Have you noticed the proliferation of virtual presentations and meetings? Do you need to present online? Check out “How To Bypass The 5 Worst Mistakes In Online Presentations.” Women’s career and leadership expert Kathy Caprino invited me to share my thoughts for this story for her Forbes blog. What’s in it for introverts? Online presenting is a particularly efficient use of our social energy. So it’s worth taking the time to master this skill. And you’ll get good by practicing. Start by doing that. Today.

When fellow Psychology Today introvert blogger Sophia Dembling and I recently chatted by phone, we discovered that we both like communicating in sound bites—an efficient use of our introverts’ energy. So I interviewed Dembling, author most recently of The Introvert’s Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World, on Twitter. In case you missed it, I’ve excerpted our exchange below about fun, flâneurs, phones, and feeling good for introverts, even if life around you is, in Dembling’s words, “a Mountain Dew commercial.” (In case you don’t use Twitter, the @ symbol before our names is just the way our handles appear on that platform.) (more…)