SMS/Text Messaging
PowerCom Short Message Service Feature for Reply Plus V3 Keypad
Audience Response Short Message Service
You're in a giant conference room, the room is packed with eager people waiting to hear your presentation. As you give your presentation, you ask of the listeners questions that will influence how you go about pitching your idea to them. You want audience participation. How do you go about gathering that information? How do you ask them for their ideas and their input? How can you quickly assemble information about your current audience and display it, allowing the audience to vote on information that you've gathered from them?
With PowerCom Audience Response SMS.
You're running a meeting to a hundred people. At the conclusion of your presentation, you want to know the opinions of the people who've listened in. You want group response. However, having each and every one of them get up and tell you what they thought would be too big a time-waster. How do you get your opinions from the audience? How do you take their feedback? How can you enable live audience polling, making your meeting an interactive meeting? With an SMS poll, you can do this! But how can you do a text message vote?
With PowerCom Audience Response SMS.
With the help of PowerCom Audience Response SMS, text messaging has become your company's best presentation tool. SMS, or short message service, is a quick 140 character message which can be written quickly and efficiently on any cell phone, often with the use of T9 predictive technology.
The Reply Plus Version 3 Keypad has an Alpha-numeric cell phone style wireless keypad to maintain the familiarity that people have with texting and with PowerCom Audience Response SMS, text message polling is made easy. With PowerPoint presentation software, texting to the presenter is made easy, allowing the audience to send a short message to the presenter in a meeting.
So what exactly can the presenter do with PowerCom Audience Response SMS? The audience uses text messaging to submit to the presenter. From these, the presenter can choose to
1. Display one or more messages to the audience for viewing and discussion
2. Reply to the various SMS senders' questions
3. Convert text messages from the live audience to become polling
4. Select several SMS as answer choices for the audience to vote
All you need to get PowerCom Audience Response SMS up and running is Reply Plus Version 3 Keypads as well as the Reply Plus Version 3 Base Station. In quick easy steps, you can be on the way to having an interactive presentation where opinions matter and can be heard.
Thanks to the Reply Plus Version 3 Keypad, texting is a piece of cake. With the number keys and text key entry designed to be like that of a regular cellular phone, using it is as easy as texting on a cellular phone.
For the presenter, simply turn on PowerCom Audience Response SMS when you want input from the audience or are opening up the presentation to discussion and Q&A. When you wish to just focus on the presentation, simply turn off PowerCom SMS.
For the best presentation possible, use PowerCom Audience Response SMS. For the most powerful information collection tool, use PowerCom Audience Response SMS.
A good example on SMS.
The audience texted their favorite stocks symbol to the presenter.
So what's the next step?
If you wish to learn more, you can email us at powercom{at}dsii.net or call us at 1-877-DSINF07 for a demo, or you can download our software that PowerCom Audience Response SMS runs on. However, to experience PowerCom Audience Response SMS, you can purchase the Reply Plus Version 3 Keypad and Base.
