Coterie Spark

AUGUST 14, 2020

You would never purchase a car without a test drive, so you should expect more than a PowerPoint or PDF to sell you on an event platform. . Polling is a superb way to keep participants engaged and can provide valuable insight to presenters, attendees, and administrators alike. Most platforms allow you to pre-schedule polls.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 4, 2021

For years, we’ve been dealing with audience response systems one way or another: polling systems, Q&A, and now, we have the real-time chat.” And there were very weird plugins for PowerPoint where you could bring up the polling and embed them in your PowerPoints.” Another one is Hio Hovr.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 27, 2024

According to a Q4 2023 Gallup poll asking managers what changes occurred in their organizations last year, 64 percent said employees were “given additional job responsibilities,” 51 percent cited “the restructuring of teams,” and 42 percent reported “budget cuts.” It’s not just what they can do for us.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 15, 2020

The program featured a smooth mix of different formats, including PowerPoint, livestreaming, and videos, she added, with Sli.do More than 300 questions were sent by participants, and polls and surveys were sprinkled throughout during the program, which also featured a moderator and a DJ.

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Event Leadership Institute

JUNE 18, 2020

Engagement There are many ways attendees can interact – or engage – with your content, including polls, surveys, live chats, and question submissions. Webcasts generally are designed to reach large audiences and tend to focus on speakers and panel discussions instead of visual aids like PowerPoint.

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Expo Pass

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Meetingpulse gives you the power to engage your audience with real time polling, Q&A, surveys, and quizzes, all while presenting or meeting live. It’s an especially good tool if you want something similar to a powerpoint, or google slides, but significantly more interesting and fresh looking. Meetingpulse. Categories. Exhibitors.

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SevenEvents

MARCH 5, 2023

Guests can send messages to other delegates, create detailed user profiles and participate in polls, all of which can leverage delegate engagement. Get better cameras, branded backdrops, and great mics, and bump up the quality of your PowerPoints. Graphics and great video quality will keep attendees glued to the screen.

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Eventinterface

JANUARY 23, 2017

Planners collect an immense amount of content from conference speakers, including PowerPoint presentations, handouts and worksheets. Attendees can take meeting notes, interact with other attendees in the session and even engage in real-time with the speaker by asking questions, or participate in polls and surveys via their mobile device.

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Connect Your Meetings

MAY 3, 2017

It allows them to interact with the audience through live polls and Q&As within their sessions. The post 3 Presentation Tools That Aren’t PowerPoint appeared first on Connect Association. Encourage educators and speakers to incorporate Slido into their presentations.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 23, 2019

Ban PowerPoint Forever . Let’s face the music, PowerPoint is archaic. In a world where it’s difficult to keep attention PowerPoint or any slide-based presentation for that matter will not do the trick. For example, the leader could ask the audience to vote on topic 1 or topic 2 by using a polling app.

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Event Farm

OCTOBER 11, 2016

If you work in events, it comes as no surprise that being an event planner has been voted in numerous polls as one of the most stressful jobs. We’ve all been onsite where the speaker rehearsals for a conference go on too long, and just before the attendees are due to come the whole PowerPoint presentation needs changing.

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Event Leadership Institute

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Just because an audience is virtual doesn ‘ t mean they ‘ re willing to partak e in a parade of endless PowerPoint presentation s. Between content sections, use interactive moments, like Q&A , poll s , or prize drawing s, to hel p attendees fully digest content without feeling overwhelmed. . “ . .

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Bizzabo

APRIL 7, 2020

Features like group chat, one-to-one messaging, video conferencing, sharing and editing Word, PowerPoint, and Excel all help to accelerate collaboration and spark creativity. The second is offering a variety of options to participate in a live discussion through questions, polling, and fun ways to reinforce curated event content.

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GEVME

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

You do not need something complex, in many cases, even a simple PowerPoint presentation will do. Add real-time features like polls and chats during the streaming of the event. What is a School Event? While hosting a virtual school event, consider how you are going to present it to your audience.

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GEVME

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

You do not need something complex, in many cases, even a simple PowerPoint presentation will do. Add real-time features like polls and chats during the streaming of the event. What is a School Event? While hosting a virtual school event, consider how you are going to present it to your audience.

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Food and Beverage Events Event Ideas Venues 156

Expo Pass

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Most people who attend events – especially corporate seminars, workshops, and educational conferences – are used to sitting in a conference room and quietly listening to someone shuffle through a PowerPoint presentation; they may even have grown to expect that! You can also offer in-the-moment text polls and surveys.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 6, 2020

There are those medical and scientific events whose programs are rooted in the standard practice of one-way presentations — solo speakers who rely on poorly designed PowerPoint slides with large copy blocks in tiny fonts to drive home their points. Certainly, some scientific conferences are guilty as charged.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 10, 2020

Instead of a tiny talking head superimposed over a PowerPoint for an hour, try interviews. Instead of polls, try trivia games. If you’re offering Q&A or polling in person, how can your audience members participate? See also : 6 Great Virtual Meeting Icebreakers. Same thing on the education side.

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Eventsforce

AUGUST 12, 2020

Interestingly, a recent poll from Eventsforce found that 53% of event planners don’t feel they have the skills they need to run successful online events. Less of the 40-minute Powerpoint presentations – and more shorter panel discussions with plenty of breaks and lots of different opportunities for attendees to engage with.

