Online survey solutions provider MeetingMetrics has introduced Session Needs Survey, an innovative pre-meeting survey, which is specifically designed to help attendees express their education session preferences directly to individual session presenters.
The session needs survey works by first collecting important data regarding attendees’ session preferences such as learning objectives, learning style, activities and interests. With the help of collected data, it creates specially formatted report and sends it ...
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Poll your audience in real time by downloading a slide from the Poll Everywhere site and inserting it into your PowerPoint file. Audience members can respond to questions by texting or going to your customized PollEvereywhere web page all from their phones, tablets or computers. Results are almost instantanous and display live on the PowerPoint slide being shown during your event or learning program. You can use both poll questions as well as open ended questions.
Now you can engage your in person audience and inc...
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The Freeman Technology Suite provides meeting planners with six solutions in one integrated suite. Each tool has been designed to serve the specific needs of exhibitors, event producers and meeting planners from one location. Passport allows graphic project management. Concierge Elite allows show managers and exhibitors connect before, during and after the event. Presentation Management manages speaker presentation materials and Site Line allows meeting planners to check in on rooms and activities from an iPad. F...
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Site visits and venue assessments are exhausting. You're touring multiple properties in one day. As the hours stretch on, your notepad fills up with information on wifi, amenities, available meeting space, square footage...and it all just blurs together until you want to lie down and take a big old nap. How often have you tried to go back and decipher your notes to make decisions, thinking "There has got to be an easier way to do this."
Now there is, thanks to th...
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It's a busy week for awards, with two "top 10" lists guiding professionals to useful technology. Here are the highlights of lists from EVENTagist and eventplanning.com.
The Top 10 Very Smart Phone Apps
EVENTagist is a community of event and meeting professionals from across the globe, led by Engage365 member Stefania Conti-Vecchi. EVENTagist is currently attending TechFest2012, a London conference of event professionals. It used the occasion to release its "Top 10 Mobile Apps for Meetings and Events."
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It's easy to do an event calendar in an smartphone app, so app-makers face a challenge: what else can their software do? EventLink and Core-Apps answer the question by focusing on communications before and during the event.
(EventLink and Core-Apps appear as separate publishers in the iTunes app store, but are slightly different brands of the same company. Their software has been functionally identical, so we're reviewing the apps together.)
These apps offer the features you should expect from an event...
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