The way you present your ideas really matters a lot. Just like the saying, “the way you dress, the way you will be addressed”.
Your business or idea can either be the thought of the day or just a junk to your audience, it all depends on the way you present it; your presentation has to be clear and well organised. Unorganised presentations or presentations that take a lot of time usually bores the audience. Take for instance, when you go out shopping, what makes you buy that product? It’s because it is well packaged. A product that is not packaged well will not attract you.
Exactly! The same thing goes with presenting your ideas.
A good presentation should keep the audience engaged and thirsty for more of it. The presentation can either about yourself, your topic, your product or your service that you want to publicise to your audience. Whatever reason you are putting up your presentation, if it doesn’t keep your audience engaged, it just a waste of time.
One of the best ways of keeping your audience engaged is a graphic presentation. “A picture is worth a thousand words” says an adage. Not many people like to view things in the abstract word; bringing your ideas to graphic presentation help your audience visualize your idea in a better way, hence you will have their attention.
There are many software out there that you can use achieve this purpose. The most common or popular of these programs are Prezi and Microsoft Power Point. Many people thought MS Power point is the only program you can use for your presentation – they are yet to know the grandness of Prezi – whereas many users a beginning to feel the boredom in using MS Power point.
Similar to MS Power point, Prezi is a web – based presentation software that is used for presenting your ideas or marketing your products or services. It allows its user to create in a single canvas text, images, and videos for online presentation. Since it is a web – based program, it is mobile. You can display your presentation either on the pc, iPad, iPhone or Android etc.
What makes Prezi to stand out of other program is its zooming ability. In additional, it is not linear; unlike MS Power point. Prezi gives room for interconnecting ideas together and its interface is user friendly.
Your first presentation might not be as good as you expect but as you continue to familiarize yourself with you will soon become an expert. There are ways in which you can use Prezi. You can make use of it either offline or online. If you are going to make use of it offline, then you will need to download the Prezi Desktop but first, you will need a Premium Prezi account [ Online is Free ]. You can create one here: Create Prezi Account.
For you to use Prezi effectively you need to follow the below steps.
- Be prepared: The first step in setting up your Prezi presentation is preparation. Preparing ahead bring about a well-organized presentation. Endeavor to gather all the resources; images, text, pictures etc. that you are going to use for the presentation and place them in a directory you can easily access.
- If you want to import previous presentation you’ve made with MS Power point, make sure they are ready. If this is your first presentation with Prezi, you don’t need to worry much about the slide you want to import maybe they are perfect or not.
- If you want to use the online editor, go to prezi.com and register for a free account if you are yet to.
- By clicking on “Create New Prezi” a lot of preset templates will be displayed to you. You can choose any of these templates that you think it’s suitable for your presentation or you can select the “Start blank Prezi” button to start from scratch.
- There is a frame that is designed for you to enter your text. It is usually tagged “Click to add title”. Clicking on the interior part of this frame will allow you to enter your text. This might be the title of your presentation. To finalize your text, you should click on outside the frame. The transformation map will appear, you can use this to resize your text or move it anywhere. There are various styling you can give to your text but it is limited in Prezi. Take your time to experiment with the ones you like. Frames comes in different types and shapes, it can also be a visible one or invisible one. The one to use depend solely on your choice.
- Click the Frame button and drag your mouse to draw a new frame. Remember, the frame types and size is yours to decide. Use the insert button to import the image of your choice. After importing, click on the image, a transformation mark should appear which enables you to resize the image to your required size. Drag the image to the center of the frame.
- The next step is to create path for your presentation. To create path for your presentation, click on the first element you likely to zoom, in many cases that should be the title of your presentation. Next is to create path for the remaining objects you’ve added in the order in which you wish them to appear. You can easily correct any mistake i.e. any wrongly placed object by dragging it to the normal position it ought to be.
- Once you are done with path editing, click on the done button. The next thing is to preview your Prezi presentation. Click on the present button. Here you will be able to discover your mistakes and where to make necessary adjustment. When you are done with the preview, you can now download or save your Prezi project.
These are just the basics you need to know about prezi, the more you use and explore the program, the more you become an expert in it.
IMPORTANT TIPS
- You need to prepare or organize your ideas in a sensible way before putting them into your prezi project. If you don’t arrange the object according to their relations, you might end up with a bad presentation.
- Always preview your Prezi’s project before an event. You might not limit the preview to yourself only. Involve your friends to help you preview it and let them have their say about the presentation.
- Always have a portable version of your prezi presentation. There might be bad or slow network connection when trying to present your prezi. Instead of you being damned by this, you can easily access your prezi’s portable version.
- Share your presentation with others. Sharing your presentation with others does not only allow you to show what you’ve got, you also stand to learn from others (through critics? Be prepare for that too, but it will surely make you improve your skill).
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