Zeetings is a new tool to interact with your audience and track their
engagement. Despite the fact that we’ve got completely new capabilities in
our hands in terms of technology, presentations haven’t really changed.
We’re stuck with this one-way paradigm, where someone stands in front of
a room and talks at a group of people.
Here a “zeeting” to show off the zeetings approach. Zeetings can be conducted remotely or in-person. Beta users included Deloitte, eBay and HP. Here's a sample zeeting created around a discussion with Irene Au from Khosla Ventures. It isn’t meant to replace presentation
tools like PowerPoint. Instead, it adds the interactivity to existing
presentation formats; many users still build their presentations in
PowerPoint, then upload and share them on Zeetings.
To
start things off, you can run through the usual set of slides outlining
the vision, but then mix things up by asking your audience to
participate in polls, and by starting group and one-on-one chats. There
is also a section where you could take your own notes. Then, at the end a
the presentation, you can ask to give the zeeting a rating between one
and five stars.
You can use Zeetings “in the superficial way,” but the
early beta customers have found more meaningful uses, like polling
attendees at the beginning and end of a presentation to see if their
minds have been changed, or using anonymous polling to get more honest
answers around sensitive issues like mental health. Interactivity is
important because you’re usually fighting for an audience’s attention. Plus, by tracking engagement (the metrics
include copies requested, meetings requested, votes cast and the
aforementioned star rating), presenters can create a “virtuous cycle,”
where the data gives them a better sense of how to engage their
audience, allowing them to improve their presentations, which in turn
helps them collect more data.
Try Zeetings out for free to see what an impact it has on your next meeting!
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