Mobile Polling (mPolls)
Summary
mPolls is a polling service that allows audiences to provide live feedback during meetings via their cell phones.
Tool Description
Offered by the PlaceMatters Group, Mobile Polling is an eParticipation tool that allows meeting attendees to conveniently submit votes via text message from their cell phones or a mobile web page on their smart phone. This enables meeting facilitators to collect feedback, prioritize options or quiz audiences live during meetings and presentations. Most often, this technology is linked to a digital display providing a graphic correlation to the results.
Mobile Polling is intuitive to set up and run and can greatly enhance civic engagement projects by capturing the outcomes of round table discussions and prioritizing the results. mPolls is similar to the keypad polling tool, though it can be more convenient because of the ubiquity of the cell phone.
Skills needed
Setting up an eParticipation meeting utilizing Mobile Polling requires the assistance of the developers at PlaceMatters. After their initial setup and training, using mPolls for community meetings is easy and intuitive.
Summary of Costs
Please contact PlaceMatters (see related organizations) for an estimate on using their eParticipation tools in your next meeting.
Strengths
- mPolls is an easy-to-use technology tool that provides instant feedback which can greatly increase the depth and participation of community meetings
Limitations
- While increasingly common, there are still community members without cell phones, and a number with mobile devices that do not text message
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svannostrand
Last Updated: October 14, 2011, 11:17 am
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