Keeping audience attention? – try interaction

From Nick Morgan a great article on

How to interact with an audience — 7 questions to get you started

Audiences today expect to have a conversation with speakers, and they crave real connection with successful speakers.  The best way to ensure that these good things happen during your presentations is to involve your audiences throughout.
But that takes some art.  How do you think about it?  How do you avoid the lame arrangement of too many presentations where the speaker drones on for 45 minutes, then stops and says, “Any questions?”  As the audience shakes itself awake, and starts wondering if it does in fact have any questions, the speaker stands there for what seems like an eternity, then gives up and concludes that no one cares.
How do you avoid this dysfunctional state of affairs?  How can you involve audiences in your presentations?
Following are a series of questions to ask the audience, in order to start connecting with them