Google Moderator Puts Social-Media Twist on Meetings

September 30th, 2008

Google has launched a free Web-based service to help organizations streamline question-and-answer sessions during large meetings. Dubbed Moderator, the tool lets group members submit questions to the meeting leaders, then vote for or against the questions they like or don’t like. The Moderator can then choose the most popular questions.The goal for Moderator is to improve on the familiar “raise your hand” method of questions and answers in group settings, and to get the most out of the time allotted for the session.

Google engineer Taliver Heath designed the program during his “20 percent time.” A “20 percent project” is a Google philosophy that allows employees to spend one day a week working on something not in the regular job description.

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