Nicholas has just released a new book, Love Presenting, Hate (badly used) PowerPoint:

“I have long wanted to write a book on the skills of awesome presenting; it’s now ready: Love Presenting, Hate (badly used) PowerPoint. The book focuses on how to develop the skills that the best presenters have: engaging their audience, creating the actions they seek and simple things such as keeping-always-to time. It addresses the whole portfolio of tactics such as building confidence, creating notes which don’t distract and what to do when you have to use somebody else’s slide-deck. And it puts PowerPoint in its rightful place: a support tool not a whole medium.“

I look forward to reading this – as I love presenting too, and rely on PowerPoint to help me craft and communicate what I want to say. I’m turned off by discussions about PowerPoint being the problem (rather than how it’s used), so am fascinated to see how Nicholas positions it in his new book.