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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

By : Russell Anderson-Williams
Book Image

Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

By: Russell Anderson-Williams

Overview of this book

Prezi is a tool for delivering presentations in a linear or non-linear format. This cloud-based software enables users to structure presentations on an infinite canvass in a way that is much more engaging and visually stimulating to the audience. "Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations" is a must read for anyone already using Prezi who wants to take their presentations to the next level. It covers all of the technical elements of the software, whilst also looking at the practicalities of using Prezi in a business environment. This book covers all the technical elements of Prezi and also teaches the reader how to think for Prezi, and approach their design in the best way. This is an essential resource for people who want to use Prezi seriously. As well as covering best practices for inserting imagery, sound, and video, this book also covers topics for business users like collaborating and sharing Prezis online, using Prezi at a meeting to brain storm with overseas colleagues, and how to 'Prezify' PowerPoint or Keynote slides. "Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations" will escalate you from Prezi user to master with ease.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

A common mistake


Before we go into any real detail on the subject of projectors, it's important that we explain a simple concept that most of us struggle with initially in Prezi. Thankfully there's also a simple solution as well, so read on.

Let us imagine we've just designed the Prezi as shown in the preceding screenshot. We want to introduce our audience to the three characters one at a time. We've linked the frames, containing each character with a path and we want each one to fill the screen that were projecting onto.

What do you think will happen when we go into show mode and click through the paths? Let's take a look and see:

  1. Path point 1 – What's that orange blob on the right?

  2. Path point 2 - Looks okay but there's a lot of empty space above and below the frame.

  3. Path point 3 – Who's arm is that in my view?

You can see in the preceding screenshot that as the paths move to each frame we can see parts of the other frames around them. Path point 3 is the best example as you can see the arm...