Yes, these people exist. If you've been on Twitter at all you've seen them. Hopefully you're not one of them. If you are, consider yourself warned...people are avoiding you.

You know that saying that the customer is always right? It's not true.

I bombed the first time I did a big presentation.

It ruined my weekend because I thought it was going to be awesome and it definitely wasn't. After I got over the embarrassment I forced myself to focus on the communication side of presenting. For a year I didn't even use a computer or projector. It was like the "wax on, wax off" approach to presenting, but I had to learn how to hold an audience's attention.

When I felt like I knew how to communicate better I started using slides and presentation software again. "Presenting (In A Nutshell)" is a brief overview of what I've learned through the years and how I approach presentations at their most rudimentary level. It still works for me today.