Corbin Ball and David Nour recently presented their Top Ten Technology Trends Facing Meeting Planners for 2010. The Extreme Group is proud to have both of our two major service offerings included in the list; mobile platforms and audience response systems.
While everyone reading this knows that we offer audience response systems, some of you may not know about our mobile platforms, called Total Interactive Events. Our mobile offerings are like no others available in the industry, and it works with over 99% of phones that are sold today. No creating expensive apps, no compatibility issues for your attendees and no extra equipment rental or purchases necessary. Below we will go into more detail about what you can do with our Total Interactive Events.
One of the questions that we get from clients when they call in is, “what’s new in audience response?” Of course we are always developing new game shows based on the latest television game shows, but there is more. This past year we also unveiled our latest keypads. We now have a keypad for whatever your needs. If you need the most reliable keypads on the market, we have those, there is never a guess whether your vote was counted or whether it was accurate, a digital display lets you know. If you need a light-weight keypad that attendees can carry around for a weeklong meeting, we have those as well. Rest assured we always have the most advanced software available, we continue to use several different packages to ensure that we can match your exact needs.
While we continue to remain on the cutting edge of audience response technology, our Total Interactive Events offerings are far ahead of anyone else in our industry. Time does not permit me to go into detail on all of the features that we can now offer you, but here are some of the highlights:
1. Digital Signage – Have you ever had to move a dinner from outside to inside because of weather? How did you let your attendees know? Now you can send a message to all of their cell phones instantly and update them about schedule changes up to the minute.
2. Emergency Communication – Do you have a plan for when the unthinkable happens? If you have attendees on the golf course and inclement weather is moving toward them, can you let them know? How about your attendees are spread out all over town and there is some kind of emergency situation at the hotel, how do you let them know about a different place to rendezvous? We were recently able to get word out to several thousand campers spread out over 115 acres that thunder storms were moving in between 4-6AM.
3. Text to screen – While showcasing our text your question or comment to screen technology, a planner came up and told us her horror story about having a live Twitter feed on the screen. You can imagine her embarrassment when the attendees mocked the speaker and he wanted to know why everyone was laughing. That is why our text to screen service is completely monitored; you won’t have to face that humiliated speaker, heaven forbid it be the CEO.
4. Text to presenter – Sometimes you want the presenter to see the questions and not the audience. We can provide that to you as well. In a recent meeting, a Executive Vice President was reading the questions to the CEO, even though the CEO could see the screen. When the EVP skipped over a question, the CEO addressed it, “I’m not going to skip over that question about the 401K plan.” The audience appreciated his honesty.
5. Voting – You can use cell phones to vote, however this is a very specific use. Please don’t think that you will get the same results voting over cell phones that you enjoy by using dedicated audience response technology. The results come in much slower and the dropout rate is much higher. However, there are times where you don’t need perfect voting, you just want a feel for the audience’s opinion and that is a great opportunity to use text voting.
6. Follow up after the meeting – Our system allows you to follow up with attendees post event. You can send them links to post event surveys, links for more information, and even marketing info for next year’s event.
At The Extreme Group, we were thrilled to hear Corbin and David say that two of our service offerings are among the top 10 for meeting planners in 2010. However, you don’t have to wait until 2010, we are still booking dates for the remainder of 2009.
If you have any questions about either our audience response systems or our Total Interactive Events, please give us a call at 813-964-8844.
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The entire audience enjoyed the texting feature, offered for the first time at Cornerstone, so much so, that when the message board came down, people booed.
"I think the audience really enjoyed it when we responded to specific messages that they sent in," said Alex Harris. 
audience created a whole new connection point with our audience.
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