Alex Lindahl over at CollegeMogul.com “witnessed the excitement of Poll Everywhere, an inexpensive audience response system,” when he attended the MIT 100K Audience Choice Awards. It’s great to hear from Alex on his observations of how the audience became really engaged and excited to participate in the poll. Receiving just a small bit of feedback (even in the form of a vote on a poll) from individual people at an event captures people’s attention and keeps them really interested.

According to Alex, “they [the audience] wanted to know who would win the prize and if they had voted for the team that was everyone else’s favorite too. They were too eager to know and it drove them crazy. They loved it.”

Thanks, Alex, for volunteering to share your thoughts.