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January 29, 2006
Innovations and Ideas: Denver keys into citizen responses
The city of Denver is connecting with residents - in terms of technology, at least - during a series of six neighborhood meetings beginning in March. Attendees can respond to topics and questions posed during the meetings using a hand-held keypad that wirelessly transmits responses to a central computer, offering instant feedback. Civic Results, a Denver-based nonprofit group, is helping the city organize the interactive meetings. The organization's mission is to help people solve problems through collaborative work with government and business.
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August 5, 2005
Option Technologies Announces Release of OptionFinder® G2 Interactive Keypad System 
Option Technologies announced the release of OptionFinder G2, a new advanced wireless keypad response system for  facilitated meetings, training and classroom applications. OptionFinder G2 uses two-way radio frequency technology to transmit and receive responses from meeting participants. It provides users with a new smaller, lighter and more powerful radio frequency keypad platform. 
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June 6, 2005
OTI Sets New Record for Largest Audience Response System at Nobel Biocare Meeting - Las Vegas, NV -  MGM Grand
Option Technologies set a new record for the largest event ever conducted using a wireless audience response system at a single location. The “World Conference 2005” meeting for Nobel Biocare took place in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Arena and involved keypads for more than 8,100 participants.  Oral surgeons attending the event used advanced OptionFinder® IQ wireless keypads to participate in a continuing medical education program.
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January 27, 2005
Option Technologies Provides Support for World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos, Switzerland
Option Technologies gained worldwide media attention by providing interactive response system technology for a unique “Global Town Hall” meeting during the opening general session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.  The OptionFinder® system allowed more than 700 world leaders to share diverse viewpoints and select the top six “tough issues” on the global agenda.  
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To read more about the World Economic
Forum please visit: www.WEForum.org
 
November 17, 2004
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Asks OTI To Support Town Hall Meetings With Hurricane VictimsTM Meeting
Following four major hurricanes in the state of Florida over a period of nine weeks, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) asked Option Technologies to help provide technology for town hall meetings to better understand the needs of citizens in the devastated areas. A series of three meetings, using OptionFinder® software and hardware, were conducted in different locations in Southwest Florida during November 2004. "FEMA's goal prior to the meetings was to conduct a needs assessment for each county and develop long-term recovery plans for discussion with the public," according to Steve Brigham, COO of AmericaSpeaks, one of the organizers of the events.   Read the full press release

May 23, 2003
Option Technologies Sets Record with 26 Simultaneous On-Site Breakouts for Merck ZocorTM Meeting
Option Technologies set a record for the largest number of simultaneous group response breakout sessions at one location during the "Driven By Strength" Zocor product sales meeting for Merck and Co.,Inc. More than 3500 Merck associates used the OptionFinderTM system to participate in general sessions and 26 concurrent breakouts.
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July 20, 2002
Rebuilding the WTC Site: Over 5000 Citizens Use OptionFinder in Historic “Listening to the City” Forum.
Over 5,000 people gather in New York City’s Jacob Javits Convention Center to share their opinions about the future of the World Trade Center Site. Using OptionFinder, citizens vote on six different redevelopment options currently being proposed. The event, co-sponsored by America Speaks, is the latest in a series of citizen forums that will help determine how the WTC will be rebuilt and how the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will be memorialized.
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For more information, please visit www.listeningtothecity.org or www.AmericaSpeaks.org

July 19, 2002
Delta Sigma Theta Holds First-Ever Electronic Elections at Annual Meeting
Delta Sigma Theta, the world’s largest Black Fraternal Organization, recently used interactive keypad technology from Option Technologies to dramatically speed up its association leadership elections.
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March 25, 2002
Women Entrepreneurs United in Five-City, Interactive Videoconference
     Washington, D.C. - Hundreds of female entrepreneurs from around the nation participated in a five-city, interactive videoconference on March19th that focused on opportunities and roadblocks that women encounter as they start and grow a business in the new Millennium.
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June 2, 2000
OptionFinder: key component of the Public Participation Event of the Year.
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