Quick Tally Clients Rave About Their Meetings

Several Divisions of the American Bar Association use Quick Tally’s Staffed on-site audience response services. This one was a large conference of 400 international attendees and it “was essential that the system worked perfectly”. The ABA used the voting technology to emphasize the points that were most relevant to the attendees. The program chair, after several phone calls, was open to our advice to abandon the “talking heads” and listen to the attendees. That made the difference between a lecture and successful interaction to discover and fulfilling the attendees level of expectations.

The American Marketing Association’s, Marketing Research Conference, used the audience participation provided by the introduction of the anonymity of expressing opinions by the use of voting devices (Clickers) and our Interactive Event Consulting to gather data and enhance participation at their interactive sessions.

Cushman & Wakefield, a global real-estate firm used the power of interactive audience response at their Strategic Planning Meeting to insure empowering the attendees had the ability to speak truthfully to issues. The National Marketing Director wrote that 96.2% of the attendees agreed on the value of Quick Tally’s contribution.

Longs Drug Stores used the power of instant tabulation and anonymity at their Annual Store Managers Meeting. They used the system to reach their goal as a catalyst for change. When the managers were asked about the value of the Quick Tally System, on a scale of 1-10, they indicated YES– with a mean score of 9. When polled about the value of having our services at their event, we have never been give any ration below 90.

Merv Griffin Companies Production of the television pilot “SAJAK”, used Quick Tally for studio audience interaction and voting, in what they described as “an unqualified success;  We were breaking new ground, and the system was absolutely critical to the concept of the show; We couldn’t have done it without you.”

Sun Microsystems Consumer and Mobil Systems used the audience response system for an All Hands Interactive Conference. Company-wide meetings tend to be large and impersonal; adding the interactive voting system provided the needed inclusion. Because there was short notice the equipment was driven 500 miles by the Quick Tally account executive.

The American Academy of Ophthalmology awarded the Annual Meeting contract for interactive audience polling to Quick Tally. It was for their first use of audience response technology for enhancing the effectiveness of their Scientific Education Courses at the event.  Since it was their first time doing this, we spoke to every presenter and help devise their use of interactivity to enhance learning. The success of this interactive ARS event  lead to working their General Assemblies. There was a landmark use of the technology to settle a contentious debate regarding allowing other related professionals (in addition to Ophthalmologists) into the academy. Being new to using audience response technology, they didn’t even think of using us for a solution—which was often the case with new users. After hearing the suggestion that they put it to a vote, the issue was resolves literally in a minute.

Cisco Systems used Quick Tally Consulting and Staffed On-site Interactive Service to engage separate events of audiences composed of employees, users groups and clients world-wide. In addition to collecting data, they wisely understood that because of their well-deserved reputation for graciousness and hospitality, they might receive lip service instead of truthful responses from their clients. In Paris Quick Tally’s reminded the moderator that because the attendees were anonymous he could ask questions that he would not in a face-to-face meeting. The single question he then asked launched a new product.

Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government partnered with Quick Tally on an ongoing basis supplying consulting and on-site technicians to enhance their two-day workshops for senior information technologies managers at their agencies: “… we have continued to use Quick Tally because our participants, and we, see the significant value it adds to the controversial issues… “.  Not unexpectedly they used the system as well as one would expect from a prestigious university.

On a personal note, I would like to express thanks the JFK School for their gift of a Harvard sweatshirt to replace mine from NYU. It was in a gift box in my hotel room with a note that they expected me to wear the proper attire when at Harvard.

Harvard University, Office of Information Technology held a campus-wide information technology study polling faculty and students. They gathered factual data the otherwise would only have been possible through time consuming personal interviews. Quick Tally provided equipment, consulting and on-site staff for their events.

The Massachusetts Bar Association had an event that was by design perfect for the use of Quick Tally’s Audience Voting System. It was designed to be a forum, which by definition is: a place, meeting, or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged. What better venue could there be for employing an instantaneous and anonymous voting system.

