Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Convering Your Old PowerPoints to Prezis

If you are like me, you resisted MySpace as a waste of time. If you are like me, you refused – for years -- to convert over to Facebook even when it had become the dominant social media site for personal and professional use. So when the “newest” technology touts to replace an “old” one, I wait to see if it “sticks” before jumping on the bandwagon. I have changed my tune, thanks to new technologies, like Prezi, which are far superior to their predecessors.


Prezi is a visual spatial way to create dynamic presentations. When a colleague, Adele Weiner, introduced it a few years ago, I instantly could see the advantages of moving away from a linear slide presentation mode. PowerPoint is to Prezi what slides are to digital images, what Friendster is to Facebook… You get the idea.

But what about all those PowerPoint Presentations you labored over? All those transitions perfectly timed, original backgrounds created, hypertext links fixed? You don’t want to redo all that work. Recently-ish (we are talking technology after all), Prezi added a new “import PowerPoint” tool. Here’s a link on how to convert your PowerPoints to Prezis. http://youtu.be/X7PKkYX_458. Yes, there’s still some back work required once the conversion happens, but it’s not as laborious as all that work it took to update your MySpace background with shooting stars.

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