Getting the Message Across

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

Autorentext
Stéphane Faroult is primarily known as a database specialist and author. He also has a dotted but regular experience of teaching that dates back to the 1980s. He has taught students full-time so far at two different universities (in Canada and in the US Middle West), with 30 years of consulting in-between. He has also taught part-time at several French schools of engineering, on various subjects. He has given countless training courses and seminars on database topics to professionals. He has spoken multiple times at user group conferences, given a webinar, and given technical sales presentations to customers. More than once he has had to talk many time-zones away from home in a language that isn't his native one (nor, sometimes, his audience's), relying on massive amounts of coffee and solid slides to survive the ordeal. More recently, he has turned some of his presentations into video tutorials that have met much success on the web, and which have proven to be a great way to experiment in techniques he now wishes to share.

Zusammenfassung
Tagline: Communicating with PowerPoint and other presentation software

Inhalt
Introduction.-.-1. Designing a Presentation.-2. The Score.-3. Populating Slides.-4. Editing Images.-5. Transitions.-6. Animations.-7. Putting the Magic Together.- 8. Appendix A. Introducing Oneself.- 9. Appendix B. Licensing Issues.-10. Appendix C. Documents.