Smart Meetings: R. Clark Associates, Inc. now offers interactive audience polling to seamlessly gather critical information from your audience.
Traverse City, MI (January 2, 2008) - You’re only 30 minutes into your PowerPoint presentation, and you’re starting to lose them! As you glance back and forth between your notes and the 57th slide projected high above your shoulder, you see them out of the corner of your eye: a yawn directly ahead, a doodler over to the right, the nerve!-is that your veteran salesman curled up in the corner with his eyes closed?
Without a jaw-dropping dance routine or squirt gun, it can be an difficult task to keep all of your presentation attendees fully engaged. And who can blame them, really? Modern technology and changing media platforms render us with measurably shorter attention spans, and some large presentations are reminiscent of those first-year college seminars that so easily sent us off to happy daydreams of the weekend’s exploits.
But, what if it wasn’t just you or your boss holding the PowerPoint clicker? What if somehow everyone could be incorporated into the show? With an audience polling system incorporated into your presentation, each attendee is given a response card that allows them to do such things as instantaneously respond to opinion polls, rate or vote on proposals or simply prove attendance.
The devices are radio-frequency wireless, so it does not require line-of-sight, and can be used up to 450 feet away. The receiver itself, a simple USB device you plug into the side of your laptop, can handle input from up to 1,000 response cards. Planning a conference for 2008? No problem. Just contact R. Clark Associates, Inc. (RCAI) and they’ll get you plugged in so you can really connect with your audience, giving them the ability to participate in turn increasing their attentiveness, making it more interactive than just sitting there watching.
Interactive audience polling systems are proving popular with many different types of clients (corporate, government, education, etc.). The benefits include providing a significantly higher level of engagement, the ability to monitor and assess participant comprehension, and instant information gathering for reporting.
Convert your next sleeper-seminar into something exciting and useful! RCAI offers a service which allows the following: first, a free quote, and secondly, a personalized presentation with strategic polling questions that includes an R. Clark expert to assist you with the technology. RCAI can be reached at 231.941.8505.
RCAI is a Traverse City, Michigan based planning and landscape architecture consulting firm providing land planning, landscape architecture, construction management, entitlement and visioning services to the public and private sector for almost thirty years. R. Clark Associates, Inc. is located at 3335 W. South Airport Rd., Suite 9 B, Traverse City, MI 49684, (231) 941-8505 or online at www.rclarkassociates.com.