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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations Second Edition

Table of Contents

Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations Second Edition

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Understanding the Prezi Frame of Mind

Thinking about nonlinear presentations

Linear presentations

Nonlinear presentations

The best of both worlds

Think for Prezi

Planning your Prezi

The three Prezi design steps

Step 1 – planning your Prezi

Things you need to know

Step 2 – getting the style right

Zooming

Frames

Step 3 – building in layers

A piece of cake

The bottom layer of sponge

Cream and jam

The top layer of sponge

The steps, again

Mind Mapping

Writing a list

Starting with the tool

Working efficiently with Prezi

Map your journey

Deciding the BIG picture

The science behind it

Neural networks in action

How to find your BIG picture

Common Prezi mistakes

Motion sickness

The blank canvas challenge

Going too big

Summary

2. Hands-on with Prezi Mechanics

Templates

Using templates

Getting the most from templates

Paths

Creating motion

Adding, removing, and editing

Shapes

Get creative

Editing shapes

Editing lines

Styled symbols

Highlighter

Grouping

Prezi text editor

Spell checker

The text drag-apart feature

Font colors

Bullet points and indents

Animations

3D backgrounds

A single 3D background

Multiple 3D backgrounds

The Present button

Summary

3. Consistent Branding for Business

Color schemes

Customizing Prezi graphics through CSS

Editing fonts

Editing a frame

My Content

Custom logos

Summary

4. Importing Slides into Prezi

The importance of slides

Slide-based software and businesses

Converting colleagues to Prezi

Importing slides into Prezi

The Insert PPT function

Prezify your slides

Checking the import

Positioning content

Missing content

Placing slides on to a Prezi canvas

Zooming in and out on slides

No time to Prezify

Importing your slides as PDF files

Potential problems

Low-resolution imagery

Pixilation

Text

Spell check

Animations

An alternative solution

Summary

5. Best Practices with Imagery

Raster and vector images

What are raster images?

Raster file formats

What are vector images?

Vector file formats

Benefits of Prezi

Finding great imagery

Direct upload

Prezi insert

Limitations of the Insert from web function

Using Google image search outside of Prezi

Advanced image search

Standard search

Google image search limitations

Other online sources for imagery

Deciding on the best image source

The big advantage

Time versus quality

Vectorising your imagery

Using software to vectorize

The quick way to create a vector image

Creating your vector images

Hand-drawn images

Working with images – quick tips

Prezi effects and animations

Effects

Fade-in animations

Summary

6. Using Audio

Why use sound in Prezi?

How to find sound files

Creating your own sounds

Adding audio in Prezi

Background music

Voice-over

Using the audio during presentation

Common problems

Uneven volume levels

Background music for only one path step

Music only

Music and voice

Working on mobile devices

Android

iPhone

Getting the audio into Prezi

Example uses

Less text

Translation

Narration

Creating an environment

Customers

Testimonials

Example

Summary

7. Inserting a Video

The technical bit

File size restrictions

Online or offline?

Will your Prezi be viewed online?

Will colleagues want a copy of your Prezi?

Determining your design

Playing videos

Playing along a path

Letting the user play

Positioning videos

Videos – the easy way with YouTube

Searching for the right clip

Creating your own YouTube account

Uploading your own videos to YouTube

Editing videos on YouTube

Enhancements

Quick Fixes

Filters

Special effects

Audio

Annotations

Captions

Other sources for videos

Vimeo

Using Windows Live Movie Maker or iMovie

Fun with videos in Prezi

Questions

Experts

Customer scenarios

Summary

8. Using Projectors with Prezi

Advantages of Prezi

Planning your Prezi

Beware of overlapping content

Changing the aspect ratio

Why do you need to know about ratios?

What this means for your Prezi?

Building your Prezi at the correct ratio

Sharing your Prezi

Sharing the online link

Sharing portable Prezis

Screen blackout

Interactive Prezis

How it works

How will you use it?

Summary

9. Prezi for Online Delivery

Your Prezis

Private Prezis

Sharing your Prezi

Search engines

Embedding your Prezi

Sizing your Prezi

User experience

Embedding the code

The online design approach

The three Prezi design steps

Giving instructions

Narration

Highlighting

Highlighting with frames

Highlighting with color

Timing

The BIG picture hook

Summary

10. Customized Interactions

Benefits of interactive Prezis

The Prezi API

Preparation

Web servers

The HTML editor

Basic operations

Creating menus

The base HTML file

JavaScript implementation

Coding the menu

Styling the menu

Creating submenus

Summary

11. Prezi for Tablets and Phones

The Prezi iPad application

Using the Prezi viewer

Edit mode

Show mode

Prezi for iPhone and Android

Presenting with a tablet

Using a tablet to project your Prezi

A bit of fun

Summary

12. Online Collaboration

Shared folders

Creating a folder

Managing folders

Adding viewers

Removing viewers

Deleting a folder

Cocreating Prezis

Sharing the Prezi

Avatars

Presenting remotely

The remote presentation setup

The presentation

Tips to present remotely

Video presentations

Summary

13. Case Studies

Collaboration and brainstorming

Getting visual

The perks of digital presence

Easy sharing

Marketing and web presence

Prezume

Storytelling

Easy incorporation

Sales

The pitch

In the field

Example case studies

The sales pitch

The multimedia tie-in

Visual appeal

Summary

14. Getting Prezi through the Door

PowerPoint's grip on business

The hard truth

The first hurdle

Opportunities to zoom

Be prepared

Using Theme Wizard

Frame templates

Backing it up

Using PowerPoint to introduce Prezi

Inserting PowerPoint slides

Building a PowerPoint presentation

Slide Dynamic

Offline Prezis

Online Prezis

Educating your business

Company's how-to guide

Summary

Index