We’ve been doing lots of Prezi work with clients old and new over the past 3 years. They’ve been asking us to- Help them convert PowerPoint presentations into Prezi Create complex project plans, presentations and pitches Add style and flair to existing work Train their people to create and use presentations with this brilliant tool…
Prezi gets better and better everyday. Here’s a short video on how you can add Flash images and movies to Prezi to get those great results. The basic rules- Keep the movies short and simple Loop them if you want them to keep playing as you speak Link them with a path to help you…
Here’s an example Prezi presentation I made today to a networking group- The Vine, at Mercer, a professional services firm in London, UK. I created a set of simple slides to talk to, with simple graphics and a super logical layout. No frills and not too many tricks. Comments welcome. Personal Impact- The Vine at…
I was talking to a client the other day about Prezi, she’s an experienced PowerPoint presenter, and her take on the Prezis she’s seen was, and I quote- ‘It literally makes me sick. All that panning and zooming…’ I don’t think she meant ‘literally’ sick, but it’s the most common response I get when I…
Prezi Explained 2.0 on Prezi Having talked a lot recently about the strengths and weaknesses of Prezi, I thought it was about time I ‘showed and told’. So here’s a Prezi presentation of mine, to give you an overview of how you can use the tool to best advantage. You can click through it like…
I’ve been pretty balanced about Prezi in previous articles. ‘What does Prezi do for a poor speech?’ then ‘Prezi- Is it any good?’ and also a sort of sales pitch for its strengths in ‘Prezi vs. PowerPoint‘. Now Prezi version 3.79 is a very good piece of software. In skilled hands it is a brilliant…
Some research done in Germany earlier this year gives some surprising insight into the best ways of using PowerPoint for business presentations. Business presentations with poor visuals -whatever the ‘religion’ (Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Prezi)- is better read by the audience, than talked over by the presenter. Yup. Audiences retain more from a bad presentation accompanied by…
Here it is. In all of the detail about slide design, visual and verbal channels, psychology, and blah, blah, blah; I’ve finally found the image that cuts through all the crap. This is how every one of us should use PowerPoint- You’ve got an audience who are interested. You’ve got some complex terrain to get…
In developing our skills as presenters, it’s important to understand that we are using 2 ‘channels’ of information in our attempts to make the points we want to make- The visual elements of our presentation- which tend to dominate our audience’s perception of the moment, and The verbal elements to support to the visual impressions…