We all know the business-as-usual town hall meeting: Some experts talk a lot and during the 5 minutes allocated to public feedback or Q&A the most vocal members of the audience - often fundamentalists, completely captivated by their own agenda - get up to talk while the rest is left without a say. And while technology can't change the way those meetings happen , a lot of the progressive leaders we've met over the past are willing to reconsider. Not only them, but grassroots campaigns, community organizers or activists would all benefit from a simple way to collect feedback from large audiences. This is where TextTheMob.com comes to play: TextTheMob.com is a feedback tool for town hall meetings, conferences, workshops, campaigns etc. It enables users to collect feedback (polls and messages) from their audience via mobile phone. Responses are displayed on a screen or monitor in real-time.
While our tool itself doesn't make the world a better place, it's built to give the people that do a tool to easily harvest and act upon the wisdom of their crowds.