This document discusses TexttheMob, an online tool that allows users to create polls and message boards to gather opinions from large groups of people easily and quickly. It explains that TexttheMob can be used by organizations, companies, schools, and individuals for educational, professional, and political purposes. Some key features of TexttheMob mentioned are that it is accessible online at all times, allows users to collect feedback during presentations, and displays instant results to users.
2. Outline
• What are polls and message boards?
• Important issues about TexttheMob:
I. What is TexttheMob?
II. How to use TexttheMob?
• People who useTexttheMob.
• Reasons for using TexttheMob.
• Some of it’s features.
• Bibliography.
3. What are polls and message boards ?
Polls are also called opinion polls. Its purpose is
to gather public opinions from a group of people.
Message boards are also called discussion boards.
You can write something and then expect people
to respond.
5. What is TexttheMob ?
• It is an online tool to create polls and
message boards to gather opinions from a
large group of people in an easy way that
saves time.
6. How to use TexttheMob?
1. Registering to TexttheMob.
2. Launching a poll or a message board.
7. People who use this tool.
• Organization and companies such as managers and
employees.
• People in schools and universities such as
teachers, faculty and students.
8. The reasons for using this tool.
• Educational and professional purposes:
- students use for researches such as providing statistics.
- Used for customer review in some companies.
• Politics:
- presidential elections.(determines the country’s president)
- Federal National Council elections in the UAE.
(determines the members of the FNC)
9. Its features (Why is it different?)
• It is accessible online all the time.
• You can collect feedback while
presenting or giving a lecture.
• The audience can respond via
: SMS or Mobile web.
• You can see instant results.
• Free registering.
• Filter for bad words.
10. Bibliography
TextTheMob. (2008-10). Retrieved April 13, 2012, from textthemob: http://www.textthemob.com/home
gfoxtrot.blogpost.com. (2011, January 23). Retrieved April 10, 2012, from gfoxtrot.globspot:
http://gfoxtrot.blogspot.com/2011/01/your-vote-counts.html
payvad. (2012, July 20). Retrieved April 10, 2012, from payvad:
http://payvand.com/blog/blog/2010/08/09/2010-arab-public-opinion-poll-views-on-united-
states-israel-and-iran/
quicktopic. (2012). Retrieved April 10, 2012, from quicktopic: http://www.quicktopic.com/
survey software reviews. (2012, February 21). Retrieved April 10, 2012, from survey-reviews:
http://www.survey-reviews.net/
people and participation.net. (n.d.). Retrieved April 13, 2012, from people and participation:
http://www.peopleandparticipation.net/display/Methods/Opinion+Polls
Rouse, Margaret; Wigmore, Ivy;. (199). Whatis. Retrieved April 13, 2012, from Whatis:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci211961,00.html