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As presen­ted at BarcampSydney3: 

• Ima­gine the best presenter/presentation you have seen
  • This per­son has prac­tised more than once.
  • plan for the worst case scen­ario (no pro­jector, laptop nor audience)
• know audi­ence, topic, environment
  • If you are not com­fort­able wit the topic, don’t present it
• Theatre
  • pro­ject­ing your voice: always stand
  • volume levels: for any audi­ence above 4 people, you need to turn it up a little bit
  • break­ing the fourth wall (that is, walk and talk into the audience)
  • Use props.
  • hot vs cold liquids: care­ful with water as it tight­ens the vocal chords
• emo­tional connection
  • Emo­tional pro­jec­tion: like voice volume, you need to turn it up a few notches to make an impact 
  • tell stor­ies: humans have brains wired to remem­ber stor­ies and retell them
  • audi­ence involve­ment: get someone on stage and break the fourth wall
• ref­er­en­tial comedy
  • appro­pri­ate humor (think of your audi­ence) is always a good thing to incorporate
  • to help: keep ref­er­en­cing one humour­ous comment/moment
• Deal­ing with the hecklers
  • atten­tion seekers (so give them some attention)
  • or are pained by some exper­i­ence (divert to post-presentation one on one)
• always leave your audi­ence want­ing more

Thanks, Srid­har, for the pos­it­ive blog com­ments.