Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to share audience questions and comments throughout your presentation? One of our users came up with a nifty suggestion to do just that with a crawler feature that we recently added to our (free text polls) [http://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/new]. The crawler displays audience questions and comments at the bottom of your slide through-out your presentation, just like how news headlines are displayed at the bottom of the screen on CNN or stocks are shown on Bloomberg.

 

Adding a crawler to your presentation works something like this:

 

1. Add a free text poll to your PowerPoint master slide.

2. Change the visual effect to "Ticker" and tweak the settings to your tastes.

3. Ask your audience to text their questions and comments during your presentation and they'll be displayed on-screen.

 

Brad explains in detail how to add a crawler to your PowerPoint presentation in the video below:

 

If you're worried about snarky comments appearing on screen, you can always turn on (moderation)[http://www.polleverywhere.com/features/moderation] and have somebody preventing those from displaying on-screen.

 

Try it out and let us know how it goes. If enough people like it we'll have our engineers make this easier to integrate into your presentation.

 

As always, if you are using Poll Everywhere in some interesting or creative way, let us know about it.