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 customer […] 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

New Feature Ideas for ParticiPoll – Tell Us What You Think

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We’ve had loads of great feedback from our customers about what features they’d like to see in our next product release. Here is a summary of some of the ideas we’ve received. If you have any comments or ideas please leave a comment below or contact us directly – we’d love to hear from you! […] Read more

Are BYOD Audience Polling Software Systems Set To Kill Clickers?

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We’ve put together a brief summary of the pros and cons of BYOD (bring your own device) polling systems like ParticiPoll.com vs hardware clicker or voting pad systems.   BYOD Software System Benefits Generally cheaper than hardware Installation and setup simpler with no need to hand-out voting pads Audience members less likely to lose their […] Read more

Absolutely the Worst PowerPoint Presentation EVER?

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Death by PowerPoint is a pretty well known condition but sometimes it can be more like Sleep-deprivation torture followed by a slow lingering death by PowerPoint. So we thought it would be fun to hear some of your experiences of truly terrible presentations. To whet your appetite, we thought the NSA’s infamous PRISM presentation took […] Read more

Dare You Play ‘Classroom Chicken’?

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We’ve all experienced it, a presenter, lecturer or teacher desperate to engage with a disinterested or sleepy audience trying harder and harder to get a response out of them. “Come on class – can anyone tell me why X equals Y…. anyone?” Cue deathly silence, awkward shuffling or outright smartphone-cocooned denial. Like a stand-up comedian […] Read more

Blog Welcome

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Welcome to our blog! We aim to share the developing story of ParticiPoll as well as ideas for using audience participation a part of your PowerPoint presentations. We’d love to hear about your presentation experiences (both good and bad) and we’d welcome guest bloggers too so do get in touch.     Read more