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After creating the perfect prezi, it’s time to share your ideas with the world. For this week’s Prezi Feature, we discuss the different ways you can share your presentation and reach out to any type of audience.
It took some time to get there, but you’ve finally finished creating the perfect prezi. After reviewing your presentation one last time, you decide that it’s ready to reach the eyes (and ears) of a larger crowd. So how do you make sure that your prezi reaches its intended audience? Well, it will all depend on who you’re trying to reach out to. Did you make your prezi for a big pitch? Is it a part of your content marketing campaign? Are you leading an online meeting with attendees scattered all over the country? Whatever the case, it’s easy to present and share your prezi any way you want.
Portable Prezi: For a traditional audience
Whether it’s inside a boardroom or an auditorium, traditional presentations are delivered directly to an audience. For situations like these, you might find yourself with one very practical concern. What if the venue you’re presenting at doesn’t have a reliable Internet connection? How can you use your prezi if you can’t access it online? To avoid any awkward mishaps, take the extra step to download a portable prezi.
Basically, a portable prezi is just the downloaded version of your presentation file. It’s something you can access on a Mac or PC without the use of an Internet connection, working the same way that a PowerPoint file would. It’s a great way to make sure your prezi is ready to go once you begin setting up inside the presentation venue.
To get your portable prezi, head to your library and click on the presentation you want to save. Next, find the ”Download‘ button at the bottom of your Prezi player.
When the pop-up window appears, choose the ‘Presenting‘ option. Hit the blue button and just wait for your download to finish. If you encounter an error, Prezi will quickly prompt you to restart your download.
When the whole process is over, you’ll get a ZIP file in your hard drive. Unzip the folder and click on the .exe file if you’re a PC user or the Prezi file if you’re on Mac.
Embedding Prezis: For a content marketing campaign
Another way you might want to share a prezi is by including it in your content marketing campaign. If this is the case, you can easily embed your prezi on to your company blog or website.
Access the prezi you want to share through your library and click on the ‘Embed‘ button underneath the player. When the pop-up window appears, all you have to do is copy the HTML code and paste it to wherever you’re editing your content.
You can also adjust the size of the embedded prezi, and determine whether your audience will be free to pan and zoom across your presentation.
Present Remotely: For an audience gathered online
What about scenarios when you have to deliver the entirety of your presentation online? If you’re presenting to an audience that can only gather online, you have the choice to present your prezi remotely.
Like in the last two methods, all you have to do is access your prezi through the library. This time, you’ll need to click on the ‘Present Remotely‘ button below the Prezi player. Once the pop-up appears, copy the link that’s provided to you and send it to your audience. Once everyone has the link, you can click on ‘Start remote presentation‘.
You can have up to 30 individuals following your presentation and they don’t have to be Prezi users. However, when other Prezi users are following your presentation, you’ll see their avatars pop-up at the side of the screen. To turn the presentation over to any one of them, you can click on their avatars and choose ‘Hand over presentation‘.
As you can see, it’s not that hard to share a prezi to your intended audience. In fact, you can do it with relative ease. After all your work to polish both content and design, your prezi deserves a wider audience.
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How do you even present a Prezi? Does it also work offline? Many Prezi users are unaware of all the different options Prezi offers for presenting and sharing presentations. In this blog post we give you a small overview.
Present Prezi online
1. Via your browser on prezi.com
This option is the best known among most users. You can choose any Prezi from your dashboard and simply click the play symbol to start the presentation.
Alternatively, click the arrow in the bottom right corner and select “Present”.
While editing a Prezi you can start the presentation at any time by clicking the blue “Present” button in the upper right corner of the menu.
In both cases the Prezi starts after a short loading time – either with the overview or your individually set “Custom Starting Point”. You can now control the Prezi by clicking the arrows at the bottom of the screen. Either use a Presenter (e.g. by Logitech), the arrow keys on your keyboard, or click the main or subtopics. You are also able to freely zoom in on any object. Just scroll your mouse wheel or click the desired object.
2. Prezi Live (paid license required) This feature allows you to share your Prezi with an audience of up to 30 people. They are then able to follow your Prezi live on their own computer.
To use this option, you have to generate a link before presenting live the first time. You only need to create this link once. In the course of the process, you also need to choose the URL under which all Prezis will be presented in the future. Choose this name carefully, it can not be changed later.
To generate this personal URL, choose a Prezi on your dashboard. Click the arrow in the bottom right corner, then choose “Live Prezi”.
While editing the prezi you can click the icon in the menu bar at the top right.
If this is the first time you chose this function, a new window opens. You can now set the personal URL.
If the selected name has already been assigned, you will receive a corresponding message. If you succeed with your name choice, a new window opens with your personal URL: https://www.prezi.com/live/NAME_Your_url. Copy this link and send it to the recipients via email. Here you can also specify whether your live session is password protected.
Then click on “Start Live Prezi” and wait until your participants are on board. After loading the Prezi, you will see the number of participants in the upper right corner. Once the Prezi has loaded completely on a viewer’s computer, the number is increased accordingly.
Now you can present as usual – all clicks, tracking shots and zooms can be viewed by the audience in real time. The sound is best transmitted by phone, Skype or similar. Prezi itself does not offer sound transmission. To quit the live presentation, just click on the corresponding button in the info window on the top right.
3. Share a link
Paying Prezi users have the opportunity to create an unlimited number of links to their presentation, allowing viewers to see the Prezi. To generate a link to a Prezi, choose one from your dashboard and click the button with the three dots.
Alternatively, click on the arrow at the bottom right and select “Share Link to Watch”.
Now a new window pops up. Click the button on the right titled “Create new link”.
Another window opens and you can enter the name for the link in the upper field. We recommend entering the name of the viewer or the company name. As mentioned earlier, you can create as many links as you like for different viewers, and keep track of them with the label.
Present Prezi offline
1. Desktop App
The Prezi Desktop App doesn’t require access to the internet. Similar to the online version on prezi.com, you can present your Prezis via the Dashboard (Play-Button) or via Editor (Button “Start Presentation”). You can also use the arrows at the bottom of the screen to navigate. Either use a presenter (e.g. by Logitech), the keyboard arrow keys, or by clicking the main or subtopics.You are also able to freely zoom in on any object. Just scroll your mouse wheel or click the desired object.
2. Portable Prezi
A portable Prezi can only be created using the Prezi Next Desktop App. Click the arrow in the dashboard view – then a window opens with further details about the Prezi.
Click “Download” and choose between the two options “Prezi for Windows” and / or “Prezi for Mac”.
After selection, the Windows Explorer or Finder opens and you can name the file(s) and select the location. After confirmation, the portable Prezi will be saved in the selected versions. The Windows version (extension “.exe”) can be started directly with double click, while the version for the Mac (“.zip”) needs to be unzipped. Your portable Prezi can be presented in the same way you would present a Prezi via the desktop app or online on Prezi.com.
3. On the tablet To present a Prezi on the tablet you need to install the Prezi Viewer App. We recommend the installation of the latest version. When you create a presentation on your computer, it automatically syncs with the Prezi Viewer app on your tablet. It’s also possible to remotely control a Prezi on your desktop using a tablet connect via bluetooth.
Do you have questions about this new feature? We are happy to help if you contact us.