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At the beginning of seminars, "expectation queries" have been established for decades.

With VOXR you can now do these with 40, 100 or 1000 people!

Here is an important tip: You can ask questions with the VOXR SMARTCloud:

• "What topic did you come here with?

However, this sometimes leads to everyday terms such as "demographics", "digitisation", etc.

Our recommendation: Use VOXR CloudQ&A and make it smarter: Do not ask for topics, but let the audience ask questions: 

• "Which No. 1 question should we have answered at the end of the event?"

Experience has shown that this leads to more "authenticity" and thus emotion. (If you don't know CloudQ&A yet: the QUESTIONS won't be displayed, only the TOPICS contained therein. 
Find out more here: voxr.org/cloud​

The classic of interaction BEFORE a lecture:

• "How how do you estimate the federal social expenditures to be?"
  Options: 3 billion? 542 billion? 918 billion.

Perfect, if this is then (quite a lot) later answered by the speaker - here you have created suspense.

The only important thing here is that you have to give options, i.e. vote with given answers. An estimation question with the SMARTCloud does not lead to a picture of what the audience thinks, but to confusing numbers (because 918 and 917 are different in the WordCloud, although a person would of course say: close enough!).

Very intriguing before a lecture:

• "Which group do you feel you belong to?"
  Options: Babyboomer, Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z (as voting)
• "Which Country are you from?" (SMARTCloud, only for MANY countries)

These kinds of questions tell the audience something about themselves as a group and are therefore very exciting. They also allow the speaker to respond directly to the community image.

Sometimes however it makes sense to not ask for a defined answer but to give ranged options: 

• "When did you first buy a smartphone?"
  Options: 2016-2019, 2011-2015, 2007-2011, before 2007 (Voting)

Here the viewer learns: Was I early in comparison with this community? Or late? The speaker may later provide the Germany statistis and they get a picute of community vs. Germany.

Self-assessment questions go one step further than belonging questions and are also perfect BEFORE a presentation:

• "Hand on your heart: How do you rate yourself when it comes to sports?"
  Options: Leading, in midfield, rather in the back (Voting)

The attention for the upcoming talk on physical health will automatically be higher.

Important: In the facilitation repeat that VOXR is 100% anonymous.

With VOXR  Cloud Q&A you can choose a special type of interaction that works very well with CEO's or experienced, well-known speakers: "Now comes "Celebrity xyz". Before he shows you anything, say: "What would your number one question for him be?"

Since the questions in the cloud are not shown, but only the most common topics, this gives the speaker a perfect view of the interests in the room - and he can react perfectly and be truly interactive with the audience.

​By the way: the widespread concern of having to "deliver" is unfounded: You are only interested in the audience, you have not promised to answer everything. Audience and speakers therefore love this variant.

There are two ways to let viewers ask questions digitally:

1) Questions during the presentation: "You can also ask questions during...". This is also possible with VOXR. But this way is sometimes difficult to "facilitate".i.e. which questions do you choose? Why these? Why not the others? In addition, you realistically only get 10 or 20 questions of which you can only "show" 5: A large part remains uninvolved.

2) However the VOXR CloudQ&A Method includes everyone: It is recommended if you want more real interaction (to really know what's happening in the audience) or if you want to show the audience that all inputs have really arrived - but without showing the questions. 

In our experience, with VOXR Cloud Q&A you get about 10-100 times more quesiotn (depending on audience size) than with questions during the presentation as stated in point 1). This also leads to better quality, because in a concentrated input action you can also hear the quiet voices. (Experience shows that loud voices are more likely to enter something during a presentation than quiet ones, a problem known from questions with the microphone).

Classical applications for voting AFTER presentations are of course competitions:

• "Which project proposal did you like best?" Options: A, B, C, D, E

Such competitions can be made with simple voting.

However now you can do this in a hollywood-like fashion with VOXR Awards.

Ratings are often thought of as a way to be interactive. However, they only make sense if you make a comparison, e.g. assign rating to different project ideas. 

Experience shows, however, that ratings usually fall behind other forms of interaction.

Exception: You make the ranking / rating before and after the presentation to make a "learning" visible. Depending on the context, this can also be "forced": "Hopefully you have learned something, haven't you?

Content questions are a good alternative: 

• "What did you find most remarkable about this team/lecture? (SMARTCloud, the word "nothing" is blocked by the way!)

Opinion polls (good/bad/medium) are of course known to everyone from surveys.

In an event you sometimes have the problem: What do you do with the result on stage? (The product presentation or the team feeling is voted as "bad" - and now?)

Often, therefore, questions that go further in terms of content are more effective: 

• 1. "What did you just like about the project presentation?"
• 2. "What didn't you like?"

(both SMARTCloud)

There are two ways to let viewers ask questions during a panel discussion:

1) Questions during the presentation: "You can also ask questions during...". This is also possible with VOXR. But this way is sometimes difficult to "facilitate". i.e. to select and introduce. In addition, you realistically only get 10 or 20 questions of which you can only "show" 5. 

2) The VOXR CloudQ&A Method: This is the innovative method of VOXR founder Tim Schlüter, which makes panel discussions much easier and much more interesting for the audience: At the beginning, all questions in the room are "fetched" in 1 minute, automatically clustered into topics, the (filtered) topics are shown to the audience (the questions are not) and now you pick out one question topic by topic.

Our experience shows that the second variant regularly brings 10 times more questions than the first one. This also leads to better quality, because in a concentrated input action you can also hear the quiet voices.

Workshops / Break-Outs / Sessions often have two interests: 

1. You want to use VOXR in the sessions themselves. That works. Technically implemented with independent VOXRs, one independent VOXR per room (these VOXRs don't cost the same as the main VOXR, of course). 

2. One wants a summary of the workshops later in the plenum. For this the unique VOXR Groups is the solution: With only one VOXR you "fetch" a summary in different workshops at the same time:

• "What was your most important lesson from this workshop?" (SMARTCloud)

In the Plenum the entried can be shown separately or summarized to together.

Variant 2 is often the simpler and more effective option for shorter workshops (up to 1hour).

​The four key questions of the Blue Ocean Strategy have now become a popular (and, if well guided, very effective) exercise for workshops.

You can do this exercise with VOXR in two ways, each after the brainstorm phases:

a) a) You say while everyone is still in small groups: "Ok, what did you take out of the session?" In VOXR, you have previously set up the four sections with VOXR Groups: "Reduce/Eliminate/raise/invent". In the plenum you can then discuss word clouds that have arisen per blue ocean tactic.

b) b) If you additionally want to know absolutely, unconditionally, whether there were differences in the groups, set the four blue ocean topic queries sequentially as individual VOXR actions one after the other - and set your workshop groups as groups for each individual action.

Because of the lower complexity, we recommend variant a). One reason to use variant b) would be to give separate feedback to individual workshop leaders for review (as wordclouds).

The classic feedback form is often a nuisance: Few fill it out, the evaluation takes time and the result? Often does not lead to changes at all, but stands "for itself".

Our recommendation is VOXR SMARTFeedback: Get real, useful and feasible feedback with only two open questions (plus a qualitative rating question if necessary):

• "What did you really like today from an organisational point of view?" (SMARTCloud)
• "If we repeat the event, what would you personally change?" (SMARTCloud)
• if applicable: "How would you rate the event on a scale of 1-10?" (Voting)

The feedback sheet is finished- and evaluated by VOXR automatically, with all individual voices ready to download.