When hosting a seminar or conference it's extremely valuable to engage the audience in real-time feedback.  Whether in the form of voting for their favorite presentation or submitting real time questions, utilizing current technology allows the audience to become active participants rather than just attendees.

It used to be cumbersome, as well as expensive, to rent the basic hand held voting devices. A company called Busy Event has come out with a number of solutions, at a great price point, allowing your audience to engage with the speaker.  With the "BeLink" product your attendees contact information as well as all sessions are part of their profile.  When attendees download presentations or answer survey questions you know exactly who is sending the information.  As a conference producer you can chose to display survey results instantly on the stage or save the data for later analysis.  There are few things more valuable than instant feedback.

Kudos to Busy Event for coming up with so many useful tools for conference organizers.  Check out their site for product demos and other helpful event tools.