Say It With Charts: The Executives Guide to Visual Communication [Hardcover]

Step-by-step guide to creating compelling, memorable presentations

A chart that once took ten hours to prepare can now be produced by anyone with ten minutes and a computer keyboard. What hasn't changed, however, are the basics behind creating a powerful visual - what to say, why to say it, and how to say it for the most impact. In Say It With Charts, Fourth Edition --the latest, cutting-edge edition of his best-selling presentation guide -- Gene Zelazny reveals time-tested tips for preparing effective presentations. Then, this presentation guru shows you how to combine those tips with today's hottest technologies for sharper, stronger visuals. Look to this comprehensive presentation encyclopedia for information on:

* How to prepare different types of charts -- pie, bar, column, line, or dot -- and when to use each
* Lettering size, color choice, appropriate chart types, and more
* Techniques for producing dramatic eVisuals using animation, scanned images, sound, video, and links to pertinent websites

Section I: Choosing Charts.

Section II: Using Charts.

Section III: Say It With Concepts Metaphors. Visual Concepts. Visual Metaphors.

Section IV: Say It.Com.

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As a professional, your career relies on reaching audiences, convincing them that your message is valuable, then making them remember that message.Say It With Charts, 4th Edition, walks you through the entire visual presentation process and shows you­­step-by-step­­how to create compelling, memorable presentations.

Business presentation tools have changed tremendously. A chart that once took ten hours­­and ten co-workers­­to prepare can now be produced by anyone with ten minutes and a computer keyboard. What hasn't changed, however, are the basics behind l.