Thanks to my friend Lex from LA I was introduced to 'Opinionaided.com' which is a really neat little app / website that allows you to ask a question to everyone on the network and they can flash-vote on it.
All you need to do are put in questions, add a photo and almost instantaneously there is a vote result. Like... AMAZING. This is like a real-time pulse survey to the public.
I quickly fired off many questions but the one that I wanted to poll most was 'Do you read Blogs?'. I've posted that at the same time as today's post and will have the results for you tomorrow.
This brings about the questions as to whether surveys are useful tools. I know we covered off in my MBA classes that they weren't that useful unless the survey was targeted to a market segment. That seems sensible. The way crowd sourcing gets around this is that it asks you to categorise your question into buckets or categories.
The genius of the application comes as it is inherently social. People with common questions and answers can start a conversation based on the content - and it's a great way to interact with people on a meaningful level.
With facebook and twitter linkages it is an absolutely necessary tool in any entrepreneur's bag of tricks!
Thanks Lex for the tip! Now you all know too ;-)
Jono
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All you need to do are put in questions, add a photo and almost instantaneously there is a vote result. Like... AMAZING. This is like a real-time pulse survey to the public.
This brings about the questions as to whether surveys are useful tools. I know we covered off in my MBA classes that they weren't that useful unless the survey was targeted to a market segment. That seems sensible. The way crowd sourcing gets around this is that it asks you to categorise your question into buckets or categories.
The genius of the application comes as it is inherently social. People with common questions and answers can start a conversation based on the content - and it's a great way to interact with people on a meaningful level.
With facebook and twitter linkages it is an absolutely necessary tool in any entrepreneur's bag of tricks!
Thanks Lex for the tip! Now you all know too ;-)
Jono
What's Up Jono | Virtual Coffee Chats
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