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Audience Response Services
Provides Discussion Of Audience Response System Rentals and Audience Voting
System Rentals For Interactive Meetings |
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| Cellular and Other Audience
Response Systems |
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| There are a couple of technologies that
can complement your Audience Response service. They are, cellular and local area
network voting systems. Currently, the only company we
know that is offering LAN voting is
Turning Technologies.
Their network based software can provide you with day-to-day
opinion polling from any desktop, notebook, or PDA on your wired
or wireless network. |
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| Users open a 'virtual keypad' on their machine,
and can now respond to questions just as though they had a
physical keypad in hand. The system is very easy to use,
and even offers a virtual instructor keypad for the classroom. |
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If however, the people you need to communicate
with are spread around the country, or even around the world,
cellular may be the answer.
It is now possible through SMS text messaging technology to send
a message or a question to thousands of cellular users around
the world simultaneously, and to view a graph of votes as they
come in, using nothing more than a web browser. |
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| This extremely powerful communications tool is
very simple, and cost effective. Our network partner,
Audience Response Rentals dot Com offers this service which
is actually provided by a company in Tel Aviv called
Mobile
Feedback. All you need is an account on the
system, which our partner will set up for you. |
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| The system will need a list of cell phone
numbers that you wish to communicate with. There are a few
ways of doing this. First, you can ask your user base to
dial an assigned phone number, using their cell phone. The
server will automatically add them to your 'guest' list.
Second, you can upload a database of names and phone numbers.
Third, you can enter the information from an 'add participant'
page. |
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| Once the names are in, you can start adding
questions. Simply type them in the 'add questions' form.
You can send the question immediately, later on command, or
later at a specified time. In any case, when you send it,
your page changes to a graph with no data, yet. |
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| The message is routed via internet backbone to
the appropriate country. There, it jumps onto the cellular
network and automatically finds its way to user's phone as a
standard text message! |
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| The user replies to the message by entering the
number of his choice, and sends it. His reply is sent back
over the cellular network to the internet backbone and on to the
server in Tel Aviv, where results are gathered. And
as they are gathered, the graph that you are viewing is updated,
so you see the votes within seconds of their receipt. |
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| Amazingly, it can take less than 20 seconds
from the time you send the question until the time it reaches
the cell phone, half-way around the world. This depends
entirely upon cell network traffic and individual carrier
policy. For example, AT&T wireless can take as long as one
and a half minutes to deliver the message. Even so, this
is a wonderful tool. |
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| You are not limited to sending questions
either. You can send a simple one-way message, "our office
will be closed today due to inclement weather" to
thousands of employees in under one minute. And they'll
get the message, even if they've started out for the office already. |
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| For more information, visit our network partner,
Audience Response Rentals dot Com. |
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