interactive. social ... interested? Try prezi.com This video explains. Today I want to talk

about a champion tool that we use all the time at Tim Levy Associates for all of our

presentation materials. It's called Prezi and I believe it's the next iteration, if

you will, in speaker's board and information communication after PowerPoint. PowerPoint

is very linear, very limited and Prezi, which is based on the idea of an infinite canvas,

seems to be the new and next generation. In addition to being an infinite canvas, which

means you can zoom in and out infinitely, also it's connected to social networks, which

is wildly helpful. It turns out I'm not the only person who thinks this way this graphic

tells the story. This shows you that over the course of a couple of years they got to

26 million registered users who have done more than 500 million Prezi presentations

online and it became particularly famous when it was used in some of the more successful

Ted Talks. The other thing about it is of course it's

free. Just to use it, as long as you share your presentations, it's free to use and then

connected, as I said, via social network.

Let's have a look at some actual examples and to do that I'm going to log in and we'll

show you a couple of our presentations, which are all available when we're online. I do

quite a lot of speaking presentations in the course of any one year. Let's have a little

look at this one, the more recent ones, which is this one here called the Fast Book Handbook.

This is a presentation workshop I've given a number of times and what you can see here

as I go to full screen is it starts off here at sort of a first screen and if I just hit the arrow keys, it's going to start to

move through. Immediately it's zoomed in, as I said pretty much infinite zoom in and

zoom out, allowing me in this case to start off with an exercise that I take the audience

through, then zooming out to a table of contents in this case, rotating, spinning. That's the

great thing about this, the amazing sense of movement that you get. But what's really

cool about this as well is that it's not just based on a linear sequence of events like

PowerPoint, so if I want to just move around with my mouse or if I want to just jump into

a particular slide, I can. Zoom out, zoom around. Hang on I've got the wrong orientation,

click on that. Hang on I want to go really close on that. All of these things are possible.

What I really like about working with Prezi is it allows you to establish a sort of a

visual paradigm. In this case the visual paradigm is using a clothes peg in front of a board

and obviously then we've designed screens and gone in and out the screenshots and all

sorts of things like that. Most people ask me where do I find these visual paradigms.

I need to flick over to another website that I use for that, which is a graphic website

I use really quite a lot called 123RF and we have a separate video on that if you'd

like to find out more. For today, what I'm going to do is just log in so I can get to

my account and see if I can have a look at one of my collections that I have here. I

have these, they call them "like boxes" of Prezi backgrounds that I've sort of hunted

down and found over the course of time and you can see there's lots of visual paradigms

here if you don't want to sort of create one on your own. Occasionally we actually setup

photography and do that.

For example this one over here is abstract graph of cubes in interior, admittedly a pretty

tricky keyword to have to think of to type into the search box here at 123RF but when

you do, it brings out that one result and once you've got to that result, down here

in the bottom it starts to show you similar images that have other visual paradigms. It

gives you sort of a basis to start from with 123RF and then if we go back to Blurb you'll

actually see that one of my Prezis was based on this. I think this is one on creativity.

Okay looks like I can't. I didn't upload it yet to the Prezi server, so I'll show you

that next time. Either way, this is Prezi, fantastic tool,

great non linear presentation and communication tool and how to get a really strong visual

paradigm using 123RF and by the way just to be clear, Prezi is free. You can pay some

money at the desktop version levels. Over here in 123RF you can see I've already bought

this particular image but you know $5, $6, maybe $10 to actually buy the image that you

need to use for Prezi. There you go. Prezi. My absolute choice, hands

down, when it comes to presentation materials and speaker support.