Written on February 3rd, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
Marketing and presentation expert and author of Advanced Presentations by Design Dr. Andrew Abela developed a very interesting approach to design and deliver presentations. He calls it the Extreme Presentation method, and it’s a way to develop effective communication of complex information to a well targeted audience.
He differentiates two major types of presentations: “If you’re trying to present a big idea, to wow people, or to entertain them, then you should deliver a Ballroom style presentation: projecting great visuals, with few words. But if you’re trying to persuade people to do something: buy, approve, invest, change behavior, etc., then you need to deliver a Conference Room style presentation: lots of details on printed slides which pass the squint test”
We are very proud to learn that Dr. Abela believes that Prezi is one technology that can actually bridge the gap between the two different kinds of presentations. In his recent blogpost he uses demo prezis to give examples of how to create great presentations of each kind then concludes: “(Prezi)…is one of the best communication technologies to come along in a very long time”
Click this link to read Dr. Abela’s inspiring post on how to create the most effective presentations – with Prezi.
Tags: tips&tricks
Written on February 1st, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
TEDx conferences are independently organized TED events following the original philosophy of introducing interesting speakers and ideas worth spreading. Prezi is often used as an optional presentation tool at these conferences. Giorgio Ungania, organizer of TEDX Dubai have now decided to go even further. He wants to create the first TEDx where every speaker will have to utilize Prezi as a presentation tool. They will build their own TEDx Prezi style, and to boost the process, create a little academy where speakers will be trained on how to use Prezi.
On the top of that Giorgio plans to make every TEDxDubai prezi available for sharing & remixing, with our new Reuse feature, and on the TEDx Dubai website they will post the video recording of the talks together with the relevant Prezi. Becoming excited about all this, we asked Giorgio about hows and whys after the jump.
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Written on January 30th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
Dear Pezi Authors,
We’ll have to unplug Prezi.com this Sunday, January 31st from 10-11am CET (08:00-9:00am UTC), due to maintenance.
During the process, our online services will be unavailable. This means:
1. You won’t be able to reach Prezi.com, the online editor,
2. You can’t login or reach your online Prezis from PreziDesktop (offline editor available for Pro users).
3. You can still edit, and export presentations with PreziDesktop in offline mode (since the software is not necessarily connected to the internet).
4. Of course you can even show your Prezis during downtime, if you have previously downloaded them to your computer.
We will try to make this as painless as possible. Our most effective weapon to achieve this goal is transparency and support.
For this reason, we welcome your comments on @prezisupport on Twitter while our data center is offline. Once the upgrade has finished, we will notify you immediately on the blog and on Twitter as well.
Tags: engineering
Written on January 28th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
This year we had the chance to cooperate with the World Economic Forum’s Ideas Lab, where major universities and Forum attendees present their highly engaging topics in a short, pecha kucha format. Five speakers from this year’s lineup decided to use Prezi to visualize their thoughts and ideas.
Today is the second day of the event and videos have just started to drop on the website of the Lab. We are very proud to introduce the prezi of MIT professor and director of the World Wide Web Consortium first, the guy who is best known and frequently mentioned in every school and university across the globe for inventing the World Wide Web protocol. Please watch Sir Tim Berners-Lee showing his prezi yesterday in Davos!
What is a pecha kucha presentation?
Pecha pucha is a presentation format, where a presenter shows 20 images for 20 seconds apiece, for a total time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds. The name is Japanese and means chit-chat. The first “pecha kucha night” was organized in Tokyo for young designers to generate conversation and cooperation.
Prezi has a dedicated pecha kucha mode, you can try now. Just go to “show mode” press and hold the right arrow in the navigation bar and you will see an option layer sliding out. Here you can set your prezi to autoplay in every 2, 10 or 20 seconds. Pecha kucha, go!
Tags: Your prezis
Written on January 26th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
In our series of introducing inspirational prezi authors and their works, we have a very interesting person for you to meet today. Michel Bauwens is founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He has been an analyst for the United States Information Agency, and knowledge manager for British Petroleum (where he created one of the first virtual information centers) as well. Michel used Prezi for his TEDxBrussels talk this Fall and kindly answered our questions after the conference. We wanted to know his points on how to create a good prezi, and what are the most important considerations when speaking in front of an audience.
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Tags: Your prezis
Written on January 25th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons (the organization that provides free copyright consistent licenses for people to share and build upon the work of others) used Prezi for his talk at TEDxDubai a few weeks ago. When we reached out for him to ask about his experiences and thoughts on Prezi’s new Reuse feature, he immediately offered all his prezis for our community to reuse. Read on to learn what Joi thinks about creating a good presentation with Prezi, and feel free to reuse his prezis stored in our Library!
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Tags: Your prezis
Written on January 24th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
Less menus, more options. Easier text editing, upgraded Transformation Zebra and YouTube integration: the new editor has half the menus of its predecessor, while it has more features and a welcome video as a bonus.
See the complete feature list and changes after the jump. For detailed feature introduction, see the updated Prezi Manual or watch a prezi of all the changes complete with keyboard shortcuts!
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Tags: new feature
Written on January 24th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
Besides the new editor, we introduce three additional features today:
- Educational license: long-awaited feature requested by students and educators.
- Prezi Reuse: share a copy of your prezis with others to use as a template.
- New learn center: multimedia lessons and a community space to share your thoughts.
See how these shiny new things work after the jump!
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Tags: new feature
Written on January 21st, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
Update: server upgrade finished.
Update: Hello Prezi People,
Server upgrade has begun on schedule. New stuff now loading through the pipes. Check back in 2 hours for more. We’ll update you on the process.
Dear Pezi Authors,
We’ll have to unplug Prezi.com this Sunday morning from 10-12 AM CET (08:00-10:00 UTC), due to upgrades. The goal of the process is to prepare our system for some major new stuff.
During the process, our online services will be unavailable. This means:
1. You won’t be able to reach Prezi.com, the online editor,
2. You can’t login or reach your online Prezis from PreziDesktop (offline editor available for Pro users).
3. You can still edit, and export presentations with PreziDesktop in offline mode (since the software is not necessarily connected to the internet).
4. Of course you can even show your Prezis during downtime, if you have previously downloaded them to your computer.
We will try to make this as painless as possible. Our most effective weapon to achieve this goal is transparency and support.
For this reason, we welcome your comments on @prezisupport on Twitter while our data center is offline. Once the upgrade has finished, we will notify you immediately on the blog and on Twitter as well.
Tags: engineering
Written on January 4th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
The guys over at TED.com just published another great prezi from TEDGlobal conference organized back in July 2009 in Oxford. We are very happy to introduce the video recording and embedded prezi of writer and aphorism expert James Geary, who used our tool to visualize his interesting topic about the influence of metaphors on our thinking. James also kindly accepted our request to share his thoughts about Prezi and give some advices on how to deliver a successful presentation.
Check the interview and James’ embedded prezi after the jump!
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Tags: Your prezis
