Audience Response systems and providers - Lamesha, Ginger, Liz, Jacque

Submitted by: Lamesha, Ginger, Liz and Jacque

Audience response providers vary in the services they offer. These services can range from interactive meeting activities for participants to follow up evaluations and data.

By using these services meeting planners can help create an interactive meeting that keeps participants engaged by using audience polling devices and other audio visual techniques. Following a meeting, audience response providers can evaluate participant responses to create invaluable data that will help planning more effective meetings.

Audience response providers have varying ways to collect and extract the specific data you need to focus and determine your meeting’s success and be able to make decisions on what direction you should take on future meetings you are planning.

There is an incredible array of response providers ranging from those that offer simple online polling or web based survey tools to those that can come to your meeting venue and set up very advanced AV and interactive live meeting response measuring systems. Some provide the data for your own analysis and others have complete interactive sites where they provide complete evaluation, data, and information management for your use and convenience.

Short List of Audience Response Providers:

Audience Response Place – http://www.audienceresponseplace.com/
Custom Insight – http://www.customeinsight.com/
Extreme Meetings – http://www.theextremegroup.com/
Interactive Meetings – http://www.interactivemeetings.com/
Opinion Finder – http://www.opinionfinder.com/
Option Technologies Interactive – http://www.optiontechnologies.com/
Survey Design & Analysis – http://www.survey-design-and-analysis.com/
Survey Connect – http://www.surveyconnect.com/
Survey Console – http://www.surveyconsole.com/
Turning Point – http://www.turningtechnologies.com/
Zoomerang – http://www.zoomerang.com/
Zoom Panel – http://www.zoompanel.com/


We already use an audience response system in our meetings; we use Questar evaluation forms that completed by our participants. The information is scanned and managed on a website where we have access to data that provides a profile on our participants and an evaluation of our presenter, materials, and the meeting as a whole.