TEDME für klassische Eventformate
Klassischer Kongress mit Plenarvorträgen
Gestalten Sie Ihre Kongresse lebendiger und nutzen Sie das Interaktionstool von TEDME für die klassischen Q&A-Runden nach einem Vortrag. Mit TEDME bewegen Sie auch eher introvertierte Teilnehmer dazu, ihre Fragen zu stellen oder Meinung zu äußern. Darüber hinaus filtern Sie bzw. Ihr Moderator unpassende Fragen heraus bevor diese überhaupt gestellt wurden. Sowohl Ihrem Speaker als auch den anderen Zuhörern ersparen Sie so zeitraubende Selbstdarsteller und Ihr Kongress bleibt im geplanten Zeitablauf.
Warum brauchen Sie dafür eine Q&A-Funktion von TEDME? Ganz einfach: Ein typischer Chat ist schnell unübersichtlich. Mit TEDME sammeln und strukturieren Sie Fragen, bevor Sie diese freigeben oder auch nur selbst einsehen und beantworten. Darüber hinaus können Sie auch bestimmte Fragen auswählen und das Publikum entscheiden lassen, welche Sie davon beantworten sollen.
Neben klassischen Q&A Runden können Sie auch mit der bei TEDME integrierten Voting-Funktion die Meinung vieler Personen gleichzeitig abfragen. Gerade auf Fachkongressen holen Sie so in Echtzeit Expertenwissen ein und können es live auf der Bühne präsentieren.
Keynote
Selbst die beste Keynote wird spannender, wenn Sie Ihr Publikum einbeziehen. Mit den eben vorgestellten Q&A-Runden und live integrierter Abstimmungen über TEDME zeigen Sie Ihrem Publikum, dass Sie deren Meinungen und Wissen schätzen. Egal ob für eine einzelne Keynote oder für einen gesamten Kongress, mit TEDME verbessern Sie die Interaktion und sorgen so dafür, dass Ihre Botschaften beim Publikum ankommen und besser erinnert werden.
Podiumsdiskussion
Podiumsdiskussionen werden für alle spannender, wenn Sie Ihr Publikum einbeziehen. Dafür kann Ihr Moderator über TEDME Fragen ans Publikum stellen und diese über die Antworten abstimmen lassen. Übrigens können Sie mit TEDME auch spontane Fragen durchführen.
Sie wollen lieber Fragen vom Publikum an die Diskutanten auf der Bühne richten? Nichts leichter als das! Ihr Moderator kann sogar Ihr über die gestellten Fragen abstimmen lassen und nur die beliebtesten Fragen den Podiumsteilnehmern präsentieren. Oder Sie zeigen sowohl Ihrem Publikum und Ihren Rednern auf der Bühne für welche Themen sich Ihr Publikum heute besonders interessiert: Mit den in Echtzeit entstehenden Wortwolken.
Seminare, Trainings und Weiterbildung
Wann immer es um Arbeit und Austausch in kleinen Gruppen geht, hilft Ihnen TEDME bei der Vermittlung Ihrer Inhalte. Mit der Funktion “Wissens-Check” überprüfen Sie das soeben erlernte Wissen Ihrer Teilnehmer. Oder Sie fügen dem Wissenscheck noch einen Spaßfaktor hinzu, machen Sie ein Wissens-Spiel daraus und lassen Sie beispielsweise Teilgruppen Ihrer Veranstaltungen gegeneinander antreten. Je aktiver Ihre Teilnehmer dabei sind, desto besser können sie sich das Erlernte langfristig merken. Mit dem TEDME-Wissens-Check lockern Sie Seminare oder Trainings auf und verankern das neue Wissen langfristig.
Workshops oder Breakout Sessions
Workshops - oder auch Breakout Sessions genannt - können Sie ebenfalls mit TEDME spannender gestalten. Sammeln Sie vorab oder zu Beginn Ihres Workshops über das Tool die relevanten Themen und Fragen ein und lassen Sie Ihr Publikum über deren Relevanz abstimmen – über die TEDME Smilies.
