Slide Spin

Presentation Skills for Non Designers

Non-Fiction - Business/Finance
Kindle Edition
Reviewed on 04/07/2015
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Author Biography

SuRA is a technology management professional with in depth knowledge in enterprise application and team integration. He has expertise in people and process alignment, business transformation and strategic IT management.

He has more than 20 years of experience across various facets of IT viz application architecture, network architecture, security , User Interface design, etc.,

SuRA is Slide Spinner with over 12,000 hours of creating corporate presentations and training professionals on presentation skills.

He is currently working as Executive Director at Karvy Insurance Repository. Hyderabad, India

He can be reached at sr@slidespinners.com

    Book Review

Reviewed by Bil Howard for Readers' Favorite

The moment we are asked to give a presentation or a sales pitch, the nerves kick in and every negative feeling we've ever had about doing a presentation suddenly tries to take over. Thanks to Subbarao Mukkavilli and Slide Spin: Your Power of Expression, you can calm your fears and create a presentation with confidence. This guide begins by debunking the myths that many of us have concerning our ability to create presentations. Subbarao doesn't stop there, however, he continues to boost confidence by giving us easy to remember and use tools for planning, organizing and perfecting our presentation. Making use of two acronyms, PRISM and SIMPLE, the reader is able to home in on exactly how to develop each slide for the presentation. With an in-depth look at how to not only develop, but distribute your presentation in different formats, Subbarao provides all of the necessary tools to calm your fears and help you create a kick-ass presentation.

Although I'm no stranger to making use of PowerPoint to create video and slide presentations, Slide Spin: Your Power of Expression was extremely helpful for enhancing my perspective on how to get the most bang out of each of my slides. Subbarao Mukkavilli does a great job of not only showing how to create each slide, but provides tools for planning and making certain that each slide and the presentation as a whole is well organized. Believe it or not, you too can create effective presentations. In spite of every objection you might have, Slide Spin: Your Power of Expression and Subbarao's confidence building approach can overcome those objections, fears and self-limitations. It is a must-read for anyone who is in marketing and sales, but goes well beyond those areas as well.

Mamta Madhavan

Slide Spin: Your Power of Expression by Subbarao Mukkavilli is a useful guide to those readers who want to unveil the tools of aestheticism and creativity while expressing their ideas and concepts. The book gives readers the confidence to create a successful presentation, shattering the myth that one needs to be a graphic designer, a multimedia expert or artistically inclined to create a presentation. The author gives a lot of useful tips and suggestions to improve on presentations. The book also introduces readers to the two concepts of Prism and Simple, and how helpful they are when it comes to creating a good presentation.

I found the book very useful. The author's suggestions and advice are not complicated and can be tried out by anyone. The style of writing is casual and it reaches out to those who know how to do a presentation and to those who do not. A lot of common myths regarding presentations are demystified through the book. The common myths about presentations and all details about creating a good presentation are discussed in detail, making readers more confident when it comes to creating a good presentation. The section of the book which speaks about corporate presentation gives more insights into how to make a perfect and impressive presentation. The book will also help one to discover their hidden talents and creativity through creating some impressive presentations.

Gisela Dixon

Slide Spin: Your Power of Expression by Subbarao Mukkavilli is a great, all-in-one book on the art and craft of creating memorable presentations. Slide Spin: Your Power of Expression explores all of the facets involved in creating and designing presentations in such a way that the message is conveyed in a succinct, impressive, and interesting manner. In Slide Spin, Subbarao Mukkavilli explains how to present information in a way that stands out while making artful use of fonts, colors, images, and glyphs in addition to words. He describes several tips and techniques on how to create designs and presentation slides, and provides links to various useful websites for this purpose. Subbarao Mukkavilli also introduces PRISM and SIMPLE: PRISM is a practical framework for creating presentations, to create the best output with the power to engage the audience, and SIMPLE is a simple checklist that lists the guiding factors for content development for presentations.

Slide Spin: Your Power of Expression by Subbarao Mukkavilli is written in a wonderfully engaging way that feels positive and encouraging at the same time. Subbarao Mukkavilli has provided some examples of presentation slides in this book and I was surprised and impressed at how good they look. This is a very useful book to have for people who give presentations frequently. I also think this book may be useful, even if one does not have to give presentations, because it contains a lot of tips on how to engage with and communicate with people, which can be extended into daily life as well.

Jack Magnus

Slide Spin: Your Power of Expression - Essential presentation development skills for non designers is a business/education text written by Subbarao Mukkavilli. The author introduces the concepts of presentation for business by presenting parallel instances from the personal realm. His character has been awarded a promotion and is planning a celebratory affair -- how does he plan for it? Using PowerPoint, Mukkavilli demonstrates how even those who've never thought of themselves as creative can foster that ability and produce compelling and effective presentations. He explains why presentations are so crucially important; discusses what makes a presentation work; and gives an overview of the online resources that are available and their uses. His appendices include a presentation checklist, links for online resources and tools, and an index.

Subbarao Mukkavilli's educational business text, Slide Spin: Your Power of Expression, is informative and it entertains as it teaches. The author's goal is to show those who've not had formal graphics training how a professional slide presentation can be developed following his guidelines and examples, and he does so brilliantly. I enjoyed seeing how he uses real-life examples to make the concepts he's presenting easily accessible to the reader, and was quite impressed by the presentation he conjures up before the reader's eyes. Mukkavilli's writing style is breezy and casual, and his text is filled with illustrations, anecdotes and inspirational quotes. He succeeds in presenting what could seem to be a complex and somewhat daunting subject in a way that's professional, inspirational and, ultimately, doable. His discussion of the online graphic choices, cloud storage and other online tools presentation designers have at their disposal is thorough and well-presented, and I'm planning on checking out many of the links he shares. Slide Spin: Your Power of Expression is most highly recommended.

Suzanne Cowles

Slide Spin: Your Power of Expression by Subbarao Mukkavilli is an engaging 'how to' guide for anyone who has to create a presentation. Divided into three sections, the book focuses on acquiring the tools and techniques necessary to express communication. Using the PRISM framework and SIMPLE checklist, learn the guiding factors for content development and stay on track with your main objective. Articulate new ideas or sell innovative products to gain a competitive edge using persuasive presentations in a methodical method. Explore the rationale behind creating compelling presentations, core concepts, online tools and trends while dispelling myths about creative people. Mukkavilli defines content versus context, the breakdown of graphics programs such as Microsoft PowerPoint, multimedia, distribution, web development, the cloud, talent mining and slide presentations. Supported by case studies, research and experience, Mukkavilli examines structured presentation development and the suitable deployment options.

Slide Spin: Your Power of Expression by Subbarao Mukkavilli is a great way to unleash creative power and make any passion a profession. At the beginning of each of the twelve chapters is a quote from famous people that sums up philosophies on communication. This detailed book is for anyone, not just graphics artists. It guides the reader through the various steps to design a visual presentation. Being a graphic artist myself, I often take for granted the skills I have. I forget that my co-workers may not have the abilities to whip up a slide presentation. This manual is for those people who want a systematic approach in layman’s terms.