Free version: Private spaces, 3GB storage, delete space (is apparently just around the corner according to a blog comment from their COO), and much better layout options. Easy choice for me

Submitted to Prezi Blog Sept. 2009:

“I’ve been looking into Prezi for our group but there’s a few real obstacles before we (or others here in the US) could adopt it. Thought I would share it with you.

1) The fact that you default ALL presentations – except those on the ENJOY plan to “public” – is crippling. If you are going to gain audience traction by intending to “retain” the work people create for your own “showcase”, then at the least you should allow TRIAL users to fully make private as well as DELETE their presentations. This way they have the opportunity to “show” the concept in action to their peers without the most obvious concern that “their company or organization data” is publicly displayed without the consent of ALL stakeholders.

2) Security and privacy is a concern because in many organizations- multiple people need to “approve” use of a new application – which usually will not happen in less than 30 days. Therefore, it is impossible for those of us to actually endorse your app as a viable solution- because we have no way to ensure the rest of our team of security of the presentation. I believe in the hundreds of reviews written about your app – the ability to set prezi’s to “private” and security overall has been a REPETITIVE concern.

3) Your help manual gives absolutely NO specification on “how to DELETE your prezi” entirely off your servers. While “delete” appears to be an option on the “download desktop version” (which comes at a hefty fee) — still no way to delete off your servers. Which many have found to be a bit “Orwellian” of a tactic. Even YouTube allows you to delete your own content. Why not prezi?

I am writing this not to be critical – but because I am disappointed that for the above reasons- I am unable to utilize what otherwise appears to be a very progressive alternative to the usual “ppt” presentation style.

I seriously suggest loosening up on your policy with regards to ability to delete, make private, regardless of pricing level. Again, at the very least – give trial users the 30 days of full functionality and make it CLEAR that if they do not remove their prezi’s before the trial date- then they WILL be perpetually part of the public timeline.

Hope this feedback helps.

so… sadly… without being able to clarify my questions about the terms of service, and having the copyright abuse reporting alias turned off, i won’t be able to use it.

still.. this is an easy thing to fix and probably an oversight. it’s not _that_ big of a deal that a startup missed something in the purely administrivia side of the house. but.. in the window that prezi had my attention, it turned out to be unusable due to a mildly confusing ToS and the inability to clarify it.

i hope they get this fixed so the next person with the same concerns i have doesn’t walk away disappointed.

assuming something shinier doesn’t come my way the next time i start a project, i’ll probably loop back around and see if the ToS is clearer or if questions about it show up in the known issues page.

Prezi is simple. And any added time you take in creating your slides, I think, is due to the wonderful new way of thinking non-linearly about a presentation.

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