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	<h1 itemprop="name">Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations</h1>
	<p itemprop="description"><span itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">Neal Ford</span>, <span itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">Matthew McCullough</span>, and <span itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">Nate Schutta</span> sat down four years
	ago at a table and discussed how to collect, write about, and
	share the knowledge of many presenters with the world of
	occasional and frequent presenters. The result is this book: <a
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	Patterns</a>.</p>

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		<h1 itemprop="name">Why?</h1>
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			Improving every aspect of a seemingly soft skill such as presenting is difficult to act on when the
			suggestions are abstract. Patterns provide a series of steps and implementation details that make
			presentation improvement easily actionable.
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		<h1 itemprop="name">What?</h1>
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			Presentation Patterns is a book of over 100 recipes that provide actions to perform and avoid and context as to why you should or should not perform.
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		<h1 itemprop="name">How?</h1>
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			The book is divided into three major sections: Prepare, Build, and Deliver.  This allows readers to drill in, even with a presentation deadline looming, and improve the content and impact of their talk via actionable and bite-sized instructions.
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