We were so excited to hear that Jonathan Chan (left in photo) won $50,000 after using Prezi to submit his idea to a contest! Jonathan graduated in the spring of 2010, working in financial services in New York, and entered a Facebook-based contest about how to raise personal savings in the US. A month later he found out that he won the grand prize. He was interviewed live by CNBC, and featured in the New York Times. This is his story. Congrats, Jonathan!
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As you might have seen the news, Japan had the largest earthquake ever recorded in its history just one day after Peter’s visit (and blog post below). Our hearts are with our Japanese friends in these devastating hours. We send our best wishes to anyone hurt by the earthquake and the tsunami. To learn how to give a helping hand to Japan, please follow the links below:
Help Japan
Japan Helpline
How to help Japan
How to help Japanese earthquake victims
Facebook Click Helps Dogs Rescue Trapped Quake Victims
Having lived in Asia myself, it’s really nice to see that Prezi has started to grow in Korea and Japan. I felt really impressed with the energy and all the creative use of Prezi.
Prezi for Dummies – the Korean translation of last year’s original US release – was brought to life with the help of Jihoon Roh (upper left). He’s the guy that helped us to get our first Korean font set. Prezi lecturer Do-won Lee (upper right) wrote another book for the Korean market which introduces Prezi’s best practices and a manual. Dowon also created a nice prezi introducing his book. Check out Daum, Facebook or Naver to join the Korean buzz, these community sites for more info.
We also had a great Prezi Night Tokyo party where the first Japanese Prezi book was introduced.
The tickets for the party sold out in a few hours! You can keep up with Japanese community on both facebook and twitter.
We’d like to say thanks to everyone who participated and voted in the Prezi+iPad=”?” contest. It was a very close race. Drum roll, please. With over 900 votes, the winner is 32-year-old Philadelphia middle school History teacher, Will Gibbs. Congratulations Will – we hope you enjoy your new iPad.
Will has spent the past few years incorporating both technology and experiential teaching practices into his classroom. His wife, Alice, works in reforming education at Teach for America. Their son, George is 7 month old. Will’s prezi got 939 votes in a great race with other finalists. During the submission period, we received 642 prezis–narrowed down to 7 finalists by the jury. We’d like to thank the Prezi founders Peter Halacsy, Adam Somlai-Fischer, Peter Arvai and TED curator Chris Anderson for their hard work judging the prezis.
It was an amazing journey to organize our first contest. If you’ve missed this one, just keep in touch as we have plans to run more.
You have provided great feedback on the Prezi for the iPad app as well–thank you! Based on your feedback, we have decided to change the name of the app to Prezi Viewer. We believe the new name better reflects the features of this version of the app. You’ll see this name change reflected in the AppStore within the next few weeks.
We’d like to say thanks to everyone who spent time creating and submitting a prezi to the iPad contest page. Voting is still open until February 28. 11:59 PST (8:59 CET March 1). So if you haven’t voted yet, don’t miss your chance to take part in selecting the contest winner–who will get an iPad from Prezi!
In the meantime, we would like to share some awesome contest submissions. We couldn’t showcase all the entries here, so we couldn’t resist giving publicity to the most notable ones. You can browse them in different categories after the jump. Congratulations to all who entered!
The Prezi for the iPad contest just reached a very exciting phase: our jury of Prezi founders and TED curator Chris Anderson selected the finalists and now it’s time for you to vote for the winner! The jury had a tough time choosing the best prezis out of more than 600 submissions. For the fifth finalist position they had a 3-way tie so they decided to choose 7 instead of 5 finalists for community vote.
The top 7 are awesome, we think you’ll also have a tough time picking just one winner! Check them all out and have your say on the contest page before 00:00 PST (9:00 CET) February 28. The winner will be announced on March 1. (You can check the finalists here on the blog too before voting on the contest page – after the break).
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As a result of poverty, malnutrition, intra-family marriage, and Saddam Hussein’s gas attacks in the late 80’s there are more than 4000 kids diagnosed with congenital heart disease in Iraq. Preemptive Love Coalition (PLC) a local non-profit provides lifesaving heart surgeries to Iraqi children. Now they use Prezi to find partners worldwide. We’ve asked Press Secretary Matt Willingham to introduce their work and how they use Prezi to promote the organization.
Prezi for the iPad version 1.0.2 fixes login issues over 3G networks and addresses overall memory problems that caused crashing in some cases. The upgrade is now available from the Apple App Store. Thanks for your feedback. Please continue sharing your experiences with Prezi, enter our contest and win an iPad!
Let’s celebrate this holiday season with some long awaited Prezi features!
Finally you can customize Prezi themes! Available from the bubble menu, Color Wizard allows to customize Prezi theme colors, and select a font set of choice from the wizard’s font library. The wizard has a smart color selector system that suggests nice colors for different theme elements based on your initial selections. Alternatively, you can also create branded Prezi themes by adding your exact company colors to the wizard.
Paying users (Pro, EduPro and Enjoy, EduEnjoy) can even add their logo to their custom theme.
Related feature: design professionals can now create branded Prezi themes for free. The CSS code of prezi themes is now available for customizing in a standalone editor.
Color Wizard and the CSS editor are accessible with all license types.
Drag and drop images, videos and PDF documents directly to PreziDesktop from your computer! The color wizard and CSS editing is also available in this update of the offline editor.
Learn more about these new features from our related manual articles:
