Poll Everywhere in the news: Top press mentions of 2021
The year 2021 was a whirlwind of change, reactionary decision-making, and a yearning for connection. Companies shared their return-to-office plans only to quickly shift in favor of hybrid work. Employees grappled with the choice to work from home or return to the office, choosing between flexibility and connection with colleagues. To power hybrid work, Poll Everywhere has been building product features that allow you to engage with your audience anywhere and sharing our best tips for managing a hybrid team.
Along the way, we were fortunate enough to have our stories shared in the news. Here are our favorite press mentions of 2021:
How To Create Compelling Content For Online Presentations – Forbes
“You can experiment with built-in polling tools in your webinar software or use other tools like Poll Everywhere or Kahoot.”
Microsoft Teams vs. Zoom – Forbes Advisor
“Microsoft Teams integrates with 250+ apps, including Salesforce, Asana, Trello, MindMeister, Smartsheet, Poll Everywhere, SurveyMonkey and Priority Matrix, which all offer a Teams-specific integration option.”
What It Takes to Run a Great Hybrid Meeting – Harvard Business Review
“…use a phone-based survey tool like Poll Everywhere to collect everyone’s input in real time. This puts remote participants on an equal footing, versus a show-of-hands or relying on verbal feedback.”
Combatting “Zoom Fatigue”: Passive Class Participation – The Trinity Tripod
“The best way passive participation has been used in my classes so far has been through the software Poll Everywhere. Through this software, students answer questions in a variety of formats.”
Cisco supports hybrid workforce augmented reality meeting solutions – Computer Weekly
“Another integration of the suite will be with Poll Everywhere, the world’s first real-time audience response technology. The partnership is designed to give Webex’s base of more than 600 million users new capabilities for live engagement during meetings. Poll Everywhere is now an embedded app available directly in Webex.”
Sampling a new classroom environment to stay engaged during COVID-19 – AgriLife Today
“Engaging the students in online synchronous classes is challenging, but using Zoom, Poll Everywhere and Google tools really helped to keep the students engaged.”
Make Your Slides Interactive – Jeremy Caplan
“Poll Everywhere is another excellent choice with free plug-ins for bringing live poll questions and results into slide decks you design with Google Slides, Keynote, or PowerPoint.”
An Insight into Quora’s Flexible, People-First Culture – All Work
“We’ve tested a number, we’ve recently implemented our first tool. It’s called Poll Everywhere. It helps with interaction within presentations. And so, it helps to have that real time feedback. So, you don’t feel like you’re just sitting on a screen watching a presentation, but you’re engaging and interacting.”
Coffee Briefing, Oct. 26, 2021 – All the recent tech news; a podcast roundup; and more – Channel Daily News
“Cisco today announced the integration of Poll Everywhere, real-time audience response technology accessible on any device, with the WebEx platform to give users new capabilities for live engagement through live online polling, surveys, Q&As, quizzes, word clouds, and more during meetings, as organizations continue to shift their standards for flexible work.”
Cisco supports hybrid workforce augmented reality meeting solutions – Blogarama
“The Poll Everywhere embedded app in Webex gives users the ability to seamlessly integrate engagement and feedback activities into their existing content and workflows, saving time and effort for both meeting presenters and participants while also protecting user data.”
Coffee Briefing, Oct. 26, 2021 – All the recent tech news; a podcast roundup; and more – IT World Canada
“Cisco today announced the integration of Poll Everywhere, real-time audience response technology accessible on any device, with the WebEx platform to give users new capabilities for live engagement through live online polling, surveys, Q&As, quizzes, word clouds, and more during meetings, as organizations continue to shift their standards for flexible work.”
Poll Everywhere is excited to share our latest company and product updates with the world. If you enjoy reading about new use cases and how other customers use Poll Everywhere, check out our case study library! Stories range from virtual training sessions, live polls in meetings, to online pub trivia. We wish you a happy holiday season and a refreshed 2022!