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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

Summary


Being able to share your Prezis so easily is a brilliant feature of the software. However, if you do not take into account the simple points raised in this chapter your design is likely to fail. It probably won't engage your audience as you'd hope it would and this could mean you've wasted an awful lot of time designing it in the first place. Be realistic when you plan your online Prezi. People are extremely busy these days and normally have e-mail, web pages, Skype, and other distractions coming through their computer screens at them all day long.

If you want your Prezi's message to hit home and engage, then make it clear from the start what the user has to do, design your Prezi to look and sound great, and above all keep it short and to the point.

The next chapter looks at importing slides into your Prezi canvas. You might think it would be a sin for a Prezi master to even consider doing this, but in business it's a necessary evil that we have to face in most of our presentation...