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Archive for April 2010

Live polls and the election outcome

We’ve seen most of the UK broadcasters use a limited selection of voters and a live worm to show the changes in opinion during leader debates. Here at Live Talkback we’ve been running a live poll on what outcome people expect from the election next week - you can vote now and change the result … Continue reading »

BigotGate - the live reaction

Yesterday Gordon Brown made an on mic gaffe calling Gillian Duffy a “bigoted woman”. At Live Talkback we run an instant poll to see what people’s views were, and to contrast with the instant media reaction. We asked two questions: “Do you think Gillian Duffy is bigoted?” - 55% of people disagreed with Gordon Brown, … Continue reading »

Voting at the Demand Generation Summit

The Demand Generation Summit used Live Talkback for instant audience voting throughout the keynote sessions. See pictures of the event, including examples of Live Talkback being used here http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649

Keep coming back

With the amount of competition for people’s attention today it’s hard to imagine how we can ever capture anyone’s attention at all. This is true for Live Talkback’s customers - you need to both capture, and keep your audience’s attention. Some of our customers run events that they want to get people coming back to … Continue reading »

New release of Live Talkback

We’ve just made another release of the Live Talkback console and results screens. New goodies include: Better navigation in the results screen. All event/poll/slide navigation now takes place in a floating overlay, making it much easier to use under pressure on stage! Fixed issues with skin uploading that were affecting some users More coming soon!

Live Talkback passes 1/4 Million votes

Sometime in the last 24 hours the Live Talkback server pixies recorded the 250,000th vote by a user. Since we passed the 100,000 mark at the end of 2009 voting volumes have been steadily increasing, so the pixies are getting busier and busier.

What questions will get interaction?

Is it: Questions on what they have done? Questions about what they think? Predictions about what will happen? Read the above - what would you choose? When analysing polls run across multiple events on Live Talkback we see that prediction polls, whatever the event are popular with audiences. People like to give their view on … Continue reading »

New features in Console

We’ve just rolled out a new version of the console that customers use to manage their polls. This version adds drag-and-drop carousel creation, which completes and complements the new carousels feature recently released in the results screen. With Carousels you now have much more control over how the results of your polls are displayed to … Continue reading »

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