Overview of Episode #10. The following topics are covered:

• The best way to open and a meeting and keep participants engaged.
• Meeting and training tool: Poll Everywhere.
• Interview with Poll Everywhere Product Manager Steve Farrelly.
• How Facilitator Linda Duncan has seen Poll Everywhere be used.
• See full shownotes here.
• Contact Suzie Here.

Topic #1: The best way to open and a meeting and keep participants engaged.

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• The best way to open any training session/meeting – I.E.E.I. (from Podcast #7: Six Tools for Better Meetings and Training Sessions )
• Book: Brain Rules by John Medina – "provide a hook every ten minutes…"
• One Answer: Poll Everywhere

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• What is Poll Everywhere? Poll Everywhere provides text message voting and audience Q&A, straight to your PowerPoint slide. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, t.v., print — everywhere. It works internationally via text, web, or Twitter. Our customers includes large and small companies, school and community organizations: Google, several global consulting firms, GE, McDonald's, and countless Kindergarten Idol competitions.
• Examples of how it can be used - from the Poll Everywhere website blog: Ways to use it- website: Icebreaker; Break up a marathon PowerPoint session; a pop quiz; team competitions.

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Topic # 2: Interview with Poll Everywhere Product Manager Steve Farrelly

• All about: Steve Farrelly - Product Manager, Chief Gaiety Officer and What's a Chief Gaiety Officer and Why Steve is posing with a deer head wearing headphones and mustache in his company photo.
• What it's like to work at Poll Everywhere.

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• What keeps people from using it.
• How trainers use this tool.

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• Super unique and unusual ways people use Poll Everywhere.

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• Clickable images feature – how this can be used.

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• What's coming next from Poll Everywhere.
• Steve tells us how to get started: "I recommend that everyone go to www.polleverywhere.com to try it out – it literally takes 30 seconds and there's no signup required. Get tips and best practices on the Poll Everywhere Blog and follow up on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Topic #3: How Facilitator Linda Duncan Has Seen Poll Everywhere Be Used.

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• How she's seen Poll Everywhere be used at community meetings
• How they used it to "create surprise and delight" at a very important meeting
• Contact Linda at: [email protected]

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