MONDAY JANUARY 11, 2010

We need another book about presentation design!

Not many people know that Garr is the one who talked me into writing my book. He sent me the outline to his first PresentationZen book and I covered topics that he didn’t include in his. So how many more books can be created on the topic? Plenty!
Garr’s new book PresentationZen Design is beautiful. He [...]

Topic: Book Reviews
Tags: garr reynolds, presentation zen

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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Book Review: Six Pixels of Separation

NANCY DUARTE

Mitch Joel is president of Twist Image, a agency with offices in Toronto and Montreal. I met him at TED two years ago. It’s nice to read a book by another CEO who is running an agency and taking on the role of author—I can empathize with the challenges. Mitch did a fantastic job encapsulating [...]

Topic: Book Reviews, Strategy
Tags: blogging, mitch joel, review, social media, twist image, twitter

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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Cheating by Charting. An excerpt from Spear’s Practical Charting Techniques

NANCY DUARTE

There are few of us who, at at one time or another, have either exaggerated or shaded the truth by either bragging or playing down a story. What we say may not be an untruth, but we want to emphasize one fact to a certain party, and a different fact to another.
The same bragging or [...]

Topic: Book Reviews, Design, Strategy
Tags: charts, data, grid, trend, truth, visual image

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

It Used to Take Three Highly-Trained Professionals to Make a Presentation

NANCY DUARTE

The opening line in my new MOST favorite book is, “The response to a visual presentation will determine its value.” No, this is not a newfangled book on presentations written this year, it’s the book “Practical Charting Techniques” written in 1969 by Mary Eleanor Spear, the statistician of governments and Presidents. My good friend Glenn [...]

Topic: Book Reviews, Diary
Tags: chart, data, glenn hughes, mary eleanor spear, practical charting techniques

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FRIDAY AUGUST 28, 2009

Insightful Book on Better Speaking

NANCY DUARTE

I love the book “Great Speeches for Better Speaking” by Michael E. Eidenmuller, Ph.D. He also happens the guy who has lovingly put together American Rhetoric http://www.americanrhetoric.com for us all to enjoy—I virtually live on that site.
Eidenmuller has spent his life devoted to collecting and analyzing speeches and he comes across with a humble authority [...]

Topic: Book Reviews, Diary
Tags: book review, Delivery, eidenbuller, history, speaking, style

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