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After completing the metrics reports for two Social Media Recruitment Strategies that were launched in January and ‘completed’ just last week (well, actually ‘paused’ by the client), I started to think about how I wanted to present and promote my data and samples. These (very successful, might I add) two campaigns had lots of great metrics, graphs and creative that were developed. After compiling the PDF reports and laying out all the visual examples for each of these campaigns, I really wanted to display the information I was reporting within an interesting and visually stimulating format. The campaigns themselves were very fluid and utilized the ever-changing vehicle of social media and I felt my PDF format was falling flat. So, I thought of Prezi.

Techcrunch described Prezi as “just plain awesome. It’s entirely Flash-based app that lets you break away from the slide-by-slide approach of most presentations. Instead, it allows you to create non-linear presentations where you can zoom in and out of a visual map containing words, links, images, videos, etc.” (If you want to read the rest of the review, click here.)

So, I’ll be building my two Prezi’s today, you’ll see the results in my next week’s blog post – I’m using their canvas, zoom, zebra, frames, rotation and storyline tools. Prezi’s can be viewed in a web browser, freestanding or embedded within a blog for presentation/sharing purposes. Stay tuned for my next Tuesday blog with my two Prezi’s!! I can’t wait! I love learning new tools! Seriously. I do.

If you’ve had experience or have developed Prezi’s for your own needs, feel free to share them! Comment and post your links.

And, here’s a link to some cool Prezi’s that others have created. http://prezi.com/showcase/