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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

By : Russell Anderson-Williams
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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

The online design approach


Designing a Prezi for online delivery needs a very different approach than designing for a face to face presentation. Because they will be viewing your Prezi online, and in their own time, you should assume their attention span will be very limited. Most people viewing content online only have about eight seconds before they become uninterested and move on to something else.

You should also assume that people might not know what Prezi is or how it works. This could send the technophobes in your office running straightaway.

In the rest of this chapter, we'll look at how to design your online Prezi with these things in mind.

The three Prezi design steps

The three design steps you learned about in Chapter 4, Approaching Your Prezi Design still apply:

  1. Plan your Prezi.

  2. Get the flavor right.

  3. Build in layers.

In step 1, you need to make sure that you don't get too carried away with your ideas and stick to a very simple approach. No one is going to click through a Prezi that...