Comments on: Cause & Effective: Use Prezi to clarify your message

By: Nancy Duarte

Nancy Duarte — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:10:00 +0000

This is great Teg. We love pptPlex here. It lets you move around spatially similar to Prezi. I’ll be writing a blog post soon about how to use Prezi effectively.

By: Teg Griffiths

Teg Griffiths — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:49:00 +0000

I think it is awesome that new tools arrive to change the way we want to present and share. Prezi still falls under the umbrella of another tool waiting to be used badly. I attended your webinar a few days ago and I have had a transformation in my thinking on how I create a presentation. I am still a beginner and fumbling with these new insights but I would like to thank you.
Now onto Prezi, I liked it and my first few attempts actually took me longer mainly because being kinda non-linear (you have a choice), planning was way more important. Then I came crashing down to earth, most of my presentations are for a technical product and I am struggling to make a case for prezi based on the traditional way we construct our slides. We are also very template and process centric, innovation though welcome is slow if not impossible to apply. I am instead going to focus on changing mindset first and then maybe cool tools will become more acceptable.
Have you ever reviewed pptPlex from Office Labs, it is a beta product and allows some of the features like being able to view your whole slide deck in presentation mode and zoom into details, and yes real zoom where you could focus in on one letter. It also allows you to embed real documents in a slide that behave as if they were in their native apps, only MS Office files though. So a slide could be an Excel file and you can interact with it from within the presentation, Word behaves as if you were turning pages in a book.

Thanks for the opportunity to comment and share, and thanks once again for opening my eyes.

By: Nancy Duarte

Nancy Duarte — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:17:00 +0000

I agree. Prezi can be both linear and non-linear. We’re going to do a follow-up post on Prezi soon. There’s a lot of abuse of Prezi where it creates so much distraction it masks the meaning. I recently saw a couple Prezi’s done very successfully that I’m hoping to get a copy of and showcase.

By: Martijn van Steenis

Martijn van Steenis — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:35:00 +0000

Well, it can be lineair if you want, it can be non lineair if you choose not to use a set path. Although this works best when presenting on a touchscreen, in my experience, otherwise the presentation can get pretty messy (clicking mouses etc.).

The same goes for the flashy stuff; you can choose to add more effects, a lot of panning and zooming, or keep this stuff to a minimum and let your audience focus on you and your story. I guess I like the fact that in Prezi you get a lot of freedom making these choices.

By: A Wikileaks Supporter

A Wikileaks Supporter — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:41:11 +0000

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By: Fred E. Miller

Fred E. Miller — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:18:42 +0000

What a coincidence!

I just saw a presentation last week using Prezi.

Awesome presentation tool!

Thanks!

By: Zoli Radnai

Zoli Radnai — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:40:09 +0000

Hi Paula,

Thanks for this really interesting story.

We believe that Prezi helps you to create better presentations in 3 ways:

A. With Prezi you can see the big picture and zoom into the details.

B. Prezi’s spatial layout helps the audience to remember more of your topic since for most of us it’s easier to remember objects placed spatially then in a long slideshow.

C. As a presenter, you can avoid long boring monologues (death by bullet points), and encourage audience involvement by moving across the canvas.

Chris, the path in prezi is optional. You might want to add it for a conference presentation because your time limit is linear too. For the best experience try out using prezi without a path on a touchscreen laptop.

By: Wil Keenan

Wil Keenan — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:27:29 +0000

Chris,

These examples are linear because they have a pre-designated path, but Prezi’s functionality allows a presenter to step outside of the path – zooming in and out, exploring what may be a complex system in great detail, while also keeping everything important in context – your objectives, etc.

Some people do find the speed of the zoom across large intervals to be jarring and distracting. That can be avoided, pretty easily. You will notice that I had that problem here: http://prezi.com/0aqyama4nfz2/illustrations/ – that was when I first experimented with the tool.

Thoughts?

By: Chris Craft

Chris Craft — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:07:33 +0000

Nancy,

I question the statement that prezi is “non linear”. It’s every bit as linear as PPT or Keynote. You still follow a path created by the creator. And any choices you get to make are similar to choices that can be included in PPT or Keynote.

In fact, from a cognitive perspective, I wonder if the added flashy components of prezi don’t distract from the message of the presentation.

Just wondering aloud.

Chris

By: Joby Blume

Joby Blume — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:14:42 +0000

Really interesting cause.

I can’t help but feel that the idea of Prezi is better than the reality.The controls feel a bit ‘clunky’ – it woudn’t go where I wanted it to go.

Did you try pptPlex? Similar idea, from Microsoft.