Written on September 2nd, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
San Francisco government encourages local software developer groups to create mobile applications that make city life better. People build apps that help to track down local public transport, report broken city lights, or find the best playgrounds around. Adobe recently hosted
sf.govfresh, an event where these companies introduced their products. The evening was keynoted by Chris Vein, CIO of City and County of San Francisco, and he used Prezi to visualize his thoughts.
After his talk we asked Chris how Prezi helped him to explain his thoughts. He said “what Prezi did for me was that it forced me to think about what my message was, not all of the explanation and detail that supports what I wanted to say, but more about what is the purpose, what is the reason of this talk and how can I move around the canvas and tell a better story.”
Chris’ prezi supported these principals perfectly thanks to
Alimat, a collaborative design/content team. They used zooming and scaling to visualize Chris’ arguments and relations among different thoughts. If you are interested in how you can stay focused and create more convincing presentations, get inspired by our
learn page.
Tags: Your prezis
Written on August 17th, 2010, by Peter Arvai
Shame on us. It took nearly a year to get this project on the road but now we’re ready. Here is what we learned:
- Get inspired to do something (for me this helped a lot)
- Start mapping out your carbon usage, see the results of our estimations below.
- Figure out some criteria for the offset project that you like. We found many projects that we are skeptical of but we agreed on 2 criteria: a) ability to easily contact the people who were running the project b) the project should impact social change, economic development and CO2 offsetting at the same time
- Based on our criteria we found this stove project. It claims that: a) families who get a stove gets dramatically improved health b) local entrepreneurs and the families receiving the stoves are involved and c) each stove lasts for about 10 year and saves about 2-3 tons of CO2 / year & stove
- From here on doing the math is easy: 150/(2.5*10)= 6 stoves = USD 1 350
If you have experience of your own, please share below. This year is thought to become the warmest year since we stared measuring. We need to become smart at this.
Tags: news
Written on July 13th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
Poor presentations are like the undead. They paralyze the audience, make them fell asleep while the rubbish presenter speaks sotto voce on stage reading the speach word-for-stumbling-word. There’s no presentation tool that can make a zombie speaker stand out, and a poor idea shine, but if you need a little “oomph” to make your good presentation great Prezi can make the change. These words have been written by Denna Jones, a writer, designer and consultant in a guest post (read part 1, part 2 here) for communications expert Ian Griffin’s blog. Denna points out that instead of creating a linear line of slides, Prezi allows the speaker to encourage a dialoge, and visualize ideas as if you were drawing a mind map for your audience.
We have become excited about the piece and asked Denna to share her thoughts about how to become a better presenter with Prezi and never again be a dead man walking on stage.
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Tags: Your prezis
Written on June 25th, 2010, by Angelie Agarwal
Dear Prezi Authors,
We’re making important updates to prezi.com! Therefore, we’ll have to unplug prezi.com this Saturday and Sunday, June 26 – June 27 from 10-11am CET (08:00-9:00am GMT) for 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.
Once the scheduled downtime is over, we will notify you immediately on the blog and via Twitter.
Written on June 2nd, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
It all started with a tweet last summer. Hedwyg van Groenendaal — a web education center owner and mother of three — got the message and soon started to build her first prezi.
With years of authoring and teaching experience of web design and different titles such as (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Dreamweaver, Flash, ActionScript, PHP, SEO) Hedwyg decided to write a guide, sharing her impressions and suggestions about how to create better presentations with Prezi. Beyond the introduction, we asked how she thinks a good prezi should be made.
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Written on May 20th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
Google Wave is a love child of chat rooms, email accounts and live collaboration tools. The formerly invitation based platform just went live at this year’s Google I/O conference, Google’s largest development event of the year in San Francisco. This year two Prezi developers Balint and Akos were invited to introduce a concept that allows Wave users to embed prezis and collaborate live.
In Wave you can embed different applications to work with. These are called gadgets. For Google I/O Prezi developed a gadget concept for Wave, which allows small groups to show prezis to each other and even edit live. Our developer, Balint introduces the Prezi Wave gadget for the reporter of The Next Web Apps. Please note that this is a demonstration of a concept right now. There’s no timeline for when or even if this will be available.
Tags: engineering, news
Written on May 5th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
Prezi team and friends rocked Moloko bar Budapest last week, celebrating our first birthday. Yes, it’s been a year ago in late April since Prezi went live after months of closed beta tests and developing. And what an amazing first year we had! We have closed successful investment rounds, opened our office in San Francisco, and cooperated with the most amazing events and speakers worldwide.
Unfortunately most of you could not attend to the party, so we wanted to say thank you to everyone from Vancouver to Tokyo and back for your continuous support and feedback!
Happy zooming! (More photos after the jump)
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Written on May 3rd, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
Celebrating their community, Discovery Education Network has an amazing week of special surprises and events every year during the teacher appreciation week. We are proud to be involved in the celebrations this year, by providing all STAR Discovery educators a free Prezi EDU Pro account, and hosting a webinar on Monday May 3. at 5 pm ET (2 am UTC) about how to create better presentations with Prezi.
We wish a happy-happy teacher appreciation week and happy zooming to the Discovery Education Network community and all the teachers and educators around the world!
Written on April 29th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
A few weeks ago we introduced a contest. We asked our community to look for a secretly implemented new feature in the editor and offered a Pro account and blog introduction to the one who sends in the right description first. The winner is Tijmen Bak, a Dutch high-tech company consultant, and the feature to find was “hidden frame” which allows you to group elements in Edit mode and make those brackets invisible in Show mode.
Tijmen uses Prezi whenever he can for live presentations, on websites and internal reports for more than a year. In his company each employee has a Prezi account. We asked him how they use Prezi as a tool of business.
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Tags: contest, Your prezis
