SURVEYS, CHAT, Q&A AND NOW POLLS, TOO

ThinkTech wants to use all the functionality in Zoom that will enhance our webinar productions.  Up to this point, that included the Survey function at the end, asking attendees to give us feedback on the production values, speakers and content.  This helps us evaluate how it went and what we can do to improve the next one.

And of course we do Chat.  Our engineers communicate with speakers and attendees by the Zoom Chat function and allow them to talk with each other and with us on issues and comments that may arise during the program.  And we use Chat to keep moderators and speakers current on how much time they have used and how much time is left for their presentations and until the next evolution in the program.  This has proven to be very helpful.

The Zoom Q&A function has become more and more important to our programs.  We reserve the Q&A space for attendees to pose questions.  The moderator monitors those questions, vets them, sometimes rewrites them and sometimes shelves them for later  For the ones that are appropriate, the moderator will pose them to the panel and get answers that will respond to the attendee questions.  This gives attendese a way to interact with the panel, expand the scope of the discussion and add value to the conversation. 

Most recently, we have started focusing on Polls.  The Zoom Pool function allows us to prepare good questions to pose to attendees and panelists in advance, and at the stroke of a key present those questions to have them answer anonymously and then compile and present their answers.  The questions can be edited on the fly to comport with the content and discussion.  This is a very effective interaction in that it allows meaningful questions, gets anonymous answers, compiles and presents those answers to everyone, and makes a record of the questions and answers for the video and post production analysis.  

We will be using all these functions, and especially the Poll function in our Burning National Issues, Legal Chicken Legal Egg program on September 30, 2002 (you can register for this on thinktechhawaii.com), and also in our Annual Practicing Law Institute Court Appointed Arbitrator Program at on November 4, 2002, all with a view to improve interaction and impact in these webinar programs and make our webinar productions the best they can be.

Stay tuned for more ThinkTech Webinars, better and better.




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