We’re all about having HiP events… 

Here at Poll Everywhere, we want to start off the year right, and in doing so, we wanted to take the time to look back and acknowledge some of the very cool events our clients have been having.  November marked an awesome month for us.  (Aside from the bliss of having second and third helpings of turkey and mashed potatoes) we were able to assist a leading PC manufacturer take their sales kick off, strategy and teaming event to a new level.  2,500 people from all over the world, a collection of top sales people and HP executives gathered in Las Vegas expecting to be wowed and pumped for the New Year.  Forget the stodgy conferences with stale pastries and tepid coffee, instead think sleek jumbo screens and the lean, mean, swimming machine Michael Phelps to get your engines roaring.  

We encourage our customers to think outside the box, and do something creative for their events.  HP wanted something a little more custom for their event and decided to utilize group polling to register their employees into teams.  Group polling is not a regular feature we offer, but anytime our clients want a custom job, we’re more than happy to oblige.  For HP, we were able to tailor their needs to produce the best possible option for their teaming event.  

Suffice it to say the 3 day event went off without a hitch, and we were happy to see our product be displayed in a very “bright lights, big city” type of way.  But more than that, it was exciting to see firsthand, people from more than 50 countries texting in their respective votes with cell phones from all over the world.  It was a large gathering of 2,500 people, but we were able to make mobile phones a medium for each and every person to have a voice at that conference.

 Poll Everywhere brings people together for a greater cause, whether it’s for education, awareness or business, and we hope we can do the same for you.  

 

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We see creative media come from our users and here's another one from Oliver Dreon posted on YouTube:

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We love it when we have something exciting to share. We are very thankful for our loyal supporters who love our product and spread the word. We listen to the suggestions sent to us and continually work to accommodate the needs of those who use our product on a regular basis. It’s our goal to make presenting as easy and seamless as possible. As a thank you, and to make your next event a little easier, we are introducing our newest baby, the Events feature.

We have often received comments from people who ask about using short keywords, like "1, 2, 3" for their multiple choice polls at events. Since these are in such high demand, we designate these as premium keywords and try to play keyword traffic cop. We’re happy to tell you that this will no longer be the case if you use our events feature. Events let our users pare down the keywords to very short one or two characters.

Here’s a little "How to…" for our Event’s Feature:

Check the polls you want to use in your Presentation and group them together, and name the Group by clicking the Edit Button.

While you are still in Edit Mode, there should be a line that says "Change this group into an Event (?)" Click on that button and click "Ok" when it prompts you to do so.

Type a keyword for your Event. We will let you know if the Event keyword has already been taken.

After you have given your Event a name click on any one of your polls under that Event. You will see instructions on the top of your poll that will say "If you haven’t joined this session, text "EVENTKEYWORD" to 99503.

You will notice that your multiple choice question keywords will have changed to "1, 2, 3…"

When you run your event, instruct your audience members to join the event by texting the event keyword to 99503. After they have joined the Event they will be able to use those short keywords to vote. Another new feature – if the poll allows multiple votes from one person, you can separate you answers with a space and we’ll receive both!

We’re really excited about this feature as it allows our power users to make participation even easier for their audience. A short one or two digit keyword is much easier to text in than a 5 digit. We hope you try this new feature at your next event and if you have any feedback for us, please be sure to email us at

questions@polleverywhere.com. Happy Presenting!

 

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We loved the engagement and interactivity of your product. Our students were appreciative of our efforts using your software. We do not let the students use cell phones during the school day - they actually have to pay $25 if it is seen by a teacher. That said, they really appreciated the opportunity to use them, and we appreciated the fact that they were being used for an educational purpose.

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I found this awesome article today that talks about the benefit of Poll Everywhere as a learning tool and learned that it actually deters students from texting their friends. It was also nice to see how students appreciated that they didn't have to pay $50 for an old school hardware clicker.

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We recently released three features that are sure to be crowdpleasers.

Tidy Up. Group Your Polls.

All accounts (Free and Premuim) can do a little housekeeping by grouping polls. This is really helpful for categorizing polls, or just hiding the old ones you don't want to delete.

You can group your Polls, name those groups, collapse them to stow them away, and drag polls to move them between the groups.

Premium accounts - we have two tasty treats for you.

Enhanced Logos

 First, you can now align your logos. If you center align, we'll use the original image size, which opens some creative options.

Audience Maps

In our Advanced Reporting, you can combine multiple polls in single report - now we let you map those responses on a US map by area code.

Just hover over a state to see how many responses came from that state.

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We've just launched Poll Everywhere cellular service in Ireland! If you already have a Poll Everywhere account, you can switch over to our Irish long code by logging into https://www.polleverywhere.com/profile/coverage_area and selecting "Ireland" from our "International Text Messaging" screen.

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We just posted a position for a Ruby Software Engineer: http://www.polleverywhere.com/jobs Because SOMEONE has to make the best SMS and Twitter polling tool out there so that Fox can keep proving the bias of it's viewership:

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