Don’t forget post-speech thank-you notes

If it’s appropriate to thank the host organization or the program organizer, by all means do so, particularly if you’d like to be invited back.  An e-mail message the next day is OK, but a hand written thank-you note has more impact.  You might also ask that person how they felt the presentation went.

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