are easy to implement. For once they got exactly what they were needing-help to make their presentations work!
PF said
slide:ology's title says it all: it is time to leave behind all conventions as we knew them - and enter the 21st century in style. Duarte's "less is more, and pretty is better" philosophy is a tremendous resource for presenters who wish to engage their participants through visual media. This book, along with "Presentation Zen" and "Beyond Bullet Points," should prepare even the least experienced speaker for what used to be a daunting task: capturing and holding everyone's attention. Beyond reaching that goal, we also learn to enjoy the production process as well.
Joshua K. Nieten said
Other reviewers have complained that this book is written purely for professional designers, but I couldn't disagree more. Most of what is written in this book about design is already common knowledge for professional designers. The book is to help NON-designers create presentations that LOOK like they are created by professional designers. I am a professional designer (eLearning) and I recommend this book to everyone I know who is not a designer but is involved with the online learning at my company. This book addresses SO much more than just visual design. I LOVE this book and it has become one of my favorites in my work library. Beautifully done. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is in an eLearning or presentation field. So many others in my industry rave about the book "Beyond Bullet Points"... but I think it is over-rated. Slide:ology is SO much better, in my opinion.
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