The french version of PZ the Garr Raynold's book, is indeed a good news for french people for 2 reasons : the first reason is that french people including myself are not excellent in English and of course it is always helpful to get the true meaning of what we thought to have understood from the original ( it happens sometimes that this makes a great difference) and the second reason is that PresentationZen is a wonderful book about design and presentation. This book has not only influenced my sense of design and the way i am working now on slide presentations but it gave me some very valuable concepts that continue to help me in my all work and life on a daily basis. Furthermore Garr's blog allowed me to discover and to be connected to many great blogs and to great authors like Seth Godin, Daniel H Pink, Guy Kawasaki, Nancy Duarte...
We really need this book in France and i am wondering whether here, we are suffering from bad slideware more than anywhere else around the world (i hope i am wrong) . And this again for 2 reasons : First, in France, we are very homework oriented and therefore we always need to prove that we have properly made our work and that means we can't afford to let the space empty on the slide in the same way a brillant student can't afford to make white copy. And second,in France, we specially appreciate being regarded as a little bit smarter than the others and that's the reason why we don't hesitate to produce slides that are complex and awfully boring
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yes indeed presentation is a great book but i prefer the original in english
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