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Following that last post, I did a quick trawl around the Web and came up with some interesting options for Audience Response Systems. There seems to be a pretty large market of vendors selling wireless devices that can be used for anything from conferences to TV shows. According to Wikipedia, here are some advantages:

• Improve attentiveness
• Increase knowledge retention
• Poll anonymously
• Track individual responses
• Display polling results immediately
• Speed-up decision making
• Foster individual ownership of group decisions
• Create an interactive and fun learning environment
• Gather data for reporting and analysis
• Confirm audience understanding of key points immediately

Cool huh? Obviously, I’m not interested in making any Audience Response System sales, but it’s good to know what’s out there.