This technology allows event organizers to gather live audience responses and feedback via text messaging. Attendees can opt-in to receive text updates from organizers. Organizers can then send polls, questions, and updates to attendees in real time. Polls can be multiple choice, free text, or goal-based. Responses are anonymous unless attendees include identifying information. Organizers pay a setup fee plus hourly programming costs and can view compiled reports of poll responses. There are nominal costs to attendees for text messages but responses can also be done online. Polls can be set to one response per person or allow multiple.

1. Live audience response via text Interact with your audience in a whole new way… This technology replaces expensive proprietary audience response systems with a stylish web-based tool. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, etc. And because it works internationally with the web (or Twitter), its simplicity and flexibility are compelling.

5. Reporting How can I identify participants by name, phone number, or other ID? The tools’ reporting function lets you match up a participant's answers across multiple polls. For example, we could make a free text poll that asks participants to submit their name, an organization, their cell phone number, or any other identifying information. Then ask other multiple choice or free text questions as usual. By adding the identifying free text poll and any other polls to a report, we can see how each person answered each question. Each and every poll can be downloaded and sorted as needed. This file is in Comma-Separated Values format (.CSV) format, which can be opened by any spreadsheet application like Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, or Google Spreadsheets. Reporting

6. FAQ’s How much does it cost? $1000 setup/consultation fee (per event), plus poll programming is $75/hour. Dedicated onsite staff is recommended for full poll management. Is it costly to participants? There is standard text messaging costs for participants, but this cost is nominal even if they lack a text messaging plan. If they don’t want to use texts, they can go online and cast votes at http://poll4.com…however this disables our ability to track who the responder is. How many times can I respond? Polls can be set up to allow only one response from each participant or as many as they like. Can I control the responses? Yes. A ‘moderator’ function can be turned on that prompts you to approve each comment, avoiding profanity or inappropriate audience responses. Will I get spam? No. Participants will never receive any kind of spam. Is my poll publicly viewable? Your poll's question (but not your results) is indexed by search engines unless you disable this setting in the Settings tab. With indexing turned off, your polls are private unless you share a secret poll URL with others, or embed the poll widget in a website.