Comments on: Two Excellent Alternatives to PowerPoint

By: In praise of the linear presentation - Plain Advice

In praise of the linear presentation - Plain Advice — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:09:56 +0000

[...] are now lots of bits of software that let you amaze audiences with a non-linear presentations. We talked about some of these a while ago. We even hoped that they would improve. Sadly, they haven’t. And there are new entrants to the market, such as projeqt that let you [...]

By: Dougie

Dougie — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:43:29 +0000

I find Prezi difficult to understand. First there seem to be different levels of online access. The public access is free, but the online tutorials appear geared towards individuals who have already purchased higher levels of Prezi access. So what the Prezi tutorials demonstrate as you are being introduced to Prezi may not exactly match up to what you are working with at the public access level . So I was left with a lack of confidence regarding my ability to correctly utilize Prezi and hesitant to purchase more advanced levels of Prezi access as a result. There is a section about how to “Prezify” your Powerpoint presentation. But, again this was frustrating to watch and learn from step by step as it went far too quickly.
Presentation software packages are very clever tools. But, I still find that the best presenters, and even those who utilize Powerpoint, intuitively understand that audiences quickly tire from too much text and graphs on the screen. Liberal use of Images (a picture is worth a thousand words) as well as an articulate narrative keep a groups’ attention better than graphs and text can. Unfortunately liberal use of text and graphs can be just as easily overused in Prezi as they can in Powerpoint.

By: Mookstar

Mookstar — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:57:16 +0000

I’ve had good experiences with Prezi.

I wonder, though, why there aren’t more alternatives to PowerPoint. It strikes me that this could be a good business opportunity for some budding entrepreneur.