If you’re anything like me, you’ve experienced far too many presentations in the IT industry that fail to connect with the audience and never achieve what they set out to do. Presentations that reel off facts, yet don’t tell a story. Presentations that are overwhelmed with pages of text and bullet points. Presentations that show diagrams that no one understands. Presentations that go well under- or overtime, and are clearly not rehearsed. Presentations where demos routinely fail in front of packed crowds. All delivered by presenters who make numerous mistakes while they are on stage.
File > New > Presentation was written to give you the tools and techniques to avoid these pitfalls, and dramatically increase your presentation skills. These skills go well beyond just creating a slide deck, and include understanding your audience, planning the structure of your talk, rehearsing, delivering demos, preparation, and improving what you do behind the podium. With recommendations targeted towards software developers and other technical professionals, you’ll gain the knowledge to take your next presentation – and maybe even your career – to the next level.
"Essential reading for software developers everywhere"
-Tim Marshall, Chief Technology Officer. Neudesic, LLC
"File > New > Presentation is a treasure trove of sound advice, solid experience, and, above all, practical steps for designing, creating, preparing for, and making outstanding technical presentations. Simon Guest is a technical presenter and here he has distilled his experience spanning more than two decades, presenting, and watching and working alongside other great presenters, into a wonderfully readable, easily approachable book."
-Stuart Celarier, Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft MVP, Speaker, Consultant
"Simon's book is a real contribution to our industry. If you give presentations on technology, you need to read it."
- David Chappell, David Chappell and Associates
"I never thought a book on how to improve your presentations would be so entertaining and helpful."
- Peter Saddow
"The book, like so many of Simon’s talks, is chock full of outstanding stories that really drive home his points. I love seeing inside his head and into his process on how he builds his presentations from the abstract to the concrete."
- Josh Holmes, Microsoft
File > New > Presentation was written to give you the tools and techniques to avoid these pitfalls, and dramatically increase your presentation skills. These skills go well beyond just creating a slide deck, and include understanding your audience, planning the structure of your talk, rehearsing, delivering demos, preparation, and improving what you do behind the podium. With recommendations targeted towards software developers and other technical professionals, you’ll gain the knowledge to take your next presentation – and maybe even your career – to the next level.
"Essential reading for software developers everywhere"
-Tim Marshall, Chief Technology Officer. Neudesic, LLC
"File > New > Presentation is a treasure trove of sound advice, solid experience, and, above all, practical steps for designing, creating, preparing for, and making outstanding technical presentations. Simon Guest is a technical presenter and here he has distilled his experience spanning more than two decades, presenting, and watching and working alongside other great presenters, into a wonderfully readable, easily approachable book."
-Stuart Celarier, Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft MVP, Speaker, Consultant
"Simon's book is a real contribution to our industry. If you give presentations on technology, you need to read it."
- David Chappell, David Chappell and Associates
"I never thought a book on how to improve your presentations would be so entertaining and helpful."
- Peter Saddow
"The book, like so many of Simon’s talks, is chock full of outstanding stories that really drive home his points. I love seeing inside his head and into his process on how he builds his presentations from the abstract to the concrete."
- Josh Holmes, Microsoft