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Endless Events

JULY 25, 2018

Conference speakers should no longer rely solely on their PowerPoint presentations. More than ever, attendees want to try new things and feel like they can add their thoughts and perspectives to the learning process, this is why crowdsourcing and live polls are so important. Live Polling. And we aren’t talking slideshows.

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Converve

JUNE 9, 2016

The tool allows the display of polls where the audience can submit questions (and, where applicable, can be moderated), they can ‘like’ questions and thereby prioritize them, and the tool can show tweets (e.g. By means of the Slido Switcher, interactive polls and questions can be easily integrated in Powerpoint, Keynote or Prezi.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 11, 2018

The speaker drones on, reading from their notecards or plain white powerpoint slides. Stage a live poll. There are a few ways you can hold a live poll. Or, maybe you stage an online poll. Try these six audience engagement techniques at your next event. Want audience engagement? Then ask for their opinion.

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Expo Pass

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Other reasons we think this is a great choice for organizers, is that Ink Factory is so much different than a normal Zoom or Powerpoint. But a big one is that it’s just plain fun watching someone draw. Seeing art in motion is always captivating. Every drawing becomes an original piece of content that perfectly captures the meeting or event.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 15, 2018

If you want to include added extras at your conference like audience polling and live social feeds (e.g. Off-the-shelf products like PowerPoint can be great tools to use for this type of projection. In fact, we’re excited by the idea of replacing gobos with projectors and a PowerPoint-created logo. Visual elements.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 21, 2017

It includes advice on room setups, voting techniques and even ways to display complex information such as graphs and charts using zero PowerPoint slides—just the bodies in the room. It was easy to use, and allows not only for polling but also open-ended Q&A. Sometimes, however, you can’t break out of the old seating tropes.

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Eventsforce

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Event planners look at session attendance, session polling, social media buzz, post-event surveys and so on. In Zoom Rooms, there are new capabilities for mixed reality virtual backgrounds and support for videos and Microsoft PowerPoint files (which joins existing JPEG support).

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Tech Event Tech Speakers Technology 83

Converve

JUNE 9, 2016

The tool allows the display of polls where the audience can submit questions (and, where applicable, can be moderated), they can ‘like’ questions and thereby prioritize them, and the tool can show tweets (e.g. Glisser covers the same scope of functions as Slido: Polls, questions, feedback, tweets. Simple Back-Office. So far, so good.

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Hubilo Blog

JUNE 18, 2019

Attendees can gain experience, play games, take part in live quizzes and polls, win badges, and earn recognition. Instead of giving the old-school PowerPoint presentations, gamification can be used to spice up the speaker presentations. These attribute of gamification draws attention and refines on the attendee experiences.

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Arlo Training & Events Software

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Make use of the free tools that come with video conferencing software such as polls, voting, whiteboards and breakout rooms. Don’t rely on a boring series of PowerPoint slides. It can be as simple as adding a short quiz or a poll at the end of the hour during a live online training session. Collaboration tools.

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Socio Events

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In the beginning, we all pivoted to virtual events, but we quickly grew tired of the flat PowerPoints, one-way discussions, and hour-long sessions that dominated 2020. Event content has evolved considerably from the early days of the pandemic.

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Marketing 2022 Social Media Events 52

Endless Events

MAY 23, 2018

No one wants to sit in a room and listen to a speaker with a monotone voice and watch a boring powerpoint. By crowdsourcing and live polling, you are allowing your attendees to take ownership, not just sit back and watch. Live polling adds another level of engagement because it asks people to actively participate.

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Arlo Training & Events Software

MARCH 19, 2020

Test your internet connection Test your audio Test your visual slides, if you’re using them Test your power cables and check that your device is going to be set-up within reach of a working powerpoint Ask any guest presenters to practice dialling in Turn off all of your background apps and notifications, and check that there are no pop-ups or distractions (..)

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Arlo Training & Events Software

MARCH 19, 2020

Test your internet connection Test your audio Test your visual slides, if you’re using them Test your power cables and check that your device is going to be set-up within reach of a working powerpoint Ask any guest presenters to practice dialling in Turn off all of your background apps and notifications, and check that there are no pop-ups or distractions (..)

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Arlo Training & Events Software

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The best webinar software has built-in features to engage the audience – such as polls, breakout rooms, Q&A, quizzes and surveys and Paul, from Parallel Project Training, encourages training providers to do whatever they can to “make the subject come alive”, including using animation, video clips and live screen capture.

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Endless Events

MARCH 10, 2020

And so I actually encourage our speakers to use their own PowerPoint template with their contact information, their social media hashtags. We have polls to engage people” “So I’m actually just working with another company called Pickles where I can have people draw a picture of how they’re feeling.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 6, 2020

In terms of other insights from the audience, 81 percent who were polled saw themselves moving to more online events in the future, and they named the top two most-daunting challenges of developing virtual events as engaging the audience (36 percent) and the potential for encountering technical issues (34 percent). How do you create a tribe?

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Slido

MARCH 11, 2020

That is, how they access Slido, ask questions, and participate in interactive activities such as live polls, surveys, and quizzes. You will have the Slido Present mode displayed on the screen with the questions and the poll results so your attendees can follow the discussion. Choose an option that best suits your needs and use case. #1:

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