slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

Powerpoint sucks. However, it's pretty tough to _not_ include a Powerpoint presentation if you're trying to convince someone that's used to Powerpoint. Slide:ology leaves irritating presentations behind.

Great stuff.

If you are finding an advanced book for presentation skills and slide design, you should love this one!

If you are finding a cookbook or a step-by-step instruction of how to build a powerpoint, you should not read this!

It is for advanced learner who really want to put design into presentation and slideshow. It is about a style and art rather than a production of a presentation file.

I recommend you reading this with these two...
Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)
Help with high impact presentations

Don't buy this book. The text is maddeningly small and poorly contrasted. With postage stamp size visuals it's like reading a telphone book.
Get The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams and check out the website of the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations, Michael Alley for templates and research based design tips.
With these two resources you'll have everything you need without having to wade through the padding in Duarte's book.

Since four months a go, I have been focused on how to transfer knowledge in the best way posible, studing the brain, marketing tactics, etc, how ever the visual techniques are fundamental, because human capture 80% in a visual way, so, this book teaches you several, concreat and CREATIVE ways yo manage the visual cues elements in order to send an interesting, clear and strong message or idea.

You just start at morning and finish it at evening, is very well writen and published, so, is congruent with what she say.

Only since I've purchased Presentation Zen have I've been so changed by a book about presenting, education, and sharing ideas with others. This book is about the mechanics of assembling a better presentation; who better to write it than the queen of presentations, Mrs. Nancy Duarte. Just one of her claims to fame (and a rightful one at that) is designing the slides for An Inconvenient Truth, presented and turned into a movie by Mr. Al Gore.

I only wish I could afford to drop off copies of this book at the desk of every colleague that I interact and present with at DOSUG, DJUG, and beyond. The transformation that the ideas contained in this book would have on their presentations is simply phenomenal. Nancy builds incrementally on each step in the book, taking you to better and deeper approaches to improving your presentations. She gives away her insider secrets on assembling slide order (spoiler: post it notes, used in creative ways + thoughts about snow globes), and what to put (and not to put) on your slides. You'll be surprised what she tells you to leave out.

If you are a casual or professional presenter you owe it to yourself to buy a copy of this book. Your presentations will be transformed to a higher level of training for your audience.