Several weeks ago, I met with an an interesting company that produces perhaps a most useful product…all currently available on the iPhone. Remarkably, this is perhaps one of the most important apps out there right now that provides useful and business-specific help to professionals who often times may have to go out and talk in front of colleagues, investors or conference attendees.
Just what is this modern miracle that has some real day-to-day applicability? It’s Presenter Pro and it’s created by Rexi Media, available now on the Apple iTunes Store.
Some of the cool features in this application, according to Rexi Media:
- Advanced presentation skills techniques with eye-catching supporting graphics, audio, and video clips.
- A “tip shaker” for accessing hundreds of quick presentation tips. Shake the device while viewing any of the sections for a quick tip.
- A checklist feature which enables you to store and e-mail any topic paragraph(s) you want to refer to later.
- A Notes feature for writing (and e-mailing) comments and notes. Exercises to practice your skills and knowledge check quizzes to help you remember the information.
I’ve seen a lot of people in the industry give talks either on panel discussions or individually and for the most part, they’re pretty good speakers and provide very useful information. But, there have also been those that are less than impressive that you wish would be better since they’re giving an important talk, perhaps during a conference keynote or a meeting in front of stakeholders. This is probably where Presenter Pro comes into play.
For only 99 cents, users can have their own “Rosetta Stone” type application on their iPhone and/or iTouch that will allow them to substantially improve their presentation skills. Best of all, you can learn about these skills on your own – almost like a “Do It Yourself” program. So as you’re commuting into work or when you have some spare time in your day, you can pull out your iPhone and whiz through some of the interesting tutorials and self-help tips that Presenter Pro offers you.
In the beginning of Presenter Pro, you’re able to choose from several items that addresses different topics that you could improve yourself on, including structure, visuals, words, voice, gestures and practice. Once you’ve chosen one, you’re able to get more granular in your selection – meaning that more choices will be given to you. For example, if you chose “Visuals”, the next screen would give you tutorials on thinking in pictures, facts, processes, data, abstracts, using pictures, text, lines & shapes, and color.
From this point, you’re given a screen with detailed information and graphics on best practices, statistics, and other helpful information that will get you to improve your presentation skills. The beauty of Presenter Pro is that it doesn’t expect you to memorize all the facts. Rather, it has a few helpful tools to get you to recall the information easily.
Once you’ve breezed through each different module in Presenter Pro, you’re going to be able to take a short quiz that will help in your recollection of the information. If you think that you’re going to want to save some bit of data given in a module, you’re able to take a snippet of that and make a note in another part of the app that will let you quickly recall the information without having to go through the entire module again searching for it. There’s also some videos included in the application so if you’re better at visual and animated tutorials, this may help you out.
Presenter Pro is officially out and available for downloading. It’s only available via the iTunes Store and you can get it by clicking here. It should be noted that this app has already been named as one of the top 25 business applications for the iPhone and iTouch.
So don’t worry about people making fun of your presentation skills any longer. Now you have the ultimate tool to help truly and clearly get your message across.
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