Audience Response System Review Series

In an effort to keep you up-to-date and informed about the latest and greatest that the audience response industry has to offer. I'll be posting audience response system reviews, keypad hardware performance reports and my take on the performance / flexibility / usability of the different audience response software out there. The first review will be of ResponseCard RF (RCR...
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How To Format Your Audience Response Questions To Look Great

Make your audience response questions visually appealing by matching them to your slide template. If you use TurningPoint, there isn’t much that you can’t customize on your question slides because the objects that it places on your slides are in fact PowerPoint objects. Follow these simple steps and your questions will look better in no time. I can't promise that you'll be crea...
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The Danger of Using Foil Labels on ResponseCard RF

While it might seem like a no-brainer when dealing with radio frequency technology, absolutely do not use metal/foil labels to identify your Turning Technologies ResponseCards or ResponseCard Receivers. The effective range of your system will be greatly reduced and you might not receive responses submitted. Back in the early days RF audience response, circa 2006, I worked f...
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Using Countdown Timers To Keep Your Meeting On Schedule

One of the worst things that I can think of is a meeting that has trouble sticking to the agenda. With an audience response systems, now you can at least keep the polling on track by using countdown timers. I'm not sure that I can 100% explain it, but when time is ticking away on a screen, meeting attendees seem to just get the idea that now is not the time endlessly debate a p...
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