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:

1. Get inspired to do something (for me this helped a lot)
2. Start mapping out your carbon usage, see the results of our estimations below.
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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.

Prezi’s been invited to Prezinteren, a conference on presentations in Utrecht, the Netherlands this June. The Prezi themed event is hosted by one of the leaders of the Prezi community in the Netherlands, Jeanet Bathoorn who is a social media and presentations expert. There will be webinars, workshops and talks during the one day conference about how to avoid the pitfalls of presenting, how to do great webinars, and how to make better presentations with Prezi.

The highlight of the day will be the announcement of the Prezi Pro Award winner. The price goes to the prezi that we’ll find best in using the the Prezi approach and features to visualize thoughts and ideas. Submit your work and win!

We are excited to finally meet the amazing Dutch community!

The Economist is launching its inaugural event, Innovation: Fresh thinking for the ideas economy, at the University of California, Berkeley on March 23 and 24 and we’re thrilled to be a part of it! With its unique approach, this event is a marketplace for ideas focused on innovation, intelligent infrastructure, and human potential. Described as a multi-part, multimedia forum designed to fuse creativity with action, this event will expand and possibly overturn established thinking about what innovation is, where it comes from, and how to make it work.

The confirmed speaker line-up includes an impressive list of academics, authors, entrepreneurs, and executives. The featured speakers were announced using a nice Prezi on the event’s site! We are proud to be part of the event and cooperating with the conference. Check the prezi here:

And, if you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area next week, information on registration can be found here.

It’s been said that the strongest combination is a good tool in the right hands. For a visualization and storytelling tool that intends to change the way people present information, the best possible partner is TED, a global conference about technology, entertainment and design, where the world’s most influential speakers and scientists share “ideas worth spreading”.

When Peter Halacsy first showed Prezi to me, my immediate thought was TED has got to see this. TEDGlobal Conference is happening this week in Oxford UK. Yesterday, the first ever prezi in TED’s history was shown by writer and aphorism expert James Geary.

Right after Geary’s speech, curator Chris Anderson announced TED’s investment in Prezi from the stage. Chris had an amazing introduction on Prezi, which will also be used this week by another TED speaker, New America Foundation researcher and geopolitics expert, Parag Khanna.

We are very proud and excited!

Ps.:

We have just received a very kind comment from the Audio/Video crew of TEDGlobal. They are the experts behind the scene, who saw every single presentation in the history of the conference. Thank you guys!

“The AV crew at TED Global think prezi is a long awaited refreshing change.

all the best”

“Hi,

I am a partner at Sunstone Capital in Copenhagen, Denmark, and I have been following your developments over the last couple of months. I was wondering where you are located and if you are fully funded – and in that case by who. If you have time for a chat I would be happy to learn some more about your plans.

Regards
Christian”

This is how it all began. And now Sunstone Capital has invested in Prezi and Christian is on our board to speed up Prezi development. Merete (Sunstone Capital’s Lawyer/Rocker) is here to make sure all is on the up and up. We also expect her to motivate at times with a heavy dose of “Law Rock” .  (btw, we love doing music, but we’ll call the spam bot Gods on you if  you link in any embarrassing performances here)

Also, just wanted to say that we received  a lot of interest in Prezi. Still, Christian and Merete were the ones who charmed us. They won us over by their down to earth, open-minded approach. You guys rock!