"Whoa" is the first reaction I get when I show off yesterday's project. I'm astounded at the ease of manipulation in ZuiPrezi, the online, flash-based, zooming and swooping presentation tool. Watching a presentation conjures up images of those neat and just out-of-reach multi-touch interfaces.

Thanks to an reintroduction to FreeMind as a presentation tool by Scott Granneman a few years back, I started to appreciate the ability to move information that isn't relevent to the current point of a presentation out of sight to reduce distractions. I was still able to keep context to the larger topic by showing linked relationships.

Not all information is that simple though, and to force all points down in to singular links sometimes causes me to minimize the importance of other relationships between information. Sometimes it's enough to just show that a relationship exists. And, sometimes I just need to tell a story

ZuiPrezi delivers. The development team has built an intuitive design interface which can be controlled with simple keystrokes almost as easily as with the mouse. Here's a snip of the toolbox:

The basic process is this:

• Drop information, images, video, and lines into the workspace
• Draw "screens" to control the presentation zoom level and degrees of rotation
• Draw a path from presentation start to finish.

Hit escape a few times to change to presentation mode. Click next and the presenter swooshes into and out of your screens to present varying levels of emphasis as perceived by relative object size. The vector nature of Flash makes this possible. Dots don't cut it, as evident by the tools handling of photos and images. Yuck. 

This won't remove FreeMind from my toolset. Heck, I'll probably embed mindmaps into my Zuis, as long as the service stays available and reliable. I certainly don't trust it completely yet. I've come back into a saved presentation more than once to find my presentation looking different from how I left it.

Without further ado, here's the current state of the presentation I'm building:

Discussion about the tool is welcome; so is feedback and reaction about the current state of the presentation.  

comments...

Interesting Jason (from 68.111.128.xxx) on 2008-08-22 19:58:36 said: I like the boildown of joomla - joomla is a bit more complicated than that but it explains it rather well. I would not refer to com_content as com_content rather the Content Component reply to this

Re: Interesting Steve (from 75.28.91.xxx) on 2008-08-23 06:54:43 said: You're completely right. I need a way to introduce it to new users in a way that connects ideas to making it happen. My next goals will be to actually incorporate some screenshots to move ideas into content and into publication. I'm actually thinking about visualizing the module positions and assignments to. I'd love to explain all of Joomla! in one presentation.. but... who has a month? reply to this

Re: above Jason (from 68.111.128.xxx) on 2008-08-25 20:14:02 said: if you want suggestions you know where to find me. ps here's my stab at a Joomla site (I hacked alot of the modules and components) http://www.reversereview.com pps I hate your capatcha - to small to read reply to this

Re: above Steve (from 75.28.91.xxx) on 2008-08-26 12:00:51 said: I hate the captcha too. At least the reason I haven't fixed it is that I have lots of work to do. I would like to talk to you about your experience, especially in educating content owners. How do you manage patches on your hacked mods/components? reply to this

Jason (from 68.111.128.xxx) on 2008-08-26 20:13:40 said: well mostly I take a module that kinda does what I need, ie email subscription mod on right sidebar - and changed the way it functions to make it do what I need. If an update comes out I'll see if there is anything pressing that needs to be integrated and do it manually. I got pretty good hacking around someone elses code while working with Lee - and J! has a structure (heh) ps since J! is GPL you can remove the built with joomla disclaimers at the bottom of your StL IT site as long as you keep the license in the code - makes it look more professional reply to this

Thread's getting out of contr Steve (from 75.28.91.xxx) on 2008-08-26 21:54:55 said: Know what you mean on the first part. Sorry the captcha is still there. I'll replace this comment tool sometime, but I have more pressing issues, like taking care of customers and even updating this to 1.5. I put the J! link into the bottom of the site purposefully and a practice for promoting the software. It's something I picked up from www.LeftBrain.net, where I've been doing contract work. I think keeping the link adds credibility to the project, and it makes it easier to promote Joomla! packages as viable solutions for business' needs. By the way, might you be interested in doing some freelance work? Is that an option for you? We're always interested in contract-based help who are reliable, professional, and damn good. reply to this

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