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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

Fun with video in Prezi


So now that you know how to create great looking videos and insert them into Prezi, you might be wondering how you can actually use them in your presentation. Following are just a few suggestions to get you started, but try to think beyond simply inserting video into a presentation. Try and make the use of the video fun and engaging for your audience.

Questions

In most presentations you deliver, there will be some element of quizzing the audience. This should happen throughout so that you can check the audience's understanding of your subject.

Why not use a video clip of a subject matter expert or another colleague other than yourself asking the question, pausing, and then giving a full explanation of the answer.

This will be more visually engaging and will add a really nice touch to your presentation.

Experts

In Chapter 2, Using Audio, we mentioned using subject matter experts to provide audio content for your Prezi. Of course this goes one step further by using video...