We all wish our office parties were as cool as the huge year-end bash at KNEIP! Months before the party starts, small teams of staffers start working on epic music videos for the big night. Then everyone comes together for a night of food, drinks, raging fun, and of course the all-important vote for the People’s Choice Music Video.

 

KNEIP provides solutions to asset managers and administrators that help them manage their fund data, reporting, and regulatory filing. Their company thrives on a spirit of teamwork and fresh thinking – which can be challenging,considering KNEIP employs 250 diverse professionals in five different countries and six locations: Luxembourg, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Lausanne, and London.

KNEIP directors make a concerted effort to create a collaborative environment that fosters innovative ideas. They go the extra mile to keep a positive atmosphere with a creative, colorful workspace, hallways adorned with engaging pop art, and memorable company events.

As you can imagine, the year-end party is a big deal at KNEIP. It is one of the few times the entire company gathers in a single location. Employees look forward to the festivities for months. In 2013, the party took place at the Centre Drosbach in Luxembourg. The MTV-style Video Music Awards were the highlight of the evening. All the music videos employees  worked so hard to create in the months before are put on display and pitted against each other. Employees name the People’s Choice Music Video by way of popular vote.

Troy Bankhead, in charge of Marketing and Communication, decided to use Poll Everywhere to conduct the vote this year.  Troy had used other polling services in the past, but said Poll Everywhere stood out with a snazzier interface and remarkable ease of use. “The A/V guys were able to program the display software to display the Poll Everywhere webpage, and I was able to sit at my dinner table with my friends, and control the poll display with my iPhone. It was too cool.” He was even able to catch and fix a last minute oversight: in the last three minutes before the poll went live,  he quickly reset the response limit from unlimited to one per guest, right there at his table.

Poll Everywhere partners with Twilio to provide 17 international numbers to enable easy SMS voting from around the world. The international numbers allowed KNEIP employees to vote using SMS, no matter where their cell service was based… whether Luxembourg, Germany, France, Brussels, or England. The guests each dialed their regional number to cast votes by SMS.  Troy enabled voting via Twitter as well making it even easier for employees who tweet.

The video contest powered by polling was a huge hit! With all the talent and pageantry on display, employees saw their colleagues in a completely different light. Who knew the IT department had moves like that? People got up and cheered as they watched the bar graph update with live results during the vote. In the end, the team from Sales reigned champions with their perfectly titled video “Sales Queens,” though clearly the IT department’s “Naughty Nature” won some fans.

 

“We’re gonna use Poll Everywhere again this year,” Troy declared. “It’s perfect for this kind of event.”

If you have to get real time feedback from an international audience from a single location or spread across the globe – get in touch with us! We want your next event to be just as smooth and successful as Troy’s was.