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April 3, 2009

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Prezi Passes the Test

Oh man, you should see my Gmail inbox. It’s fully 50% emails to myself with drafts of Snarkmarket posts. There’s an avalanche coming. But not yet.

I did, however, want to give a shout out to Prezi. I did my first public prezi-ntation on Wednesday at Web 2.0 Expo. It was projected on a couple of mega-screens (about like this) and wow, it looked great. Really slick and entirely arresting.

The app is open to the public starting next week, and I can’t recommend it more highly.

For example: Check out Nina’s great prezi about museums and stealing. Seriously, can you even stand to imagine static slides after zooming through that thing? I thought not!

Credit where due: It has been pointed out to me that there’s a zoom-y thing in PowerPoint these days. I still prefer Prezi, though, if only because it’s so gleefully non-rectilinear. Rotating, twisting, flipping upside down: These things are hard to avoid once you get going with a prezi. I like that.

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Posted April 3, 2009 at 11:14 | Comments (5) | Permasnark
File under: Briefly Noted

Comments

Agreed - I used Prezi this week for a keynote (http://prezi.com/20023/) and it was loved and worked well. Great for going back during Q&A to particular elements of the talk.

My one pet peeve: couldn't find a way to automatically turn things by 90 degrees. Had to keep guessing.

Posted by: Nina on April 3, 2009 at 01:13 PM

Nina, oh my GOSH. That prezi is beautiful. I had such fun clicking through it just now. Hmm... I'm going to have to up my game...

Posted by: Robin on April 3, 2009 at 02:19 PM

Wow, that presentation is full of ME! And my knee! Hello, World Of Mashups. :)

I hadn't seen Prezi before -- how crazy cool. If I ever see another PowerPoint presentation, I'm going to puke. Thankfully my department at work isn't too big on them.

Posted by: Nori on April 3, 2009 at 02:30 PM

prezi preso link robin? :-)

Posted by: dan on April 4, 2009 at 04:08 PM

How wild to see you here, Nori! Yes, I needed a hip young woman to attach to sentiments like "Just as for many people their day is not complete without several visits to Facebook, I want this woman to feel like her week is not complete without a trip to a museum."

Longer version of the script here: http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2009/04/becoming-generous-thieves-notes-from.html

Posted by: Nina on April 6, 2009 at 08:00 AM
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