Bei virtuellen Breakout Sessions erhalten Sie für jede Session einen ‘eigenen TEDME Raum’, in dem Sie dann Q&A Runden und Umfragen durchführen können.
Auch Onsite Workshops managen Sie mit TEDME effizienter: Vorbei sind die Zeiten, in denen Sie ellenlanger Papierlisten für Ihre Evaluation ausgelegt und abgetippt haben. Feedbackbögen von TEDME sind digital und in Echtzeit ausgewertet.
Mehr Inspiration für klassische Eventformate
People who want to organise interactions and voting, Q&A sessions and the like very often think of Mentimeter or slido and forget that there are also excellent IT solutions "Made in Germany" - for example TEDME. Yet TEDME, Mentimeter and slido were developed around the same time many years ago. Read this article to find out what distinguishes the Mentimeter alternative TEDME from other voting and interaction tools.
What Mentimeter and sli.do have in common with TEDME
Let's take a quick look at what the Mentimeter alternative TEDME and the other tools have in common. You can use them to implement voting and interactive sessions. Browser-based, you can involve your audience in live polls. Participants can vote on your questions, type in their questions or comments, create word clouds and conduct quizzes and Q&A sessions. In short, you can make your presentations more interactive and therefore more attractive.
What looks so identical at first glance is actually quite different in detail.
Differences between Mentimeter, sli.do and TEDME
Mentimeter, sli.do and TEDME are quite different in detail, as you can see from the list of features listed here alone.
There are particularly large differences
- with the integrations and interfaces
- the role concept and the focus on use in large companies
- with regard to authentication and the organisation of elections
- during tracking
- in the type of support
- and data protection.
The integrations with Mentimeter, sli.do and TEDME
Thanks to the interfaces, the APIs, TEDME can be easily integrated into other IT tools and vice versa.
The webinar mode: Stream, Zoom or Webex meeting integration or slide transmission to the participants
There is an integration with TEDME - the Mentimeter alternative - for both Zoom and WebEx. If you activate the "Webinar mode" in the TEDME settings for this presentation, you can enter the URL of a Zoom meeting or a WebEx meeting or the link of any livestream.
The advantage for your participants: They only log in once - to your TEDME room and have the Zoom or Webex meeting, the live stream or even the slides of the presentation in a single view within TEDME in their browser.
The transfer of names to the chat module
In order for Zoom or WebEx to display the participant name within the session just presented, these tools usually ask your participants for their name again. But with TEDME, your participants can also be present live in your meeting and in your surveys with their name - thanks to the API. This transfer of information from a higher-level tool also works for other applications. For example, when registering via your existing IT solution for participant management or when registering via an event platform.
You can also find out more in the article Operating tools in parallel is a thing of the past - how to integrate TEDME into your event platform.
What is the situation with the other two voting tools?
Like TEDME, Slido can also be integrated into your existing tools via API and used with most common video conferencing and live streaming tools as well as in event platforms. Conversely, you can call up Mentimeter as an app with Zoom and MS Teams, for example, and Slido as an app with WebEx. However, Mentimeter only offers single sign-on from the Enterprise solution onwards.
The role concept and the focus on use in large companies
TEDME specialises in the needs of large companies and corporations. In other words, TEDME knows the requirements of large companies and institutions - with regard to security, the handling of sensitive data and internal structures. The latter can be seen, for example, in the fact that you can assign customised access rights for each department in your company. For example, you can assign and carry out many different events and their access to the interaction tool internally in a clearly organised manner. You can also use these granularly assignable access rights:
- carry out individual projects in separate organisational units,
- Appoint project administrators for each organisational unit, who in turn can invite and manage moderators with customised user rights themselves,
- work in a team,
- Make central documents available to other departments
- and make entire lectures available to different users.
Other features of TEDME that are particularly relevant for companies:
- High reliability thanks to two server systems
- Complete renunciation of tracking cookies such as Google Analytics & Co,
- Compatible with firewalls and internal company security requirements,
- Server location Germany.
