SurveyGizmo is proud to partner with South By Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, TX to bring real-time, online evaluations to the conference for the first time ever. The new tool rate.sxsw.com will allow SXSW to manage the evaluations of over 300 sessions and an audience of 4,000. From the attendee’s perspective they can manage which sessions they are attending and what they have and haven’t evaluated yet. They can also see how their evaluations stack up against the average of other participants. The Rate application is available online now and can be accessed via web browser* or mobile devices like iPhones (Blackberry support coming in a couple days.)
*Currently optimized for FireFox, Safari, and Opera web browsers.
The Rate tool allows sessions to be tracked into a personal list of what you have attended as well as what sessions you have and haven’t evaluated yet. Users can also access session descriptions, room locations, Austin convention center maps, and lists of speakers.
Bonus Feature for Live Bloggers
SXSW Interactive attendees are a pretty digitally connected bunch as conferences go. There is quite a bit of live blogging going on at the event. People are writing their thoughts in real-time about what they’re seeing into their blog while sitting in the audience. So we added a widget that tracks the sessions in your personal list and the average rating of all attendees. The widget is powered by Javascript that can be dropped into your blog article so your readers can see what your attending. Here’s an example.
The rate.sxsw.com application also let’s attendees to contribute public or private polls to find the zeitgeist of the moment on any topic. We hope there will be polls created about SXSW panels, parties or where to go to lunch with your friends.
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