Just one week to go before the start of the 8th Annual Strategic Intranet Summit .

I found myself being more fussy during the preparation of my presentation than usual, possibly because I'll be providing insight into how my employer's Extranet was created. The issue is that I need to provide compelling information to my fellow delegates, without providing too much insight for our competitors. As a result, I opted for a presentation that is relatively low on text, but visually rich. I choose this approach not only to not reveal too much in an electronic format, but also because I believe that modern presentations tend to loose oratory impact because we tend to rely too much on our slides.

The two most compelling presentations I have attended in the last five years was by Don Norman (at University of Canterbury) and Greg Comfort (talking about Web Standards during a seminar at my workplace). Both speakers delivered rich oral presentations that were beautifully illustrated, but not overshadowed, by their slides.

Greg is presenting at the Intranet Summit too, and I'm looking forward to listen to him! The other talk I particularly look forward too, is Michael Sampson on Collaboration.