This dedicated focus on the needs of large companies and working in departments and therefore the allocation of roles, in terms of rights per user but also in terms of the distribution of which user has access to which departments/accounts, is probably only found in a less extensive version with other interaction and voting tool providers.
The authentication and dialling module of TEDME
Do you need a legally compliant module for organising your online elections? One that includes authentication? Then TEDME is the right choice for you - thanks to the TEDME Auth module. It includes participant management and combines this with voting for your votes or elections. This ensures that only those participants who belong to the invited group of participants take part in the vote. Whether authenticated or secret voting - the Auth module makes your elections possible and secure. Of course, it also includes vote weighting, proxy authorisations and export of voting results. This enables you to store the data securely on your servers long after your event.
Take a look at the Auth module a closer look.
Tracking with Mentimeter, sli.do and TEDME
Even though we would very much like to learn more about user behaviour on our own website, the protection of your data and secure, tracking-free login to our website for all your participants is extremely important to us. That is why we do not use any tracking tools at all - even on our website, which participants use to log in for an event, among other things. This clearly sets us apart from our competitors.
Support for Mentimeter, sli.do and TEDME
Would you like German-speaking support? Someone you can call during your office hours? With a direct extension and without a chatbot or anonymous hotline? TEDME offers you exactly that.
With sli.do, on the other hand, you receive the following support:
- Online helpdesk: Search and find detailed articles.
- Video tutorials: Take a product tour.
- Live chat: On working days.
- In an emergency or urgent matter, please call +1 650 282 1729.
Would you like to call a hotline in an emergency in the USA?
With Mentimenter, the support looks like this:
- Enterprise customers: Find a contact form on the Enterprise page.
- Help centre: An online library.
- E-mail: hello@mentimeter.com
- Twitter: @mentimeter
- Support: To do this, log into the app and receive app text message support.
Hand on heart - would you like to go there for help with urgent questions?
Data protection and data security at TEDME
TEDME attaches great importance to data protection and data security. The GDPR is the standard and framework in Germany for all actions that you and we take in connection with data. That is why you need a GDPR-compliant solution. For us, this also means that the servers on which we store and process your data are located in Germany. You can find out more about this in our Privacy policy under point 4 see.
Hosting looks a little different with Mentimeter and slido.
Mentimeter processes and stores data on servers from AWS - Amazon Web Service and Heroku, a service from SalesForce - a publicly traded company in the United States. They have configured their solution to be stored in the US-East-1 region, North Virginia, USA.
Slido is now a part of Cisco WebEx and communicates the following on the WebEx website: Because Cisco is a global company, we may transfer your personal data to Cisco in the United States, to one of Cisco's globally distributed subsidiaries, or to third parties and business partners described above located in various countries around the world. By using our websites and solutions or providing personal data, you consent to the extent permitted by applicable law and accept that such data may be transferred to, processed or stored at a destination outside your country of residence, where different data protection standards may apply.
Conclusion
Even if the tools appear very similar at first glance, there are major differences in the details.
We have also compiled an overview of what sets TEDME apart from numerous other interaction and voting tools. To forward to interested colleagues or as an argumentation template for you. More about the USPs of TEDME.
The trade fair season is back and with it the question for many companies: How do I present myself at face-to-face trade fairs in such a way that I make contact with visitors and collect valuable data at the same time? For example, feedback on my products, opinions on a specific topic or simply a picture of the mood? With an interaction tool like TEDME, you can do this and much more. How? Find out in this article.
1. capture a mood with a word cloud
? Use: on an exhibition stand
With a word cloud, easily generated via TEDME, you can obtain a picture of visitor sentiment on any question or topic. You can restart the word clouds generated at the presence trade fairs every day or collect the entries of all trade fair visitors over the entire duration of the trade fair and display them as an overall result.
All you need is a TEDME licence and a screen on your stand so that visitors can see how others have participated before them.
Questions you could ask, for example:
- Should we as an organisation pursue A, B or C?
- Which product from our portfolio has impressed you the most?
- What wishes do you have for our company or our products?
- Where have you travelled from today?
- What do you think about XYZ?
- What do you use our ABC product for the most?
