Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations电子书

Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

Table of Contents

Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

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. Best Practices with Imagery

Raster and vector images

What are raster images?

Raster file formats

What are vector images?

Vector file formats

What are the benefits of Prezi?

Where can you find great imagery?

Prezi Insert from web

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

Bang for your buck

The big advantage

Time versus quality

The best of both worlds

Vectorising your imagery

The quick way

Creating your own flavor

Grab a pen

Working with images — quick tips

Summary

2. Using Audio

Why use sound in Prezi?

Where's the Insert Audio button?

How is audio inserted?

Where to get sound files from?

Creating your own sounds

Audio options

Option 1 — looping the background music

What you need for Option 1?

Creating a movie

Converting to .swf

The Prezi bit

Testing the audio

Sharing your Prezi

Option 2 — different sounds at path points

What you need for Option 2?

Creating a movie

Inserting into Prezi

Hiding sound behind content (optional)

Being clever with audio

Translation

Narration

Creating an environment

Customers

Summary

3. 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?

Ask the question

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 in YouTube

Enhancements

Quick Fixes

Effects

Audio

Annotations

Captions

Some businesses don't like YouTube

Windows Live Movie Maker

The Home menu

Animations menu

The Visual Effects menu

The Edit menu

Inserting WLMM videos into Prezi

Benefits of Windows Live Movie Maker

Fun with video in Prezi

Questions

Experts

Customer scenarios

Summary

4. Approaching Your Prezi Design

A change of approach

A prison without walls

No end in sight

Linear presentations

Non-linear presentations

The best of both worlds

Ask the question

Death by Prezi

Think for Prezi

Motion sickness

Master the approach

The three Prezi design steps

Step 1 — Plan your Prezi

Things you need to know

Mind Mapping

Why not just write a list?

How to do it?

Why it works well with Prezi?

Map your journey

Step 2 — Get the flavor right

What's wrong with this picture?

Frame it right

Themes

Step 3 — Building in layers

Piece of cake

Bottom layer of sponge

Cream and Jam

Top layer of sponge

The steps, again

Presenting your BIG picture

The science behind it

Neural networks in action

How to find your BIG picture

Summary

5. Projecting Your Prezi

Planning your Prezi

A common mistake

The simple solution

Master's secret shortcut

Why you need to know about ratios?

What this means for your Prezi

Build your Prezi at the 4:3 ratio

Beware the double-click!

Sharing your Prezi

Interactive Prezis

How it works

How will you use it

Summary

6. Prezis for Online Delivery

Your Prezis

Private Prezis

Search engines

Share this Prezi

Viewing

Editing

Embedding your Prezi

Prezi size

User experience

Embed code

The online design approach

The three Prezi design steps

Give instructions

Embedded Prezis

Narration

Highlighting

Highlighting with frames

Highlighting with color

Timing

The BIG Picture hook

Summary

7. Importing Slides into Prezi

Why oh why!

A bit of history

Slides are here to stay!

Slides are useful

Another reason why

Importing slides into Prezi

The Insert PPT function

Prezify your slides

Positioning content

Placement and frames

Zooming

No time to Prezify

Importing your slides as PDF

Things to look out for

Imagery

Zoom

Text

Spell check

Animations

The solution

Summary

8. Prezi for iPad and Android

The Prezi iPad app

Using Prezi viewer

Edit mode

Show mode

Prezi viewer tips

YouTube

Sound

Images

Prezi for Android

Using Prezi with Android

Stay connected

Images

Editing

Sound files

YouTube

iPad and Android comparison

When to present with a tablet

Projector + tablet = wow!

A bit of fun

Summary

9. Mastering the Newer Prezi Features

Templates

The templates

Getting the most from templates

Paths

Assets

Branding

Shapes

Get creative

Editing shapes

Editing lines

Highlighter

Pencil

Drawings and diagrams

Prezi text editor

Spellchecker

Text drag-apart

Font colors

Bullet points and indents

The plus (+) button

Scaling layouts

Grouping and moving

Using a frame

The Shift key

The play button

Summary

10. Prezi Meeting

Setting up a Prezi meeting

Sending invites

Invite to an online presentation

Invite to edit

The invitation e-mail

Presenting online

Audio

Where have they gone?

Timings

Editing online

Instructions

Practice area

Chat area

Personal space

Keeping control

Removing access

Summary

11. Getting Prezi through the Door

PowerPoint's grip on business

The hard truth

The first hurdle

Opportunities to zoom

Be prepared

Using the 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