Interactive News from Option Technologies…

August 19th, 2010

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Interactive PowerPoint® Presentations are easy to develop with your OptionPower® ARS

July 1st, 2010

Option Technologies Interactive (OTI) has been a pioneer in creating audience response systems that use Microsoft PowerPoint® to solicit audience response and immediately display tabulated results on-screen. Time flies. It is hard to believe that we launched our first PowerPoint® related polling software way back in 1996. In the intervening years, OTI has consistently introduced new PowerPoint® based software tools with new breakthrough capabilities.

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Become a More Effective Meeting Advocate

February 16th, 2010

In today’s challenging economy, every operating area is under scrutiny to demonstrate a return on investment. Meeting organizers have an opportunity to better measure and prove the value of events. Unfortunately, a significant percentage of meetings are poorly designed and lack even minimal assessment. These events rightfully draw criticism from both inside and outside the organization. It is hard to look employees in the face and deliver the bad news of upcoming layoffs when corporate managers just returned from a wasteful conference. Measurement can help leaders at all levels get out in front of such problems. It also provides concerned stakeholders with the information they need to understand how events create (or destroy) value.

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What gets measured, improves

February 11th, 2010

The spotlight of public scrutiny has recently focused on the value of meetings, particularly events held by firms receiving bailout money. The heightened level of scrutiny provides an opportunity for meeting professionals to do a better job demonstrating and proving the value of their meetings, using new tools to measure and demonstrate such value. A growing number of meeting professionals are focusing on Measurement methodologies like Return on Event (ROE) or Return on Investment (ROI). ”

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New Techniques to Measure Meeting Value

January 12th, 2010

There are a variety of new techniques and best practices to measure and prove meeting value. I had an opportunity to review some of these approaches in an article I wrote for October Issue of the Forum magazine.

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The new Micro+ audience response keypad

February 25th, 2009

The OptionFinder Micro+ wireless audience response keypad is the smallest keypad on the market today.  Weighing less than an ounce it is 35% smaller than the next leading keypad.  It was designed to meet the needs of training and event organizers who require sophisticated capabilities and easy logistics in an audience response system.

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February 23rd, 2009

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