2. collect feedback and suggestions with an open survey
? Use: during the keynote, at the trade fair stand or in a workshop
If you want to find out more than just a short keyword on a specific topic, it is worth using an open question that your visitors can answer with a few words or a sentence. You can use this to collect feedback from your customers or even from your employees at an internal company event. You can also combine this with a competition or other incentives to ensure that as many participants as possible take part in presence trade fairs or events.
Here are some questions you might ask:
- What suggestions do you have on the subject of XYZ?
- What do you want from our products?
- How did you like the trade fair?
- How did you like our exhibition stand?
3. realise a raffle with the TEDME Q&A module
? Use: for exhibitors at a trade fair or for companies as part of an in-house exhibition
This is about rewarding the actions of a visitor such as questions, answers or contributions.
People love to win something. Even in the B2B environment and even if hardly anyone openly admits it. So why not give it a try with a prize draw? The best way to do this is to use TEDME's Q&A module, as the names of the participants are displayed in this module.
For example, you can choose a winner from the participants of a brainstorming session organised at the presence trade fairs. It is best to think about a campaign that also offers you as the organiser of the prize draw added value. For example, because the answers you receive will give you insights into a topic that you were previously unaware of or only slightly aware of. As the organiser, you can enjoy the new insights and the winner can enjoy the prize. Speaking of prizes: If possible, draw a main prize as well as a few consolation prizes. Nobody likes to lose and thanks to the consolation prizes, the probability of winning something is also higher.
4. involve exhibitors and sponsors via a digital competition
? Use: for trade fair organisers; digital alternative to the classic flyer
If you are the organiser of a trade fair, you probably ask yourself every year how to get as many visitors as possible to the exhibitors' stands. One popular option: a competition. The best way to do this digitally and without paperwork is to use a solution like TEDME. Regardless of whether your trade fair lasts one day or two weeks - with TEDME you can collect all the answers in a simple and structured way. It is best to formulate knowledge questions that are explained at the individual stands of your exhibitors. Even better: Let your exhibitors formulate the questions and ask them at this opportunity whether they would like to participate in the competition with a sponsorship in kind.
A typical win-win situation: the exhibitor is happy about the traffic at his stand and the trade fair visitor has the chance to win a prize.
The Jeopardy-style quiz ensures more attention and fun at presence trade fairs
? Use: on the stage of a large trade fair; as part of the programme
Regardless of whether you run your own stand or are the organiser of the trade fair: With an exciting Jeopardy-style quiz, you can playfully test your visitors' knowledge and ensure more fun and attention at your trade fair or trade fair stand.
? Use: on the exhibition stand
If you have an exhibition stand, you can run the quiz on a monitor on the stand and involve visitors in a conversation or guessing game. Don't forget to include small prizes for everyone who submits a correct answer.
? Use: at the trade fair
If, on the other hand, you are organising a trade fair with many exhibitors, you can incorporate a quiz of this kind at check-in, at the trade fair exit, in the busy foyer or during a closing round. By posing the questions in such a way that visitors can find out the answers at the stands, you can ensure traffic at the stands and an exciting round of guessing at the end of the presence trade fair. The more excitement and fun you or a professional moderator bring to the quiz, the more attractive the guessing round will be. Don't forget to include a few prizes for the best guessers.
6. the competition at the festival
? Use: at a festival or similar event; the digital alternative to the classic postcard
If you want to raffle something, you need some kind of solution for the entries. Traditionally, this was a postcard. You can do this digitally with a form - from TEDME, for example. Here your participant can say "Yes, I want to win" without having to play anything. You can link the entry to a specific solution or answer, but you don't have to. In this variant, it is only important to collect the address data so that you can actually send something to the winner.
Conclusion
Face-to-face trade fairs are back and with them the chance to talk to trade fair visitors live and face-to-face. Give this opportunity a boost and offer low-threshold or playful conversation starters. With TEDME, you have numerous options that are also very easy to implement.
Do you know who sometimes has the best ideas for your products, services or tools? Your customers. After all, they use them intensively and quickly realise what could be improved, which functions they miss or what else they would consume from you. Use this opportunity and ask your customers - at a trade fair stand, for example. In this article, we show you how you can do this with the word clouds from TEDME.
