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Our guest today is Johnny Warstr\\xf6m, the CEO of Mentimeter, which is a tool that can help you make presentations, workshops, and meetings more interactive.

Here\'s a link:\\xa0https://www.mentimeter.com/

The tool lets you take a live poll of your audience, and the results get updated real-time in your presentation. The audience doesn\\u2019t need any special hardware \\u2013 just a phone or any other device connected to the Internet.

When I interviewed Johnny, I had not yet used the tool.\\xa0

I just got back from facilitating a professional development event with about 25 independent consultants where I tried Mentimeter for the first time, and it was a massive hit.

Some of the attendees said that Mentimeter was their number one takeaway!

We\\u2019d be having a facilitated discussion and presenting regular slides, and the attendees were engaged, but you could see the energy in the room starting to flag.

And then we\\u2019d get to a place with a Mentimeter survey, and, Bam!, the room came alive. Out came everyone\\u2019s phones, and you\\u2019d see the responses coming in on the screen, and people were looking up to see how their response compared to everyone else\\u2019s \\u2013 it was awesome.

I can\\u2019t imagine doing a presentation in the future to a larger group without including a few Mentimeter surveys.

I\\u2019ll also say the tool is incredibly easy to set up.\\xa0 I had put it off for a week, because of the activation energy involved in learning some new piece of software. I shouldn\\u2019t have worried.

If you can drag and drop, you can have a Mentimeter survey ready in about 60 seconds.

One tip: while most of the survey templates are quantitative, do try out the \\u201cOpen-ended\\u201d question type, in which respondents can type in free text. It is very cool to see all the responses popping up on your screen up in front.

You might start a meeting by asking, using Mentimeter, \\u201cwhat are you hoping to get out of today\\u2019s session?\\u201d

Or you might end your meeting by asking, \\u201cWhat is your key takeaway from today\\u2019s session?\\u201d or \\u201cWhat was most valuable to you from today\\u2019s session?\\u201d

The tool allows you to export all the responses, in either Excel or PDF format, so you can use in later analyses or presentations.

Mentimeter has 16 million users \\u2013 I\\u2019m one of them.\\xa0 I do encourage you to check it out and try it in your next meeting.