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2025-10-17

Digital feedback tools vs. sticky notes: What's more honest?

Fellow public speakers, conference session hosts and everyone in between,

I have a concern / question. I'm torn between capturing feedback with a tool like Talkadot or using a good old feedback wall after as sessions.

What I have observed with Talkadot :
👍 Is very easy to setup and for people to use
👍 Gives a very clear summary, with scores easy to understand that you can share on social media and to the conference organizers
but
👎 It feels like people's feedback is less "genuine" - like they know you'll publish it online, so they give the highest score because hey, people are nice
👎 It also feels like a smaller ratio of the audience is responding - if only the overly satisfied people reply, it clearly biases the results

While the old sticky note feedback wall
👎 gives a less clear image of the overall satisfaction
👍 but seems more accessible to people

Do you share similar views (namedropping incoming), Artur Margonari 🎤Chris Stone Jord Rolland de Rengervé ⭐️ Rachel Dubois ⭐️Koen Vastmans Sven Cipido Evelien Acun-Roos Sarah Siebel-Janssen Linda van de Gevel - Hakkens Erica Engelen Allen Jellas Fred Deichler 🎤 Lori Robertson Maarten Dalmijn Dorsey Standish? Or maybe I should rethink how I'm doing it? Happy to hear about your best tips here 💡

Thanks!

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Do you want vanity feedback or do you want real feedback? That is the difference for me.

And to be honest, sharing 100% satisfaction scores (or even 95%, 90%) makes me feel something is off. I have never been in any talk where everybody was 100% happy about the talk. And that is normal, people are different, that is OK, you cannot satisfy everybody.

But hey, keep sharing the offline poster as well, I always like when my artwork shows somewhere (the poster, not the post-its 👏 )

Dimitri

My preference is sticky notes, it may be a bit more work for the particpants but to my opinion that will result in a more honest answer. And the pro's : easy setup? paper on the wall en stickies is much easier than installing app/ copying QR code not knowing what will happen with the data etc.

Peter

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