VisualBee regularly extends the range of styles available to users. There are already hundreds of really smart and useful templates that you can select, on the fly, and the number is continually growing. Recently one of VisualBee’s designers developed a new concept for styles, one that is explicitly intended for presentations with minimal content. There is a growing momentum that encourages speakers to deliver an almost exclusively oral talk with PowerPoint being used only as a place holder.

In Pecha Kucha, which I wrote about in this blog on February 7, you put a very basic idea on a slide – a few words at most – and you must get a sharp and lucid message across to the audience about this particular subject, building upon the concept in the slide. And all of this must be down within framework of 400 seconds – 20 slides, each for 20 seconds.

The Lessig Method is less demanding. Each slide can contain only a short quote, or a photo. The following link,
to a presentation in support of Obama’s 2008 primary campaign, is an example of Lessig at his best.
This presentation and narration give you a good idea of just how powerful this technique can be:

http://www.lessig.org/blog/2008/02/20_minutes_or_so_on_why_i_am_4.html

Not everyone can do this, but effective speakers can keep an audience spellbound. Where can VisualBee come
to your assistance when you are delivering such a talk? The VisualBee algorithms identify the single or string
of words in each slide and effectively adorns it with appropriate graphics.

These new VisualBee styles can be identified by the word TITLE in large text. Try it. It is quite interesting to see
what a bit of color and an appropriate image does to ensure that your audience is with you from the first moment.