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As far as humor goes, the more I speak, the more I’m allowing myself to just be me – which is a bit dangerous ’cause I tend to have extremely “sharp”/dry/ or at times nasty humor… I always read the audience and just use as much humor as I feel the audience can take (I interract heavily with the audience members, hence I get a good feel about their sense of humor, etc.)

My opening? … and closing…? Those are the two parts of my presentations that I spend most time on, and I do my best to memorize them. The meet of the speech is easy – what I work hard on is to create openings that grab the audience right away; and closings that will leave the audince with a feeling that “Yes, this was a great presentation!.”