Getting the Message Across - Using Slideware Effectively in Technical Presentations

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.