Live events are returning - much to the delight of many participants and organisers. However, the world has continued to turn over the last two years and is no longer as we knew it until 2019. This also has an impact on on-site events and the way you organise them. Read this blog post to find out why you need a digital voting tool for live events and why surveys and polls on paper or rented hardware are often only the second-best solution.
Increased energy prices make the transport of material goods more expensive
Those who do not yet use a digital voting tool often conduct surveys and votes using voting machines or paper and paper ballots. However, the recent rise in energy and petrol prices has made the transport of voting machines enormously more expensive. Even if the price of energy should fall again due to a war in Europe that will hopefully end soon, one thing is already clear today: energy and transport resources are scarce commodities. In the long term, prices for these will rise instead of falling. Therefore, digitise everything that can be digitised in good conscience. This includes digital voting tools. Especially if they can be used to set up and implement fully GDPR-compliant voting, as is the case with TEDME.
Digital voting tool instead of paper sheets
Have you also noticed this? There is a paper shortage in Germany, and not just since health insurance companies were supposed to implement compulsory vaccination, but much earlier. According to a survey by the Ifo Institute, 92.4 per cent of manufacturers of printed products reported a shortage of materials in February 2022. This situation is getting worse. Among other things, because the paper mills themselves are experiencing major problems as suppliers. 78.7 per cent suffered from a shortage of raw materials in February. Source: Wirtschaftswoche
You should therefore rely on digital solutions for your events in good time, including a digital voting tool. You will then no longer be fuelling the paper crisis and can focus on what really counts at your events: Your guests.
Simply become more efficient with a digital voting tool
Anyone who still prints and distributes feedback forms from their events on paper and then has them typed up by colleagues or interns is wasting a lot of valuable resources. On the one hand, this can be done much more quickly and cheaply with a digital voting tool and, on the other, it is often not much fun for those who are then allowed to type up the results for you.
The situation is similar for general meetings and all votes and elections: With a digital voting tool, you receive the results quickly and reliably and they are also documented in a legally compliant manner. If you still count the cards raised at every physical general meeting, the voting processes will take much longer and at the same time exclude participants from home offices from the elections and votes.
A digital voting tool also involves online participants
Speaking of participants from home offices: With a digital voting tool, you can involve all participants in your voting processes. Regardless of whether they are on site, at another location in your organisation or participating from home. If all participants use the same digital voting tool, all results flow into a data pool in real time. You can display these results on the screen in real time and also show them live to online participants. Maximum transparency and maximum participation rate.
A digital voting tool lets you appear as a modern organiser
Move with the times and present yourself to your employees, your customers and your target group as a modern organiser. This also includes the use of a digital voting tool. This increases confidence in your event concept and your surveys and encourages your audience to actively participate in your event or your surveys.
Did you know that you can also use the digital voting tool from TEDME to
Conclusion
A digital voting tool has numerous advantages over traditional voting devices, printed feedback forms or paper ballot papers. Especially at a time when resources such as paper and energy are becoming increasingly scarce. You remain independent of their development and can save valuable resources - including your own time.
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