Late in the day at First Class Resort Hotel in Florida it takes a little more effort to compete with sand, surf and golf. The regional Sales Manager for Maxwell House Coffee had what he describes as “a very dry, late in the day presentation at their National Sales Meeting”. He used the Quick Tally audience polling system successfully to create a “humorous but impactful approach”.

Northern Telecom utilized the Quick Tally methodology of Breakthrough Technology to empower participants to unthreateningly breakthrough their perceptions and barriers to change regarding social issues. Audience response technology provides the opportunity to measure each individual’s opinions against the often misunderstood or unexamined facts.

Pacific Telesis had a large event of 1100 attendees at their Change Leadership Conference. There is understandably a certain amount of fear about using new technology. Quick Tally provided the guidance needed in the development of their interactive sessions to manage the executives many concerns.

Hilton Hotels use the power of audience response (Clickers) and our consulting to truly learn about themselves and their own realistic or unrealistic perception of their employees and customers. It’s what Quick Tally calls Breakthrough Communications.

Standard & Poor’s Vice President of Strategic Planning, Christopher Rousseau had an event made for the use of an anonymous voting (audience response) system. It was a forum: a place, meeting, or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged; and it presented a need for open discussions. That’s the difference, often not honored, between a meeting and a forum. Mr. Rousseau called our support “superb”, however much of the credit goes to his willingness to set up an event truly designed for listening and open discussion.

Synfusion hired Quick Tally Interactive Systems to support their engagement with the Library of Congress to enable libraries around the world to have 24/7 access to their digital reference service. The event used the audience response clickers for six separate sessions. They received “tremendous value from the impressions collected during the sessions.

The University of California, San Francisco called upon Quick Tally for its maiden voyage into using an audience response system for interactive medical education at a Symposium in Chicago. As a first time user, we guided them both before and at the event through every step of the development of the program to its facilitation.

Wells Fargo Bank originally used Quick Tally for an Annual Client Conference, which led to several other events. In addition to providing our On-site Staffed Services, we were also called upon to work late into the evening to assist in the preparation and refinement of the client’s interactive program and interactive questions. The program was a great success because it was, as the client put it: “a joint collaboration”.

BusinessWeek’s World-Wide Executive Forums used Quick Tally for Interactive Forums from Hong Kong to Boca Raton and lots of places in-between to empower their attendees to share information with each other, creating a unique opportunity to gather and publish information for their magazine. BusinessWeek realized that the really valuable information was with the audience of America’s leading CEOs and CFOs–not with the hired speakers. They learned the key to interactive meetings: listening!

Esso, Imperial Oil Canada, Used Quick Tally Interactive Systems anonymous audience polling (ARS Clickers and or Staffed On-site Service to enhance participation and interaction at their Conference. Canadians are well known for their politeness needed a little encouragement to be expressive or critical. The anonymity provided by the use of audience response voting devices enabling them to express their true opinions in front of their peers.

The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security and Quick Tally were integral parts of a series of meetings, beginning weeks after 9-11, of nationwide events for the United States Secret Service and the National Security Agency regarding preparedness of American business for electronica sabotage.

The CXO Advisory Group public sector perspectives conference in Richmond Virginia used the Quick Tally interactive polling services as an essential tool to involve all of the executives at the event in order to know what their peers think as a group and how they fit into the group’s opinions. CXO and Quick Tally partnered on several events.

PeopleSoft, Inc. a provider of human resource management systems, Financial Management Solutions, supply chain management, customer relationship management, and enterprise performance recognized the power of using an interactive response system with its speed and anonymity for human resources training and development.

American Express Company used Quick Tally’s audience voting technology for the American Express Banker’s Aspiration-based Planning Process. The voting indicated strong consensus around a clear direction for the bank that many suspected was the consensus view, but that discussion alone could not confirm. The use of ARS Clickers and the anonymity it provides made the difference.

Business Development Inc. Marketing Partner Forum declared “when our expectations are exceeded so much as they were by your staff and systems, I just had to let you know the system was a big “hit” with the audience.

