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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

Using PowerPoint to introduce Prezi


One of the best ways to win your colleagues over with Prezi is to fly under the radar and apply a very subtle approach. They'll all be used to seeing PowerPoint slides, so why not let them think that's what they're looking at and then WHAM! Hit them with a nice bit of Prezi zooming.

There's a couple of ways in which you can do this so we'll start with the simplest one first. Rest assured though that if you try this trick you are bound to have people asking about it after your presentation, and it's that level of curiosity that we really need to get us started.

Inserting PowerPoint slides

In Chapter 7, Importing Slides into Prezi, we saw how to insert PowerPoint slides into Prezi. A part of that chapter advised you to spread the slides out so they aren't as linear.

Slides being Prezified

If you're Prezifying some PowerPoint slides then we still recommend you spread the slides out. However, if you're trying to give Prezi a low profile so that it subtly grabs...