* Choose the "offline download" option in the main menu. In your browser do some version of "Save" with the type "Webpage Complete." This saves as a webpage with all associated CSS and JS. You can run it anywhere. If you have an internet connection, you will receive interaction data (e.g. poll responses)
* Download a full-slide PDF (less desirable, but more familiar)
These features need to be better documented, I'll try to work on a blog entry on this!
It is NOT the same as Prezi as the emphasis is on interaction. Last time I checked, Prezi (and Powerpoint) presentations are deterministic: from the minute you hit run there's not much you or the audience can do to change the slides. The goal is to change that as much as possible: if you're going to take the audience as serious participants in your presentation, they need to be able to influence it's outcome. The presentation should be less about information transfer, more about brainstorming or co-creation. I have a long way to go there technically, but that's my thinking!
> Last time I checked, Prezi (and Powerpoint) presentations are deterministic: from the minute you hit run there's not much you or the audience can do to change the slides.
I started using Prezi since soon after it came out, and this was never the case. You can build guided paths, though even that isn't quite like saying "run", but what was powerful with Prezi was that if you use it for content where it really makes sense, content that is inherently spatial (which isn't actually most of the content I give in talks, so I haven't really used it much over the years), you can rapidly move around the content, you can edit it if you want (as the tool that you use to present is the editor), and effectively decided how the presentation will play out as you give the talk. In this article, the talk I'm giving is done with Prezi, and while I've given this talk many times, I've never twice did I do the talk in the same order, and often decide how to order the content based on the questions and feedback I get from the audience, and no one is any the wiser as Prezi is actually really good at that.
Yes, fair enough the path is not deterministic (although I think slide content may be). Ironically, in 2Sli.de the path is deterministic, and the content is not! Maybe something to work on there.
There is another problem for, I am assuming, many people on here. Giving a copy of your presentation data to a 3rd party company is horrible for opsec.
In the financing industry? Get ready for someone to take advantage of all of your investing knowledge. In the contrasting business? Get ready to be sued, or if you're working for the government get ready to take an all expense paid vacation to Guantanamo.
You need to be able to make sure that your data stays offline ALL the time. Something like this is not practical as I cannot ensure that my data will stay as secret as can be.
Fair enough, but in every instance in my professional experience where presentation data has leaked (unauthorized) - or full presentations themselves - they were sourced/obtained/provided by a former internal employee of the prior firm, or a current employee with strong enough ties to the recipient to justify the procedure.
Granted I'm somewhat biased in that a lot of the work experience I did in presentations was for public entities who had significant channels for obtaining submitted documents by all interested parties (e.g. Florida's Sunshine Law). Even with marking certain things "Proprietary and Confidential" there were judgment calls to be made about what to put in and why.
Yes, on several occasions the submitted materials ended up being used by the potential client and their current service provider (i.e. investment strategies), and with little to no recourse. Cost of doing business. Can only protect so much.
Yes, that is a good point. I had really only envisioned this as a web app: I think a web-based editor with all data offline would not be easily accommodated in the design: I'd have to advise someone with those particular needs to look elsewhere!
* Choose the "offline download" option in the main menu. In your browser do some version of "Save" with the type "Webpage Complete." This saves as a webpage with all associated CSS and JS. You can run it anywhere. If you have an internet connection, you will receive interaction data (e.g. poll responses)
* Download a full-slide PDF (less desirable, but more familiar)
These features need to be better documented, I'll try to work on a blog entry on this!
It is NOT the same as Prezi as the emphasis is on interaction. Last time I checked, Prezi (and Powerpoint) presentations are deterministic: from the minute you hit run there's not much you or the audience can do to change the slides. The goal is to change that as much as possible: if you're going to take the audience as serious participants in your presentation, they need to be able to influence it's outcome. The presentation should be less about information transfer, more about brainstorming or co-creation. I have a long way to go there technically, but that's my thinking!