Collect ideas at the trade fair stand: "What do you want?"
Ask your customers and trade fair visitors what they (still) want from you. For example
- What other products would you like to see from us?
- What ideas do you have for a sustainable product from us?
- What service do you still miss from us?
Give your customers and their imagination free rein. With TEDME's "word cloud" question type, anyone can type in whatever comes to mind. Incidentally, you can also allow several words as one answer with TEDME - in contrast to many other voting tools.
Who knows, maybe you will give your trade fair visitors the next great product idea?
Attract and convince potential employees at the trade fair stand
Do you also want to present yourself as an attractive employer at your trade fair stand? In times of a shortage of skilled labour, the peak of which is yet to come, this is an excellent idea! So ask trade fair visitors, especially at a careers fair, what they would like to see from you as an employer. Collect as many ideas and answers as possible. TEDME simply displays multiple answers larger in the word cloud. In this case too, activate the entry of "whole phrases" for the word cloud so that your potential employees can enter more than just one word. Well, when you enter "home office", everyone probably knows what you want. But it would be even more accurate and meaningful if your candidate could also type in "at least three days working from home".
Capture trends and moods at the trade fair stand with a word cloud
"What's the next big thing in ABC?" - ask what you are interested in about your trade fair visitors and what they might know. You may want to ask the question in a more serious way, but the goal remains the same: Market research and sensing trends. Where better to do this than at trade fairs? Exactly.
What you might ask:
- What terms do you associate with ...?
- What comes to mind after this keynote?
- What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of our product portfolio?
- What should we focus on in the next quarter/year?
If you show your trade fair visitors' answers on a screen or on a screen on a lecture stage, you can also boost the participation rate. For example, you could ask a moderator to point out the ongoing survey from time to time. Depending on the skill of your presenter, "oh, that's super exciting ... how will this turn out today?" of your moderator, you can activate additional visitors.
Let your trade fair visitors have a say
Collect the best ideas from your participants and let them decide which product, training opportunity or job benefits should be presented in more detail in today's presentation.
Admittedly, that's pretty brave. But you can also prepare for it and inspire the audience with your spontaneity. Ask your trade fair visitors what they are particularly interested in today and then present precisely this information. You probably know which three key questions your visitors keep asking. You can also bring three prepared presentations with you. Or you can actually organise it freely and live - the better you know your product or services, the easier it will be for you.
To narrow down the selection, you could also switch to a different question type at TEDME, e.g. "Single Choice" or you could ask the question verbally so that your visitors automatically choose one of three answer options and type it in.
Test whether your stand visitors or your presentation audience were attentive
Are you giving a presentation at your trade fair stand? Or on the organiser's stage at the trade fair? Then use a TEDME word cloud to find out what the audience particularly remembered or liked. If possible, allow "whole phrases" as an answer option here too. This simply makes it more meaningful.
You can also have your trade fair visitors summarise a presentation in this way. You can announce and communicate this quite openly: "Today we want to summarise the most important points as a graphic. Tell us briefly what was particularly important to you."
How to integrate TEDME's word clouds into your trade fair stand
It's so easy to integrate word clouds at your next trade fair stand or stage:
- Create a question of the type "word cloud" in TEDME.
- Publish the link to the survey or a QR code.
- Let visitors scan the QR code.
- They can then type in their answers.
You can insert the word cloud directly into your website as a subpage via iframe.
This keeps all trade fair visitors and voters on your website and thus in your branded environment. At TEDME, this function is called "co-moderation". It ensures that none of your visitors enter unobjective or critical terms, which would then be immediately visible on the screen. But even if this happens once because you have not activated this intermediate check, you can always delete all posts in the backend and thus prevent shitstorms and the like.
This is what a TEDME survey can look like:
By the way: At our customer Rossmann, which asked its trade fair visitors for sustainable ideas at its stand at the "Ideenexpo", we made sure that there was always a member of staff at the stand to look after the word clouds.
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