PREZI is the answer to boring Powerpoint presentations
God, how long have we been waiting for this without knowing it. Yesterday, through a post on maximumpc.com , we found PREZI, as service that will change the way you present in meetings and will teach you effortlessly how to construct a presentation in the best possible manner.
Basically speaking PREZI is a new way of presenting content to an audience, freeing you from the pressure to compress every information you have into the PowerPoint framework of squared slides. Using a border less canvas you can now place content wherever you want, connect different parts of the presentation with each other and let the audience zoom into wherever they would like to have more information on a topic. The best thing about PREZI however is the fact that information can now be showcased in a very structured format and the audience will always know where in the presentation they are currently and which topic you are talking about at any time.
With Jack Dorsey, the Founder of Twitter, on the advisory board the guys behind PREZI have built something really awesome and something that, at least for us, has the potential to transform the way information is being presented in the business world.
PDF, Flash and movies are supported an can be integrated and played within the presentation without any limits, which makes the whole thing more of a multimedia show than a simple click-click-click PowerPoint presentation. Be prepared to impress everybody at the next meeting and embarrassing the guy presenting after you, we promise he will look like straight out of the stone-age.
Basic, non-private presentation can be built for free, whereas annual subscriptions are available for everybody who wants to ad privacy to presentations or wants to be able to use the service offline with the help of a desktop tool. Prices for these subscriptions range between 39 and 119$ per year.
We think: One of the best discoveries on the web so far, and a real pearl when it comes to usability.
Link: www.prezi.com
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October 23rd, 2009
I’ve come across a similar tool the other day http://www.ahead.com, which is way cooler because you can create your own design. After seeing a few Prezis I feel I’ve seen them all. They’re still in beta though, but you get 3GB free storage.
October 28th, 2009
I think for professional marketing purposes the competing http://www.ahead.com is a much better choice as it provides more advanced layout options that allow companies to use their own corporate identity and more bespoke layouts. Personally I feel that when I’ve seen one Prezi I’ve seen them all.