About the Reviewers
Marthe Bijman is a writer, literary critic, and communications specialist in Mining Engineering. She has worked extensively in the Mining and Information Technology industries. She holds a BA degree, BA Honors in Literature, BA Honors in Journalism, H.Dip.Ed in Language Teaching, and MA in Applied Linguistics and Literary Sciences. She has nurtured a lifelong interest in language and literary analysis, and is an astute and prolific reader and literature reviewer. She publishes her reviews and thoughts on the written word on her blog and website, www.sevencircumstances.com. In collaboration with her husband, she is the author and designer of self-published photography, reference, and poetry books, featured at www.blurb.com. Born in South Africa, she now lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.
Jeremine Holt is a passionate presentation designer, illustrator, and a Prezi trainer. She lives in Rotterdam, Holland and knows how to successfully combine entrepreneurship and being a single mum. Since she started her graphic design business in 1999, she's also been teaching about design software and the design process to students, adults, and children. She is always on the lookout for chances to create authentic visual communication with preferably multiple layers of meaning. Therefore, being just a graphic designer (http://www.westenwindontwerp.nl) wasn't enough. She did elaborate research on visualization methods that can be used to improve the results of change management. Her conclusion is that visualizing change and showing where an organization wants to go and how to get there is very effective. It gets people engaged and motivated.
While looking for the best way to present her visualizations, she discovered Prezi in 2010. She realized that Prezi isn't just a tool. When used in the right way, it can be a motor for creativity, innovation, and visual thinking.
Since then, she's been teaching Prezi and creating visual presentations (http://www.thepreziexperience.nl). Jeremine has, for example, worked for Rotterdam's city manager, for the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, and for the international consultancy firm, Auren.
These days, she's further developing her business in presentation design and visual content creation. It's her mission to build as many bridges as possible between creativity and the business world.
David Hopkins is an experienced and respected Learning Technologist in the UK. His work and research focuses on the use of appropriate technology for students, online and on campus. From a background in commercial Internet technologies and online communities, David has been able to apply knowledge and experience with online learning and support and bring about effective and appropriate use of technology for learning. His current interests and research are based around the use of mobile devices for online learning (for both campus and distance learners), and the use of social media and social networks for effective communication and collaboration between staff, students, and his peers.
David Hopkins is a regular blogger at www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk. He blogs about different aspects of learning technology, Blackboard, CMS/VLEs, social networks, and other aspects of the utilization of technology in a pedagogic environment. He started blogging about his experiences and activities in 2008, but has been an advocate of blogging and online "communities" since 1999. He first worked as a web designer. Prezi has long been David's passion and he offers Prezi workshops to academic staff and students alike and enables students to leave higher education ready for the modern office environment, giving them skills and knowledge to incorporate new technologies and new approaches to existing technology in the workplace.
Mikah J. Pritchard is an Instructional Designer currently living in Kentucky. She has an MS. Ed. degree in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University and has begun working on her Doctorate in Educational Psychology from University of Kentucky. She develops e-learning courses that implement new technologies to produce engaging instruction with a strong theoretical basis. Her passion for graphic design is incorporated into all of her instructional projects.
Mikah has worked at Vincennes University, DePauw University, and is currently working at Eastern Kentucky University. At EKU, she works within the Instructional Development Center (IDC) on course design for e-campus courses. Her areas of expertise include instructional design, instructional technology consulting, graphic design, student support, and social media education.
She has also reviewed Mastering Prezi for Business, Russell Anderson-Williams, R., Packt Publishing (reviewed in 2012 prior to publication).
J.J. Sylvia IV has experience spanning the fields of business, education, and non-profit that have given him the opportunity to develop a unique perspective on the way people use and engage with technology.
As a PhD student in the communication, rhetoric, and digital media program at North Carolina State University, he researches and teaches people about the way technology affects one's view of the world and can be used persuasively for positive change. He has also managed paid advertising and marketing strategies for an e-commerce site, developed a social media outreach initiative for a non-profit, managed AmeriCorps interns who worked to integrate technology into the classroom, and built a community around an educational outreach blog.
J.J. Sylvia IV has published chapters in books such as Ethical Issues in E-Business, published by Business Science Reference; and Radiohead and Philosophy, Doctor Who and Philosophy, and Supervillains and Philosophy, all published by Open Court.