Written on March 9th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
Based on the feedback we receive from Prezi authors, we have added new, smoother camera movements between elements when playing or showing a prezi. Check the video above. The first half was created with the version now available for the public, while the second half was recorded using the yet experimental new camera movements feature. Do you want to test the new anti seasickness effect?
Here is what you should to do to try this out:
Add an experimental extension to any prezi URL like this: http://prezi.com/************/edit/experimental/eagle
Please note that your prezis created in experimental mode will loose beta enhancements once you play them without the experimental URL.
We can’t wait to have your feedback, and experiences about this.
Written on March 4th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
We are proud to announce that Prezi won of the European Seal of e-Excellence Platinum Award 2010 today in Hannover, at the annual CeBit digital industry tradeshow. It’s a great honor to be selected for the highest rank of Europe’s prime award that promotes the marketing of digital innovation.
The European Seal of E-Excellence Award honors European ICT and digital media companies with an excellent track record in innovative marketing of digital products and services.
The annual award goes to companies foremost because of their marketing focus and because they, as a consequence, are natural job creators. This year 32 winners from 13 different countries were awarded. Hooray!
Written on February 24th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
Update2:
Sunday, 28 February, 11:50 AM CET: Scheduled server upgrade session finished successfully. Thanks for your patience,
Happy Zooming!
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Update:
Sunday, 28 February, 10:10 AM CET: Scheduled server upgrade session has just begun. It will take aprox. 2 hours. We’ll update you on the process soon.
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Dear Prezi Authors,
We’ll have to unplug Prezi.com this Sunday, February 28th from 10-12am CET (08:00-10:00am UTC), due to arrival of some exciting new cargo (so keep a close eye on the blog).
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 February 23rd, 2010, by Angelie Agarwal
Many of you only know Prezi’s Community Manager, Zoli Radnai, through tweets, support emails, and his regular postings here on the Prezi blog. However, the invitation to participate in TEDx BKK 2010 brought this behind-the-scenes guy into the limelight. The event was held on February 13, 2010 at Ruamrudee International School’s Performance Art Center in Bangkok and included a range of speakers on this year’s theme of Minds Wide Open. Zoli represented us in Thailand with a prezi about…Prezi!
Upon his return, Zoli entertained the Prezi team with a fabulous trip report about his nights (and days) in Bangkok which included: seeing 3 prezis in action at the event, giving Prezi worshops in local schools, meeting a diverse bunch of very cool people, and being graciously hosted by @RobinThailand. Zoli plans to write another post about his experiences soon, so watch out!
Check TEDxBKK’s photostream on Flickr!
Written on February 9th, 2010, by Zoli Radnai
Care for a chat with us live? If the answer is yes, you actually have a few chances around the World to meet us. This spring season Prezi people will travel around the globe and will participate or talk at the most exciting conferences and events around. Where and when you can meet us? Let us give you a quick schedule after the jump. Looking forward to meeting with you soon!
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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