KCBS TV Golden Mike Award Winning, Television Town Hall, Save Our Schools “SOS” brought together the diverse members of the Los Angeles school system in a televised forum. Quick Tally provided the voting element for the audience of concerned educators to freely discuss their differences.

Kid’s Voting Convention-“KidsVention” was a huge success. It was the Largest Electronica Voting Activity for Students across the country. It involved students, teachers, staff from the San Jose School District and it filled the Sharks Arena in San Jose California. The Convention used the complete Quick Tally service of consulting, onsite staff and equipment.

McCord Travel Management presented the Ethics Panel at Travel Weekly‘s Conference.  The president of McCord commented that it was a big success primarily of your Quick Tally system and the quality of your advice based on the many other sessions you’ve run gave us the best results and an interesting program.

Meeting Planners International, MPI of Southern California and Sacramento hosted Quick Tally to educate their members about the new technology. They gained valuable information to discovery areas that needed more training. The voting system was used at a nationally mandated program which they say would not have been possible without the use of the quick tally interactive system.

The West Virginia Roundtable used our audience response technology and onsite technician at their Issue Development Conference as a critical element in planning the future of their organization without waiting a lot of valuable time.

Swedish Medical Center is one of many medical/pharmaceutical companies that understood the value of saving time and making their meetings more productive.

McGuireWoods Battle & Boothe. Their comments regarding Quick Tally’s Audience Response services at the American Bar Association’s Ethics Program at their annual meeting were glowing. That audience members said that it was the best ethics program they had ever attended (some even said it was the best CLE program they had ever seen). Ethics programs are a perfect fit for soliciting truthful responses eliminating peer pressure through the anonymity that the system provides with the use of individual voting devices (Clickers).

Physicians Insures Association of America Annual Meeting used our technology and Staffed On-site Service and we were tasked with having the attendees enjoying the interactive nature of the presentation and to keep them interested to the end. The evaluation scores for Quick Tally’s On-site Staffed ARS Services exceeded the average for all meeting sessions.

The Great Skate Debate was the world’s largest interactive gathering; the largest audience electronically polled; the first time that the audience determined the winners of a skating exhibition and the first use of its kind on television.  It began with a booming voice saying, “Your taking part in the largest interactive event in the history of the world… a maiden voyage into sports history.” Quick Tally Interactive Systems built and ran the interactive arena audience polling system (clickers) specifically for the 4,300 audience members enabling them to vote instantaneously for their favorite world-class skater. The polling was flawless, and the results were shown immediately nation-wide on CBS television.

This was a landmark Electronic Town Hall both in terms of using the Quick Tally Audience Response System (ARS polling system clickers) and in its application to bringing a racially divided community together. This was the first use by New York State of audience voting “clickers”, and they chose Duchess County, where the Tawana Brawley case began. The voting system allowed the entire community to express their candid opinions and work toward consensus.

The landmark R.A.C.E – Racial Attitudes and Consciousness Exam was a two-part NBC-TV Nationally Televised program, measuring viewers opinions/reactions to various racial scenarios presented. It was ground-breaking (not only in the subject matter) but also technically linking together live interactive voting audiences and individuals across the country. The Live Quick Tally Audience Polling System showed overall results as well as geographic comparison. Diversity has become a major use of electronic keypad polling systems.

Condition Critical: The American Healthcare Forum was an experiment in Television Democracy; an unprecedented two-hour nation-wide forum on PBS originating from the First Parish Church facing the Battle Green in Lexington, Massachusetts, the birthplace of American participatory democracy. During the program the studio audience was polled, using the Quick Tally Audience Voting System- ARS Clickers, asking them to register their reactions to various ideas and opinions for reform. The anonymity provided by the voting devices and the instantaneous results provided the show with reliable, quick responses.

The Harbor-UCLA Medical Center used the Quick Tally Audience Response Conference Voting System (ARS Clickers) and Consulting Services on several occasions for Continuing Medical Education. They write that the Western Investigators’ Meeting of the National Registry of Myocardial Infraction Sessions were “highly successful”. Audience Response Systems are widely-used for training and knowledge retention in the Medical – Pharmaceutical industry.