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Presenting for Geeks Kindle Edition

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A presentation is not about the content or about you - it's about your audience. Your job as a presenter is to take your audience to a place where they know about your topic, understand it and act on it. This book will show you how to achieve this.

In their presentations, geeks usually focus on the facts. Which results in presentations that are accurate, cover every aspect of the topic - and tend to overwhelm the audience. As a result, the audience will remember little, if anything, of the actual content.

Presenting for Geeks shows a different approach to presentations by putting the audience at the centre of everything. Seeing things from the audience's perspective leads to a more visual and engaging presentation style that helps them better understand and remember the content of the presentation. This approach is covered in three chapters: preparation, slides, presenting.

Garr Reynolds, author of "Presentation Zen", about this book: "If you or someone on your team wants/needs good presentation advice from a fellow technical presenter, then this is the book."
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 10, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Dirk Haun is helping people express and present their ideas. He's the author of "Presenting for Geeks" and "Brainstorming Your Presentation", organizer of TEDxStuttgart, and works as a presentation coach in Stuttgart, Germany.

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Arin Basu
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read for anyone presenting anything not just geeks
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2014
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Absolutely loved it. It gets a five star because it is a great book and not just on presentations alone and not just for geeks. If you are involved in writing or presenting ideas for any audience, you'd like to keep this book by you at all times. It starts out with a great advice, think the audience in mind, then lays out a pragmatic advice on writing out your script before putting it to the slides, and then discusses several very important pointers about building emotionally engaging contents, showing data intensive slides, and points of engagement including going out there and handling audience. I liked the book so much that I encourage you to give it a try, and subscribe to Dirk's blog. The book is also quite platform agnostic (doesn't matter what medium you use, you can apply the principles even if you are writing a blog post), which I found really beneficial. Strongly recommend the book,won't hesitate to award five star to it.
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Toon Verlinden
4.0 out of 5 stars Thank you for writing this book
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2014
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It was useful and comprehensive and I enjoyed reading it. The book combines a lot of things I already knew or read on a blog somewhere, but it was nice to see it all together in one place. It was well written and not to long: a nice read!
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C.Murphy
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent advice for presenters - in a nutshell!
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2014
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Thank you Mr. Haun. I found the book an excellent recap of all the good advice one can (and should) learn from presentation experts such as Garr Reynolds and Nancy Duarte. Also, the underlying fact that, presenting with authenticity means WORK - planning, preparing and early (partial) rehearsal, as opposed to "winging it" - made a lot of sense. Perhaps what I liked the most was the advice to focus absolutely on the audience, at the beginning when you first sit down and plan a presentatation, during the actual session respecting their time and needs AND at the end, when you want to trigger a discussion or when you want honest feedback. Applying the "continuous improvement" suggested, I sincerely hope to give better, more visual and engaging talks. A dip into this book will certainly help me each time!
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Bruna Martinuzzi
5.0 out of 5 stars Succinct and informative
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2013
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This book is organized in three sections: Preparation, Slides and Presenting. Each will give you useful information to improve your presentations. It's the first time I have seen anyone explain how to present code. You'll also find useful information on "bleeding" images, on trying a more visual approach for your agenda slide, and on pie charts, to name a few. If you are technical person (or anyone for that matter) who has a tendency to dump a lot of information on the audience, this brief book will prompt you to change your ways. "The most important part of a presentation is your audience" as the author says. Presenters so often forget this key point when designing their slides and delivering the presentation.
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Benjamin D. Dewey
5.0 out of 5 stars Short and sweet
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2013
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This was a short read that really affirmed a lot of my beliefs as a technology speaker. It offers a mash up of a lot of good tips and solidifies some basic best practices with regards to good manners and respect for you fellow speakers. It made me think of Scott Hanselman's quote about thinking of your audience as consultants that pay a large total sum of money to listen to you, wasting their time far outweighs your in investment in rehearsal, etc (not a direct quote).

+1 for Presentation Zen being the number 1 reference.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Very generic
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2014
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Tips are things like: show up early; use a microphone; repeat questions that people ask you; end on time - 90% of the book is just a bunch of no-brainers. If you don't know anything about presenting at all, you might find this book handy.

If you are an experienced presenter looking for tips on presenting tech topics, then I'm not sure this book has a lot of value. There are some practical tips on presenting code - such as, just as limiting the code you present to the bare minimum. That section of the book is a single page at most - not long enough to justify buying it for code presentation tips or even software presentation tips. I would've expected to see a lot more about software simulation vs live presentation, tips on zooming into software, etc. But none of that type of stuff is in this book.
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Donald L. Schenck
4.0 out of 5 stars Good pointers
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2013
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I have a decent amount of experience in public speaking and can vouch for the validity of the points in this book. Even an experienced speaker will benefit from the refresher.
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5.0 out of 5 stars No excuse not to read this if you're presenting
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2013
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I found this book to be a great summary of how to present a (tech) talk well. It was a fairly short read (under an hour) which should ensure this book is actually read and not just put in the big pile of unread books like most of the other books you buy.

The book also makes sure to point you to other important books on the subject if you want to dig a little deeper.
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Chris
5.0 out of 5 stars I recommend this to all new Presenters
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2014
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I read this book and applied the pointers to my presentations. I became more confident and I believe the quality and audience enjoyment of my talks went up massively. I now recommend it to any new Presenters who ask me for advice.
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Claudia
5.0 out of 5 stars Ob Geek oder nicht: LESENSWERT!
Reviewed in Germany on May 1, 2013
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Well written and amusing book! Even though I am not a geek, I found many helpful suggestions for my next presentation. Geeks do not only have the problem, that they assume everyone is familiar with their topic, but they also have to explain highly complex issues, which usually means lots and lots of boring slides(and thus also a bored audience). Dirk Haun helps to prevent that!

Das Buch ist amüsant und leicht verständlich geschrieben, da macht es auch nichts aus, dass es auf Englisch ist. Dirk Haun spricht ja die Zielgruppe der Geeks an. Die haben natürlich nicht nur das Problem, dass sie davon ausgehen, jeder kennt sich mit ihrer Materie aus, sondern müssen hoch komplexe Sachverhalte erklären, was meist jede Menge langweiliger Folien (und somit auch ein gelangweiltes Publikum) bedeutet. Haun gibt sehr viele praktische Tipps, wie man das verhindern kann. Obwohl ich kein klassischer Geek bin, habe ich viele Anregungen für die nächste Präsentation mitnehmen können. Danke dafür!
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John
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, informative read!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2013
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I'm fairly new to the presenting world and this book has really helped me to improve my presentation and presenting skills, At such a low cost, I would recommend this to anyone in the tech industry!
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MR R S WILKHU
5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable advice and tips for a great presentation
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 27, 2015
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Was recommended by a friend and am glad I bought it. It's short, simple and helped my presentation greatly.
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