{"id":746,"date":"2010-09-06T17:06:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T16:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2010-09-06T17:06:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T16:06:15","slug":"prezi-for-presentations-perhaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/prezi-for-presentations-perhaps\/","title":{"rendered":"prezi for presentations? Perhaps"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve heard a lot of fuss and hype around some presentation software called prezi<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0It’s an alternative to Keynote and Powerpoint, in that it’s designed to create the visual aids (aka a slideshow) that goes with your presentation. \u00c2\u00a0So far so good – the more packages there are in the market the better.<\/p>\n

Always wanting to know more (yes, I know, I’m behind the curve here, but I’ve been busy – so sue me! :) ) I signed up for the free version to see how it shapes up. \u00c2\u00a0Hmmmm.<\/p>\n

First things first, it looks slick – the demo presentations are well done and (to my surprise, sorry!) pretty interesting. The price isn’t bad, either. \u00c2\u00a0If you can cope with your presentations being online (only) the free version seems to work nicely and I didn’t have any problems experimenting. \u00c2\u00a0It imports PDFs and so on very comfortably too, so all in all a nice package.<\/p>\n

But so what?<\/p>\n

Well, for me, so…. so very little to be honest.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, I loved the ‘flying’ and ‘zooming’ effect that was the basis of the demo presentations I watched (such as here<\/a>, for example). \u00c2\u00a0Also, I kind of like the way it forces you to work – planning things by jotting notes almost, rather than the rigidity of planning-by-Powerpoint. \u00c2\u00a0The thing is, as I watched the second demo, I got a sense of deja vu. \u00c2\u00a0And again with the third… in fact they all looked disappointingly like the training demo I’d watched.<\/p>\n

Essentially, I’m gradually concluding that this is because prezi is, essentially, a one trick pony. \u00c2\u00a0At it’s heart it’s a kind of combined mindmap and flow-diagramme, with pictures\/text stuck on it, creating narrative, which is great, but that’s all it is. \u00c2\u00a0The zooming out to see where you are in the bigger picture is nice, but it gets old really quickly – for me at least. \u00c2\u00a0(I imagine for anyone who suffers from travel sickness it’ll get old REALLY<\/strong> fast!)<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s just me – has anyone used it “for real”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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