Mobile Polling allows audiences to provide live feedback and vote on choices via their cell phones. Polling can be conducted live during a meeting format, as with keypads, or among dispersed respondents.
Mobile Polling is an eParticipation tool that allows people to conveniently submit votes via text message from their cell phones or a mobile web page on their smart phone.
This technology can be extremely effective in meeting formats, used in place of handheld keypads. This enables meeting facilitators to collect feedback, prioritize options or quiz audiences live, but also enables people to vote from remote locations at the same time. Most often, this technology is linked to a digital display providing a graphic correlation to the results. Mobile Polling can also be used over longer time periods and not in conjunction with meetings to collect feedback on specific questions.
The questions formats offered by Mobile Polling services are somewhat limited (numerical votes only), but the tool can be used to collect important feedback and opinions, prioritize choices, or quiz an audience.
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. There are numerous services available offering mobile polling, with varying costs, support levels, and options. Costs are typically very reasonable for small numbers of respondents (under 100) and rise with larger numbers.
Post new comment