OHSU TurningPoint Training

I'm currently sitting at a little coffee shop getting ready to deliver ResponseCards to an OHSU doctor in SW Portland. How is that for personal service? We'll be covering some of the basic features of TurningPoint during our meeting. Topics that we will be touching on will be creating and editing audience response questions, using countdown timers, setting up the receiver and ...
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Audience Response System At The Scottsdale Resort Conference Center

We just shipped an audience response system to the Scottsdale Resort and Conference Center. It sure would have been nice to accompany those 230 ResponseCards down to warm, sunny Arizona. If you are planning on renting an audience response system for your meeting and aren't sure how to get the most out of it, read up on some of our ARS best practices.
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When Not To Skimp on A/V

I had the pleasure of helping a friend, Alan Kleinfeld, put together a quick article on what audio visual equipment you shouldn't try to cut corners on at your meeting in an attempt to save a little bit of money. So, I took off my audience response system hat for a second, slipped on my audio visual hat and did a little brain dump for Alan. Not to spoil the surprise for you ...
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OHSU Youth Health Forum

Tomorrow we will be making the short trip down to Salem, OR to finalize the audience response system and audio visual details for the Youth Health Forum. This is the first time that this group will be employing an audience response system at one of their events and I am honored that they choose ARS Rental to support their meeting. Now all we need is the weather in the east ...
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Full-Service ARS Job in San Diego

We just finished up a 2 day audience response job at an pharmaceutical investigator meeting in San Diego, CA. They made great use of the audience response system and on the second day even utilized some on-the-fly ARS questions. There was a great response to the music used on the countdown timers on the interactive questions. It went so far as the group passing out candy to peo...
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New Version of TurningPoint Released (TurningPoint 4.2.4)

Turning Technologies released a new version of TurningPoint yesterday. There aren't too many significant changes to the program and the bugs that are reported as being fixed aren't things that I've ever experienced. Probably most importantly TurningPoint 4.2.4 includes support for a new product called PresenterWare. PresenterWare is an app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod. It ...
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Which version of TurningPoint do you use at your events?

If you are anything like me, you probably keep all of you software up to date. Knowing that I'm missing out on some shiny new features or software interface changes usually forces me into software updates as soon as they are available. This is what happened with TurningPoint 4.2.3 release. I downloaded and installed as soon as I saw it was available for download. I don't lik...
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Learn How To Use Advanced Features of TurningPoint (Video)

I'm always trying to figure out new ways to engage audiences with an audience response system while at the same time collecting valuable data for my clients. Whether it's an interactive ARS game or simply mixing in interactive questions to keep meeting attendees on their toes, it's hard to go wrong. As it turns out there are others out there that thinking about this stuff too. ...
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Free TurningPoint Training On Effective Use Of ARS and Best Practices

Turning Technologies will be offering a free training webinar on November 4th, 2010. Audience response thought leaders,Kevin Cope, Philip Bradley and Charles Jeter will be sharing their insights, lessons learned and personal experiences regarding the effective use of ARS at meetings and training sessions. This data packed session will include the following topics: (more&...
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