Three things you need to know about me - I am an entrepreneur, a gamer, and I absolutely hate public speaking. I signed on to a small gaming start-up a year ago, and because of our limited staff, I sometimes need to take the helm when interacting with clients. I remember the first time I had to take a client to our conference room for a presentation on 3D-animation. My hands were visibly shaky as I tried to get everything set-up, and the moment I realized the video was not displaying, my legs were ready to collapse. All of this - and I had not even begun speaking. Within the last year though, we switched to an amazing new audio-visual company (which you can read about here), and I have slowly been learning about how good technology can make us all better speakers.

Even though I work with technology every day of my life, I came to resent it when it came to presentations. We all know how it goes; being the poor soul stuck in the audience, watching a meeting drag on because some stray wire is stopping a video's sound from playing. And let me tell you as someone with a deep fear of public speaking - it is even worse for me than it is for you. For how commonplace presentations in the workplace are, they sure are picky about when they decide to work smoothly.

Then my company swapped its AV-systems entirely to the Denmark-based Neets, and I realized something remarkable. Because I did not have to worry about fiddling with wires, and because I could be confident that my presentation would display exactly how I wanted it, a lot of my anxiety disappeared. Do not get me wrong, the nervous anticipation is still there, but the moment I start presenting I feel like my ideas can come through with clarity and confidence.