Prezi is Here. Throw Away your PowerPoint
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Let's just say it, right now, PowerPoint is old school. After using Prezi.com, I can see that I've been tied to a metaphor that is merely a transliteration of slide projectors.
I've been around long enough to remember when companies had a graphic arts department that would create the graphics with computers, then have them printed onto slides. Sales staff and executive would travel around with a Kodak Carousel of their presentations.
The next step was the ground-breaking software of Harvard Graphics, which provided an all-in-one solution. It was so popular that people used to sling around "Harvard Graphics" just as frequently as today when I hear "PowerPoint" to mean anything that is remotely related to a business presentation.
Prezi is a mix of mind-mapping on an infinite canvas, completely replacing the card stack styling of traditional presentations. The display swoops from one spot to another, visualizing your thoughts as a trail that never breaks. After seeing and working with Prezi, a slide presentation feels creaky and antiquated.
Prezi is also emblematic of a new wave of productivity tools (e.g., Yuuguu.com) which is agnostic to the desktop operating system. It doesn't matter if you have the latest MacBook Pro, a Dell Mini 9 running Ubuntu, or a Windows white-box. Prezi is created on-line, and then it can be hosted on Prezi, or downloaded for off-line viewing.
Prezi is highly recommended, especially for those that have been loyal to Slideology. They offer off-line viewers which are compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Technorati Tags: prezi.com, slideology
Let's just say it, right now, PowerPoint is old school. After using Prezi.com, I can see that I've been tied to a metaphor that is merely a transliteration of slide projectors. I've been around long enough to remember when companies had a graphic arts department that would create the graphics with computers, then have them printed onto slides. Sales staff and executive would travel around with a Kodak Carousel of their presentations.
The next step was the ground-breaking software of Harvard Graphics, which provided an all-in-one solution. It was so popular that people used to sling around "Harvard Graphics" just as frequently as today when I hear "PowerPoint" to mean anything that is remotely related to a business presentation.
Prezi is a mix of mind-mapping on an infinite canvas, completely replacing the card stack styling of traditional presentations. The display swoops from one spot to another, visualizing your thoughts as a trail that never breaks. After seeing and working with Prezi, a slide presentation feels creaky and antiquated.
Prezi is also emblematic of a new wave of productivity tools (e.g., Yuuguu.com) which is agnostic to the desktop operating system. It doesn't matter if you have the latest MacBook Pro, a Dell Mini 9 running Ubuntu, or a Windows white-box. Prezi is created on-line, and then it can be hosted on Prezi, or downloaded for off-line viewing.
Prezi is highly recommended, especially for those that have been loyal to Slideology. They offer off-line viewers which are compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Technorati Tags: prezi.com, slideology
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