Government Case Studies

Explore our unique government case studies below.

BIPAC

TurningPoint interactive presentations encourage voting in elections.

The Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC) is designed to encourage businesses and their employees to vote and become more involved in the election process. TurningPoint's ability to collect anonymous responses from interactive presentations helped BIPAC facilitate specialized discussions on critical and sometimes sensitive electoral subjects.
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Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

TurningPoint provides instant collection of opinions for community planning decisions.

While the concept of using audience response technology appealed to CMAP, its first system was clunky and hard to manage. After suggesting an upgrade, CMAP now regularly uses TurningPoint in its meetings to reveal community interests and make decisions based on the needs of its citizens.
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City of Hampton, VA

TurningPoint provides citizen insight during budget process.

In order to make community-endorsed budget decisions, the City of Hampton, VA wanted a quick and easy way to tabulate votes during public meetings. Instead of voting with paper dots and stickers or filling out surveys, TurningPoint audience response was used. With the new technology, participation in the outreach meetings increased exponentially.
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D.J. Case & Associates

TurningPoint gathers audience feedback and immediately displays results to set priorities and next steps.

Communications firm D.J. Case & Associates (DJ Case) specializes in helping conservation and natural resource agencies solve problems through systematic thinking and clear communication. DJ Case uses TurningPoint to help identify key conservation issues, set priorities, and determine next steps in complex communication processes.
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Hidalgo County

Uses ResponseWare during live event to gather community opinions.

Hidalgo County is a quickly growing community in Texas. In order to ensure economic development in the coming years, community leaders gathered residents together during a live event to vote on direction of the county. Other residents watched a public access broadcast and voted via the web. TurningPoint and ResponseWare were selected to gather data during the session, providing detailed reports for further analysis.
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McAllen Image Public Workshop

Using ResponseWare^™ for simultaneous live, television and webcasts events.

Brian Godinez of Godinez Communications was tasked with creating an interactive voting environment that incorporated live, television and webcast events for the City of McAllen's Image Public Workshop. Fortunately for Brian and the City of McAllen, Texas, Turning's web-based polling application, ResponseWare could easily handle all three of these requests.
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Trust for Public Land

TurningPoint allows for real-time scenarios to come to life with integration into GIS mapping software.

The Trust for Public Land’s (TPL) Greenprint process involved using a paper or “thumbs-up” method to vote on community goals that would directly affect the areas of land targeted for conservation efforts. Looking for more efficient means of voting, Turning Technologies' audience response was selected and integrated with mapping software for real-time results.
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USDA National Research Initiative

TurningPoint collects honest, anonymous feedback instantly.

Catherine Keske is the principal investigator on a national research initiative, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. When questioning Colorado mountain communities about their preferences for economic development, she used TurningPoint to gather anonymous opinions.
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City of Vancouver, WA

TurningPoint allows for instant, anonymous public input for community decisions.

In order to gather public opinion and conduct training, the City of Vancouver, WA had been using a variety of inefficient methods prior to discovering audience response. Once the system was implemented, participants felt at ease to provide answers and were meeting objectives were more easily met.
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