Duarte Rocks!

Posted October 31st, 2009 by Paul Pettengill with No Comments
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Happy Halloween everybody!  Above is an entry to this year’s annual Duarte Pumpkin contest. It’s posted here, because of this month’s book… Slide:ology and it’s author Nancy Duarte.   I posted earlier about Presentation Zen and Garr Reynolds, and Nancy and Garr are good friends, in fact the whitespace on the cover of Slide:ology is Garr’s silhouette.   Well, Slide:ology is a great compliment to Presentation Zen, it takes things from a very practical perspective around images, colors, transitions, everything.  Duarte (the firm) was responsible for all the visuals in An Inconvenient Truth.

Nancy was nice enough to do an interview with me about her book and her career.  Please see an excerpt below.

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A Brief Guide to a Brief Guide to World Domination (with a long title)

Posted September 7th, 2009 by Paul Pettengill with No Comments
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About 9 months ago I was introduced to this great little PDF guide about being remarkable and it really changed my mindset on what is possible and what we can do in the world.  At the time I was really busy launching Alt-MBA and discussing a book a week, and I had been wanting to post on this guide for some time.

I caught up with the author Chris a few Guillebeau months ago, and we had this podcast interview. I will once again credit Matt Cheney for his yoeman’s work editing this interview.

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