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Presentations: A MacSparky Field Guide
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First published June 1, 2014
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David Sparks
11 books36 followersDavid Sparks is an Orange County, California business attorney and a geek. David is also a podcaster, blogger, and author who writes about finding the best tools, hardware, and workflows for using Apple products to get work done. David also writes for Macworld magazine and speaks about technology.
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September 26, 2020
Here is an excellent volume on planning, creating and making public presentations using Apple's Keynote software. By reading the book on the iBooks app, I was able to take advantage of the several dozen screencasts scattered throughout the book to provide visual examples for the topics being studied. I've already had an opportunity to put quite a bit of the book into practice and will continue to refer to the text for future presentations.
February 3, 2019
This book comes from author's experiences doing lots of presentations. It contains very specific tips and tricks for Keynote application, which is fine IMHO. David also gives a lot of interesting tricks from his sleeves starts from preparation until after the presentation. Recommend for people want to learn how to give great presentation as a start. If you buy from iBooks Store, it comes with interactive multimedia to teach how to do certain tricks.
July 8, 2017
As a frustrated former art major, I resonate to visual advocacy in my law practice. Simplifying to persuade is a fine art. And Sparks lays out the tools and how to's with precision.
April 13, 2015
A useful book for both basic (and not so basic) presentation skills as well as using the Keynote app. Since reading it I've put some of the ideas in the book into practice and it has definitely improved the presentations I've given since. There isn't much else to tell about this book other than that it's good at what the cover says, improving your presentations, and for me it was worth the time.
One note though, if you're not using Apple's Keynote for your slides a big portion of the book might be less useful to you. While the lessons mentioned in the Keynote section of the book (which takes up about half of the book) are applicable to different applications as well, all the illustrations are for how it works in Keynote. Nevertheless, I do think you can still get use out of it with regard to what useful things are, and what you shouldn't do, and you can then find out how these work in your tool of choice.
One note though, if you're not using Apple's Keynote for your slides a big portion of the book might be less useful to you. While the lessons mentioned in the Keynote section of the book (which takes up about half of the book) are applicable to different applications as well, all the illustrations are for how it works in Keynote. Nevertheless, I do think you can still get use out of it with regard to what useful things are, and what you shouldn't do, and you can then find out how these work in your tool of choice.
August 21, 2014
Another great field guide delivered by David Sparks. I got more than my money's worth in excellent tips and tricks.
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