Death By PowerPoint – Are You Guilty?

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We don’t mean to be blunt but some of you just aren’t presenting well and it’s annoying! Death By PowerPoint is real so here’s a quick list of presentation crimes that you need to stop committing immediately:- You’re the presenter, not PowerPoint People don’t come to watch a slideshow – they want to hear and see […] Read more

ParticiPoll Kunden-Fallstudie: Sectio chirurgica Live-Operationen Webinar

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ParticiPolls anonyme Zuschauer-Umfragen sind besonders bei Nutzern in den Bereichen der Medizin und Life Sciences beliebt. Daher waren wir sehr erfreut, dass die beliebte deutsche live-Webinar Serie Sectio chirurgica sich dazu entschlossen hat, ParticiPoll bereits im zweiten Jahr in Folge wiederzuverwenden. Ben Ravilious, Mitbegründer von ParticiPoll, sprach mit dem Organisator der Sectio chirurgica, Andreas Kramer, […] Read more

Customer Case Study: Sectio Chirurgica Live Surgery Webinar

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ParticiPoll’s anonymous audience polling is particularly popular with medical and life science practitioners so we were delighted when the popular German live surgery webinar series Sectio Chirurgica chose to use ParticiPoll for a second year running. ParticiPoll co-founder Ben Ravilious spoke to Sectio Chirurgica organiser Andreas Kramer, medical technologist at the Department of Anatomy, Eberhard-Karls […] Read more

What Does Your Audience Think?

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It’s funny how the word ‘lecture’ has become synonymous with imparting information in a reprimanding or condescending manner. What does this tell us about the way we’re presenting to our audiences? Think back to the best presentations, lectures or talks that you’ve ever seen. How did the presenter relate to the audience? Did they engage […] Read more

PowerPoint ‘Kill Switch’ Shuts Down Poor Presentations

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Audience polling system provider ParticiPoll.com has launched a new ‘Kill Switch’ which allows audience members to instantly suspend poor PowerPoint presentations by majority vote. (Strictly embargoed until after midnight, 31st March 2016) The Kill Switch will be rolled out in April as an additional feature to ParticiPoll’s existing audience voting system, popular with healthcare, life […] Read more

Amazing trick to make your PowerPoint slides interactive

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Bored of talking at your audience while they fiddle with their phones? or while they play video games with services from Elitist Gaming on their phones? or looking at jogging stroller reviews on their phones? What if you could make your PowerPoint presentation interactive in a matter of seconds and put all those smart phones […] Read more

Great Free Sources of PowerPoint Templates

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Audience polling is a great way to make your presentation more interactive and fun but what about it’s actual appearance? Here we’ve listed some free resources to help you make your presentation look great http://www.free-power-point-templates.com Over 1300 free royalty background designs, PowerPoint illustrations, graphics, and PPT templates. http://slidehunter.com Free themes compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, […] Read more

ParticiPoll Now Accepting Subscription by Credit/Debit Card

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We’re pleased to announce that you can now purchase your ParticiPoll Pro subscription using your credit or debit card. We have integrated the Stripe payment gateway as an option into our check out process. The existing PayPal option has been retained to you can continue to pay your regular subscriptions that way too. For corporate […] Read more

ParticiPoll Moves to Amazon AWS Hosting

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Last weekend we moved our entire hosting over to Amazon’s AWS hosting platform. This has allowed us to set up a more robust hosting arrangement where different components of the service (registration/accounts, polling/voting, database) each have their own dedicated servers It also allows us to scale the hosting provision in different localities as the our […] Read more

ParticiPoll Update: New Features, Faster Response, Bugs Fixed!

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We’re delighted to announce a new improved version of ParticiPoll, our free audience polling add-in for PowerPoint. Please be sure you’re using the latest version of the ParticiPoll add-in by following these simple instructions: https://www.participoll.com/faq/#toggle-id-3   WHAT’S NEW IN PARTICIPOLL VERSION 2? Faster Performance We’ve optimised the voting and polling code to reduce the time it […] Read more