Why to be Zombie when you have Prezi..!!

In my MBA, we have two live business consultancy projects to do as a part of our curriculum for which we worked almost more than 6 months and then after all that sleepless nights and hardcore work, time come up to present our final findings about that project.

For me, It was my first real time business consultancy presentation experience, and of course I wanted to do something special and different to win over my clients and supervisor quickly. Very enthusiastically I turned to PowerPoint to enrol good animated stuff to my presentation but It was really too much of work and was still showing no different values added to it. However, I wanted to make simple presentation with little tickle for my audience feel that little “Woooohh...!”

Honestly speaking, I do understand that winning audience is many times mainly depend on the presenter rather than anything else but I also feel that to keep that interest going for long time presenter need to have something for audience to look at. That’s when, PowerPoint came in picture and soon became very common too. Nowadays, if you see people put best of the information in their PowerPoint presentation, but audience doesn’t even look at it and goes absolutely dead. The sole reason for this is PowerPoint presentations paralyze the audience, make them fell asleep while the rubbish presenter speaks sotto voce (Italian - Under Voice) on stage reading the speech word-for-all-stumbling-words. After all this then, there is no room left for someone who is poor presenter. Now only one thing can poor presenter make survive is the tool and technique which he used to present his idea and make that zombie speaker stand out, and a poor idea shine. 

Having thought of all this in my mind I decided to find something very simple to make and very attractive to look at. Since then, I started doing Internet research to find something new which can be different, creative, innovative, and eye catchy and most important keeps the audience engaged. After having look at few such ideas I came across PREZI.com and the moment I saw it I decided Yes!! This is what I want for my final presentation. Then, I convinced my team and started working on it.

Initially, I found its bit weird and vague but later I realized that’s actually it’s strength. It was very easy to learn and understand. The feature I loved most in Prezi was simplicity in presenting one’s idea, Prezi allows the speaker to encourage a dialogue, and visualize ideas as if you were drawing a mind map for your audience and keep their interest in presentation than creating linear line of slides. This feature adds huge plus point because you can refer all slides or each slide to other whenever you want without making audience confused from one slide to another.

If you want to have demo for this please have a look on below link for sample presentation, where one can just start making presentation like Mind Map and present exactly the same way, with no sequential slide no structure, nothing. Just start putting your ideas the way you want, connect them and just present them. 

http://prezi.com/kh8oftmvbuxk/seven-wonders-of-the-ancient-world/

So, I think it’s time for me, you and all of us to move forward from PowerPoint to something else to be better presenter or at least try and not to be a presenter who is walking on stage in front of dead audience.