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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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!

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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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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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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Last week at LeWeb – one of Europe’s most important internet conference organised annually in Paris – MySpace COO Mike Jones used Prezi for his keynote. News ran fast on Twitter, it seemed like everybody was chatting about Mike’s presentation, and the tool he used. Scrolling through the tweets we learned that the prezi was actually forged by Sean Percival, who among many things works as a media consultant for MySpace. Sean kindly accepted our request to share his experiences with Prezi. His most important message to our authors is: “don’t be afraid of open spaces, learn to tell your story through movement and images, not just text!”

Click below for the interview!
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The title above is not only for this post. It’s been made up from a tagcloud that contains the top 100 keywords extracted from public prezi’s titles and description. Here it is:

So this means these are the most common words you have used to handle your projects so far, which shows quite clearly the topics you are most interested in as well. These are education, social media and technology.

We are happy to see that our developments are going to the directions of your interest: your Prezi stories can reach a lot of people with embed, and you can spread the project on the social web as well. Learning and teaching is highly effective with Prezi, since you have everything at your fingertips, can show the big picture and zoom into the details easily. Our spatial layout helps the audience to remember more of the topic, and encourages dialog. And finally advanced technology, our common passion for new innovations that shape the way we live and interact with each other is one of the core values that drive us making Prezi even better.